[Sugar-devel] Sugar Advocacy for Arch Linux

[Srevin Saju]

Thanks for the feedback Alex, I actually put forward a suggestion to look
into interested candidates to this proposal, Yes, I indeed feel the same,
an educational organization is most likely to use Ubuntu or Fedora. I
actually meant testing the existing packages and moving it to the
`Community Arch Packages` if it works good, and downgrade the python2-gtk
version of sugar to the AUR. And yes, I agree all distros can be
customized. Thanks,

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 9:51 PM Alex Perez <aperez at alexperez.com> wrote:

> Srevin,
>
> I'm personally a fan of Arch Linux, but It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg
> problem, when we already don't have sufficient resources. While I welcome
> testing of Sugar on Arch, I don't think it makes sense for us to direct
> existing resources there, unless there's a demonstrable reason why it's
> necessary, or even directly beneficial. I would personally rather see Sugar
> Labs direct more focus on maintaining tested and good packages for
> Debian/Ubuntu, and Fedora, given that we know we have users there.
>
> All distributions can be relatively easily customized, so I'm not
> particularly swayed by the argument that Arch serves customization any
> better than any other distribution, frankly. I also suspect that most
> schools that choose to use Linux are likely using one of the more popular,
> mainstream distros, such as Ubuntu or Debian, possibly Fedora. Regardless,
> anyone is free to contribute as they choose, but asking us to focus efforts
> to $favoritePreferredDistro doesn't necessarily serve to benefit the
> community as a whole.
>
> Regards,
> Alex Perez
>
> Srevin Saju <srevin03 at gmail.com>
> February 4, 2020 at 8:17 AM
> I have noticed the GSoC projects for Ubuntu and Fedora, however, it would
> be nice to have Sugar tested on Arch Linux also, as part of GSoC. Currently
> we have only 1 tester for Arch, viz, Markimus, on the AUR. Testing on Arch
> Linux or Mankato, would help to also include Manjaro with Sugar DE
> distributions, moreover, Arch serves customisation, which a bigger
> organization can use, if they would like to use Sugar for students. This is
> only a suggestion. thanks.
>
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