On Wed, 7 May 2008 21:34:15 +0200 Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 07.05.2008, at 19:54, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Bert Freudenberg > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 07.05.2008, at 19:36, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > >> > >>> I'm not really convinced it should be a separate build. Just ship > >>> a set of core activities and make it really easy to install new > >>> ones (we > >>> have already everything in place to do so). > >> > >> I hate the "core activities" idea. What are the core activities > >> for an > >> education machine? The activities that distinguish the XO from > >> all the > >> other laptops out there are regularly omitted from the "core". > >> Like in > >> the new olpc3 build (*). There is no technical reason for this, > >> and it > >> sends the wrong message. Unless someone wants to convey that this > >> is just another laptop project. > >> > >> - Bert - > >> > >> (*) http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/olpc3-pkgs.html > > > > Bert, the olpc3 branch has not been released yet and in fact doesn't > > even *boot* yet, as far as I know. It's where Dennis is working on > > FC9 stuff. etoys is not in the official Fedora repositories because > > of CLA issues, which we all understand, but to fault Dennis for not > > including something which is completely irrelevant to the FC9 > > porting work he is actually trying to do, and furthermore, to make > > this complaint against an *unreleased and unannounced testing > > build* which *doesn't even boot* -- this verges on paranoia. > > Please don't assume that OLPC is somehow conspiring against etoys! > > It is one of the most heavily used pieces of software in our > > deployments, as far as I can tell. > > Well, my trust in OLPC is being probed every other day. I take your > word, and I trust a few other people there, but I also have to > acknowledge that priorities at OLPC are changing. So much so that > some of the people I trusted most are leaving. > > And it's certainly no coincidence that the list of activities in > olpc3 is what Kim wanted in ticket 6598. You certainly remember the > discussions. > > We'll see. If this fear is unfunded, all the better. > Tee-hee; best Freudian slip of the week. By a guy named Freudenberg, no less! _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
