On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Erik > > I'm reaching out to Sugar (OLPC) activity authors and maintainers to > find out where things are at, and to try and improve communication in > the development community. We have some information to get out such as > API changes, ways to publish activities, etc and I'm trying to find > the best ways of getting information out to those who are interested. > > This is a personal mail, not autogenerated but I am sending a lot of > these out so please forgive some copy/pasting and generic > information... > > I would appreciate your answers to the following: > > * Are you the best contact for record? (I know Daniel Drake's been > working on it lately.) > - Are there any other developers / maintainers I should also contact?
While we have not been actively working on Record lately, we should be kept in the loop as we've a good sense as to why many things are built as they are. Our alias, [EMAIL PROTECTED], is a good contact. > * To which of the following mailing lists are you currently > subscribed, if any? (I'd prefer to avoid cross-posting technical info > to all lists, and some developers may no longer be on any of them...) > - [email protected] > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (formerly > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > - any other olpc or Sugar related lists? Yes, and yes, and yes, and yes. > * Are you aware of Sugar's new home at http://sugarlabs.org as an > upstream project? Yes, we've read about this plan. > * Are you aware that OLPC builds no longer contain any activities, but > do now have an easy way to install and update activities through the > control panel, provided you follow certain procedures in publishing > releases? Yes. > * Are you still maintaining your activity actively, occasionally, or not at all? Occasionally. > * If you are able to maintain it actively, we invite you to propose > your activity to be part of Fructose (see > http://sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy) and following the SugarLabs sucrose > release cycle: http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam#New_activities > > * If not, would you actively publish new releases if others sent you > patches, or would you prefer that someone else adopted maintaining it? > (And why are you no longer maintaining it?) For now, it might be best if someone else maintained this project day-to-day. We have plans for enhancements in the future we will contribute. > * What was the most recent OLPC build you tested your activity on? > - older than 650 ("Update.1") > - 650-656 > - 703 ("Update 1.1", or release 8.1.0) > - 708 (release 8.1.1) > - joyride 1xxx > - joyride 2xxx (specify if possible?) All of these. > * In what ways do you need assistance with continued > development/maintenance of your activity? Platform stability :-) > * How could we improve communication with activity authors? I think you are doing a good job.
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