On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> Is there a reason the new sugar can't go upstream into F-10? >>>>> >>>>> It's very unstable code and contains several big regressions, as of today. >>>>> >>>>> F-10 being on feature freeze, I guess it won't be allowed in. >>>> >>>> For distro packaging, we should focus only on the stable release >>>> branches: 0.82.x, and once it's out next year, 0.84.x. >>>> >>>> That said, we might package 0.83.x releases in debian unstable and >>>> thus ubuntu jaunty with a view to landing 0.84 without a large delta >>>> when it does release, because that might be after the ubuntu feature >>>> freeze. >>> >>> Cool, so sounds like something that will eventually be good to get >>> into rawhide then. >> >> Totally, perhaps someone would like to help us here? >> >> Normally, OLPC contractors will be updating the rpms in OLPC-4, and >> we'll try to maintain devel updated as well, though it's quite a bit >> of work. If someone wanted to take that work out from our shoulders, >> would be awesome. > > Yep, I can help out with that. I've been helping gregdek with getting > some of the OLPC changes upstream so as to get as much as possible > into mainline Fedora so the OLPC guys can concentrate on more > important stuff. I've got a list of most of the issues from 8.2 but > arrived on the scene a little late to have much impact there. So now > that we're rebasing to F-10 I'll be working to minimise the > requirement of package forks.
That sounds like music to my hears! I think that we are using #olpc-devel in OFTC to work on the F10 rebase, feel free to join us. About updating sugar in rawhide, perhaps you can just watch out the commits in the OLPC-4 branches and decide yourself when to update Rawhide? Thanks, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
