Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:24, Daniel Drake<[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas<[email protected]>: >>> Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an >>> "official" answer on this. Soon. >>> >>> Is the current SoaS going to be the primary way Sugar Labs distributes a >>> Sugar-centric GNU/Linux distribution? >> >> Isn't there a wider question first? the one that asks if Sugar Labs is >> actually interested in being a distributor rather than just an >> upstream. I raised that question in my recent discussion and my >> feeling is that the responses basically said "well we should really >> just focus on being an upstream since we already are overworked there, >> but actually Sugar Labs is just a platform where everyone interested >> in Sugar can get together and run Sugar-related projects" >> >> Based on that, I'd say that SoaS is a fine project to sit under Sugar >> Labs but there shouldn't be a "primary way" of getting Sugar. Like >> other upstream projects, Sugar Labs should work with multiple >> downstreams (treating them equally) in order to achieve wide adoption >> of the software. > > That matches quite well my personal point of view. I'm just a bit > concerned that the marketing team might need something like SoaS as > part of their job to make Sugar widely known. But I'm just guessing > here... > > That said, SoaS is very important for me as an upstream Sugar > developer because before we had it, people had to install a linux > distro or get an XO to try or test Sugar. So I have a big interest in > that SoaS work continue forward, in SLs if needed. > > Regards, > > Tomeu
Args! I notice that what I asked could have been misunderstood. I didn't mean to imply SoaS being only way of distributing Sugar. That's out of question and was never my intention. I apologize for any confusion if this feeling has been created. I wonder, though, if the current SoaS is going to be the primary LiveUSB distribution of Sugar supported by upstream (known as SoaS). Daniel, yes, I think this question needs to be asked. In fact, it has been asked. You mentioned it. Martin Dengler has pointed it out very clearly on IAEP just a day ago (while receiving no replies). I felt that this one question I asked implied it, but you're right. Tomeu, I agree, too. SoaS has started gaining foothold with it's (imo) very successful v1 launch. Now we need to continue following the path. The question is just where. --Sebastian _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
