Re: [IAEP] Who determines what version of Sugar is used in the field?
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 13:02, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote: (from the last SLOBs agenda-kickin', http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-July/011343.html) Question from Kevin Mark: Who should be the deciding organization for who determines what version of sugar is used in the field? I was confused about the hierarchy of who should be the deciding organization for who determines what version of sugar is used in the field. There are more than 500,000 users and many people outside of OLPC and Sugar Labs that will have to support that choice (of using 0.88) as well as the support that OLPC and Sugar Labs in Boston and elsewhere will have to provide. I dont know how a new 3rd party like Activity Central is involved in this and what role they should be taking as they are untested and lacking the kind of resouces that OLPC and Sugar Labs have at the moment. Mel's response: To me, this is very clear - SL decides what version(s) of Sugar it will support, and deployments will decide what version(s) of Sugar they will use. Deployments don't have to use the supported version of Sugar, they just won't get support from SL if they do. :) And others (deployments or third-party entities) may step up to offer support for versions SL itself does not support. Your thoughts? I think it's worth making explicit that the resources spent by SLs on supporting a specific version are likely to come from deployments, even if this activity happens inside SLs. This implies that deployments will have a critical voice in what is considered supported or not. Regards, Tomeu --Mel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Who determines what version of Sugar is used in the field?
(from the last SLOBs agenda-kickin', http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-July/011343.html) Question from Kevin Mark: Who should be the deciding organization for who determines what version of sugar is used in the field? I was confused about the hierarchy of who should be the deciding organization for who determines what version of sugar is used in the field. There are more than 500,000 users and many people outside of OLPC and Sugar Labs that will have to support that choice (of using 0.88) as well as the support that OLPC and Sugar Labs in Boston and elsewhere will have to provide. I dont know how a new 3rd party like Activity Central is involved in this and what role they should be taking as they are untested and lacking the kind of resouces that OLPC and Sugar Labs have at the moment. Mel's response: To me, this is very clear - SL decides what version(s) of Sugar it will support, and deployments will decide what version(s) of Sugar they will use. Deployments don't have to use the supported version of Sugar, they just won't get support from SL if they do. :) And others (deployments or third-party entities) may step up to offer support for versions SL itself does not support. Your thoughts? --Mel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Who determines what version of Sugar is used in the field?
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Mel Chua m...@melchua.com wrote: Mel's response: To me, this is very clear - SL decides what version(s) of Sugar it will support, and deployments will decide what version(s) of Sugar they will use. Exactly. That's a huge part of the Free in FOSS. We can all stand on top of a mountain and declare that people should run X, Y or Z software. But deployments take their own decisions. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
