Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.84 maintenance

2009-12-07 Thread Walter Bender
Christian is in the process of pulling together an inaugural edition of the Sugar Journal. It will include articles teachers, developers, etc. It would be nice to include some representation from the activity team. I was think of two different types of articles: a featured activity, where there is

Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.84 maintenance

2009-12-07 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 12/07/2009 12:26 AM, Walter Bender wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Tomeu, On 6 Dec 2009, at 21:19, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: 2009/12/1 Daniel Draked...@laptop.org: Also on this topic - we will certainly run into issues where activities

Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.84 maintenance

2009-12-06 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2009/12/1 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: Hi, Earlier this year, OLPC began developing a new laptop (XO-1.5) and OLPC OS (based on Fedora 11). Sugar-0.84 was hot off the presses at that time so even though it may feel a little dated today, it's what we've been working with and will soon be

Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.84 maintenance

2009-12-06 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 6 Dec 2009, at 21:19, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: 2009/12/1 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: Also on this topic - we will certainly run into issues where activities themselves progress beyond the Sugar-0.84 platform; if activity authors could work to minimize these cases (i.e. keep

Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.84 maintenance

2009-12-06 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Hi Tomeu, On 6 Dec 2009, at 21:19, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: 2009/12/1 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: Also on this topic - we will certainly run into issues where activities themselves progress beyond the Sugar-0.84

Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.84 maintenance

2009-12-06 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: I think this is a current policy of the activity team? The word policy seems a little official, but yes, I'd certainly not want one of the

[Sugar-devel] 0.84 maintenance

2009-12-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Earlier this year, OLPC began developing a new laptop (XO-1.5) and OLPC OS (based on Fedora 11). Sugar-0.84 was hot off the presses at that time so even though it may feel a little dated today, it's what we've been working with and will soon be shipping in large quantity. One issue that

Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.84 maintenance

2009-12-01 Thread Simon Schampijer
On 12/01/2009 06:41 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Earlier this year, OLPC began developing a new laptop (XO-1.5) and OLPC OS (based on Fedora 11). Sugar-0.84 was hot off the presses at that time so even though it may feel a little dated today, it's what we've been working with and will soon be

Re: [Sugar-devel] 0.84 maintenance

2009-12-01 Thread Walter Bender
Kudos Daniel. Re the lack of maintenance of 0.84, as Simon pointed out, are ranks are thin. But also, I am curious as to where 0.84 is being used in the field. Are any of the major (or even minor) deployments using it? I ask because I still wonder whether or not it wouldn't be easier to backport