We had an IRC meeting yesterday (1 day after sugar camp!) to decide how to move forward with the decisions taken at Sugar Camp in the area of making packaging easier, performance better, testing easier, and volunteer support and QA attraction a more realistic process and approach. You can see the wiki entry discussed (ie. what was said at Sugar Camp) here:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Community/Distributions/OpenSUSE Though it mentions openSUSE it is really distro agnostic, its just that key members of the openSUSE team were at the IRC meeting to discuss the synching of jhconvert with oBS (openSUSE build service) so that we can totally automate the process from getting revisions of glucose, fructose, and some honey directly to all distros and platforms. That novelly (no pun intended) includes the ARM architecture for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and openSUSE. You can check the irc logs of what was discussed here if you have any interest: http://en.opensuse.org/Sugar/Meetings Other performance and testing automation includes better hardware for buildbot and the revival of the sugarbot project (an auto testing bot to some degree) though it was agreed at Sugar Camp that much more manual performance and security testing must be done, since its unrealistic to rely on automated tests only. Still, both Buildbot and Sugarbot are intesesting concepts and should help the process of the developers, triagers, and even QA people significantly. What we're doing goes a little bit against the policies of many distros, but remember we almost consider Sugar its own OS ;-) and distribution maintainers of Sugar are free to take the dsitributed source and build it all again if they really like. We are just making sure that Sugar IS available everywhere for everyone, and that it is not the distros deciding whether Sugar should be allowed in one version or another. We just want the best Sugar out there available to all. So distro maintainers of Sugar can either keep up with Sugar, or probably have their users ousing Sugar repos elsewhere........ I hope this doesn't start any rifts or flame wars, that was not my intention. As stated above, its just to get the best Sugar out there as quickly as possible to everyone in all formats.... kind Regards, David (Nubae) Van Assche _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel