On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:18 AM, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 04:34:08PM -0500, David Farning wrote: >> After a couple of eventful, and fruitful, weeks with XSCE, I would >> like to to clarify a few points where our message seemed to be >> unclear. >> >> -- Emphasis on small deployments. As a community, there is currently >> an emphasis towards small deployments. Due to their limited >> bureaucracies, we have been able to establish very quick turnaround >> times for feedback and fixes. This has enabled us to keep our rate of >> development quite high. >> >> The design and implementation of XSCE should scale from 1 school to >> 100,000 schools. There is currently an "Ansible rewrite" ( >> http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/ ) in process. We believes that the >> use of ansible as a configure management tool has the potential to >> reduce the maintenance required at large deployments. A team of >> developers at AC is working on this now with the goal of landing in >> the beginning of the 0.5 release cycle >> >> -- Emphasis on ARM. XSCE runs on any hardware which runs Fedora 18. >> The current releases heavily favored XOs because they were a logical >> starting point from a Quality Assurance perspective. Debugging is an >> order of magnitude easier when testers and developers are running the >> same equipment. Starting with XOs enabled us to focus on school server >> developments rather than hardware quirks. >> >> Each quarterly release we have added additional hardware types. This >> is allowing the project to scale gradually to more and more device >> types without overwhelming developers and testers. >> >> -- Core OS. The decisions to base on Fedora was not taken lightly. If >> we wanted to run on XO-4s we had to run on a recent Fedora. The second >> issue is the fact that most of the interesting low powered servers >> are ARM based. >> >> Moving forward, our goal is to use the flexibility of the ansible >> provisioning system to be able to configure XSCE on fedora and CentOS. >> On an interesting note, we have been contacted by a team of ARM on >> CentOS developers who offered to work with us to get CentOS a a couple >> of ARM based servers. >> >> -- Our goals is not to tell anyone what they should do. We have >> avoided discussions on public lists such as this to avoid the >> temptation for people to tell us what to do... or for us to tell them >> what to do. Instead, we have focused on adding value. >> >> We hope to add value to the ecosystem. We hope that adding value earns >> us influence. In exchange we invite people to participate in the XSCE >> project by adding value. That value will help them earn influence >> within the project. >> >> I hope this help clarify some of the issues that have come up over the >> past couple of days. > > Not really, since those issues mainly had to do with OLPC.
I am sorry. I don't have any first hand knowledge of the incident it Jamica. My interest in that incident was moving past blame to finding a way to move forward in a way which reduces that type of confusions in the future. Samuel's email combined with the wiki templates did that well > but I do > think your write-up could be better placed by merging it with the > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition article. +1. Now that we understand where we failed to communication effectively, we will try to take step to improve that communication. Those step will include improving the wiki. -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel