Hi All, On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]> wrote: > El Wed, 19-05-2010 a las 21:09 -0300, Daniel Drake escribió: >> On 19 May 2010 20:45, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Why not shift the XO-1 users and deployments onto 0.88? >> >> You're talking about a huge amount of work here, with only a small >> amount of community resources working directly on XO1. And we've >> already seen a handful of issues on the list which will generate >> difficulties once 0.88 starts running on XOs. > > I'll probably change your mind this week-end when I'll show you how the > 0.88 build is coming along :-) > > >> Backporting mesh support will be quite easy. I speak from experience >> because I already did it on the near-final patches. > > I agree. There are also several very other useful features which would > be easy to backport to 0.84, one at a time: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Notes > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Notes > > If you have a feeling of deja-vu while going through these release > notes, it's because we've *already* backported half of the 0.86/0.88 new > features. > > Except for the new activity toolbars, the core code of Sugar did not > change much between 0.84 and 0.88, which is why backporting patches is > so easy and upgrading altogether ended up being quite painless in > practice. > > >> Even if an 0.88 upgrade happens, backporting deployment-important new >> developments will still be required (especially if they solve feature >> regressions) because 0.88 is no longer the tip of development. > > True, but it's much closer to it. I think staying close to upstream is > an important step in lowering the barrier for collaboration between > deployments and Sugar Labs.
Agree with Bernie here, can't wait to test 0.88 for XO-1. > (besides this particular one, there are probably other significant > barriers to collaboration; we'll try to discuss and address all of them) > > -- > // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ > \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
