On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Daniel Narvaez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > we already had a bit of discussion on what 0.100 should focus on in > the schedule thread. I'll try to summarize it here. > > IMPORTANT: the consensus seems to be that we should be having the > discussion about features early this cycle, to try and narrow the > scope of the release as much as possible. So here is your chance to > propose features, there won't be a feature acceptance deadline later. > > * Simon proposed that we make html5 activities the main focus of the > release and people responded favorably (do you think that's a bad > idea? Please speak up!). We need to articulate better what this > involves exactly, which new glucose components will have to be > developed, which activities. There as been some experimentation but > there is more left to do, the initial part of the cycle will involve > research. > > * Ajay proposed a couple of features which has been delayed from > previous cycles. > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multi_selection > > There is some concern that it might be too big of a change. We should > probably decide on the base of the patches that Ajay will be sending > out soon. > > I hope everyone considers that the journal-multi-selection feature has passed through several iterations of design and code review already. This a great improvement to journal's usability and is already being used in the ground. It was a joint effort between many SL community members since EduJAM 2011, so I think there should be a consensus towards accepting it. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/3G_Support/Database_Support > > It seems to be ready to go in. > > * Walter proposed a few other features which went already through > several reviews (do we have feature pages for these perhaps?) > > - homeview background image > I know, at first hand, that Caacupe (Paraguay) kids will be more than happy with this ^. We should support also features that makes Sugar more enjoyable to it's users. > - multi-homeview > - webservices > - comment field in journal detail view > > We should also keep in mind that webservices can offer a lot of utilities for deployments in the near future, and it will give Sugar a another way to expand its capabilities without "writing-from-scratch" everything. > So 0.100 seems to be shaping up as a release devoted mainly to html5 > activities, while landing a few features which are almost ready. What > does everyone think about that? > > -- > Daniel Narvaez > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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