>> 1) gstreamer 1.0 support in Activies. The 0.10 series is well and >> truly dead and unmaintained, but there's a couple of key Activities >> that still depend on it. Clock and Record are the two big ones here. >> Are there any plans to move them to gst1? > > They were moved. Check the release announcements and the tarball > directories. > > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Clock/Clock-20.tar.bz2
Ha, already have that, will review packaging and make sure it's all right. > http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/Record/Record-200.tar.bz2 Awesome! This makes me happy, thanks! >> 2) GTK2 sugar-toolkit, again a number of Activities still haven't >> moved to gtk3, any plans? > > Yes. We have a contributor working on that now, so please make sure > we know which ones Fedora think are still GTK+ 2. Time critical. > >> 3) eToys, we've not shipped this by default for some time, I plan on >> retiring it and any of it's dependencies in Fedora 29. Good riddance >> sugar-presence-service! > > I've no news on this one. Best to contact Etoys project. They stopped responding years ago, they never even got around to removing the presence-server dep. I've retired it now. >> 4) This is the big one... python2. With python2 being EOL real soon >> now is there any interest in moving to py3, I know there was some work >> years ago to do some readiness here with the move to gtk3 but I don't >> remember the details. Fedora is actively moving to python3 and has >> been for some years, I think for at least 6 releases it's been >> possible to run without py2 installed at all. Is this the nail in the >> coffin for Sugar? > > Our port to Python 3 is going well. We have good working code in pull > requests and branches, and plan to merge it once we have the critical > components complete. Our plan is in the GitHub projects tab for the > organisation. Awesome news! Is there a rough timeline for this? > Your downstream transition plan can be one of; > > - package sugar-toolkit-gtk3 as both Python 2 and Python 3, so that > Python 3 activities can be packaged, and so that Python 2 packages > you have now need not be rushed into Python 3, We'll likely take this option and then drop the py2 once there's no longer any dependencies. > - package sugar-toolkit-gtk3 as only Python 3, and make sure all your > Python 2 activity packages are either dropped or ported to Python 3. > >> Also with my note above about time and the points in between are there >> still people interested in Sugar on Fedora? Anyone interested enough >> to assist? > > I agree, downstreams need help, it's a big job to keep this > maintained. Do let me know if you know of people that are interested, the more the merrier and I'm happy to assist with Mentoring. Peter _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel