On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Jonathan Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings > > Below is a summary of what we discussed during tonight's Edubuntu > meeting. If anything is missing or if you have any questions, feel > free to reply to this thread.
Nifty. <snip> > * We're losing our sugar packages, see: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-devel/2009-December/003194.html I don't think Edubuntu is loosing much here both in the case of Squeak and Sugar. For Squeak the reason packages are being dropped is that we used different naming conventions before Debian packaged Squeak. So Ubuntu is just dropping the old, deprecated package names. As for Sugar, the Ubuntu Sugar team had packaged up a whole bunch of the individual activities. Debian and upstream Sugar didn't like the idea of shipping those and would like distros to ship just the core Sugar components and have users get the activities themselves. At least that was the situation last I heard. I didn't see any mentions of 2 areas that I think are the most important for 10.04, bugs and package selections. If 10.04 is really to be a milestone, "this is what you want to use" release then there really should be a big focus on bugs. Related to that, if a package is just not gonna make it because of bugginess, it needs to get dropped from the package selection. It looks like both gpaint and qcad (which were high on my "drop" list) have gotten some new life in Debian. However, screem needs a replacement and kino as well. You might also look at packages that compliment the current selection that Edubuntu hasn't traditionally shipped because they were in Universe. Lastly, 10.04 needs a lot of testing. I can't emphasize enough how much of a pain it is to have bugs crop up the day before RC and you have no chance to fix them. Installer and seed bugs especially need to be fixed early as you don't have much of a chance to test. I noticed that Edubuntu didn't have an Alpha 1. It's imperative that as many milestones as possible have an Edubuntu ISO. Congrats again to the new EC and I'm glad to see meetings are happening. I'll crawl back under my rock now :-) -Jordan -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
