Over the last two days, many people involved in developing and distributing Sugar have taken the opportunity provided by FUDCon to meet, talk, find common ground, and most importantly, find a way forward.
We started off the day with a brief situation analysis lead by Walter Bender. Not much needs to change with the 'upstream' Sugar learning platform .84 release. Some hoped for features might not make it into the release. But, the release will happen on time. The bigger question is, 'What are we going to do about the upcoming 9.1 XOos release.' By XOos I am referring to the customized version of Fedora that OLPC was optimizing for the XO. A group of Sugar developers, past and present OLPC employees, and members of Fedora community spent a rather long and exhausting day with GregDek sorting out the difference between XOos and stock Fedora. By leveraging our strengths, and admitting our weakness, we can release Xoos 9.1 as a custom Fedora spin under the standard Fedora release process. Dependencies need to be pruned. Patches need to be pushed upstream. And again, some things may not make the quickly approaching feature freezes. Most importantly, the release will happen. Thanks Fedora. David _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep