On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobin...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote:
The problem with this approach is that it renders SoaS ineffective for
new tryers of Sugar (i.e. the overwhelming majority of teachers and
parents we are trying to reach).

I don't think it will be any less ineffective than having 20
activities of which half have issues, crash or just don't run.

Are people saying _only 6 activities work reliably?_

My question of "which is it?" was assuming there are more than 6 that
run well, demo well, maintained, etc. So it meant "which plan is it, 6
activities that allow downloading and installing of more, or the good
ones?"

If there are only 6 good ones...  would focus on making that list longer.

Did APIs break with Sugar churn, Fedora churn? Developers upload
without testing? (Rethorical! Flamefest warning! Those questions are
bound to be a flamefest blaming people who don't deserve to be
blamed... :-( )

A big issue that we are have on the .deb side is the the distros are pushing 
ahead with new, faster, stronger.... While sugar has stabilized on a base.  The 
biggest issue for us is with xulrunner and browse.  Since mozilla has dropped 
support for xulrunner and xpcom in favor of web kit.  Ubuntu is not willing to 
carry it forward in the upcoming LTS release.

I don't know if one can properly assign blame.  It is more the nature of 
evolutionary software development.  Upstreams move forward while downstreams 
are more hesitant because they have significant investments and support cost to 
consider.

david

cheers,



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