On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 13:02, Mel Chua <m...@melchua.com> wrote: > (from the last SLOBs agenda-kickin', > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2010-July/011343.html) > > Question from Kevin Mark: Who should be the deciding organization for > who determines what version of sugar is used in the field? > > "I was confused about the hierarchy of who should be the deciding > organization for who determines what version of sugar is used in the > field. There are more than 500,000 users and many people outside of OLPC > and Sugar Labs that will have to support that choice (of using 0.88) as > well as the support that OLPC and Sugar Labs in Boston and elsewhere > will have to provide. I dont know how a new 3rd party like Activity > Central is involved in this and what role they should be taking as they > are untested and lacking the kind of resouces that OLPC and Sugar Labs > have at the moment." > > Mel's response: To me, this is very clear - SL decides what version(s) > of Sugar it will support, and deployments will decide what version(s) of > Sugar they will use. Deployments don't have to use the supported version > of Sugar, they just won't get support from SL if they do. :) And others > (deployments or third-party entities) may step up to offer support for > versions SL itself does not support. > > Your thoughts?
I think it's worth making explicit that the resources spent by SLs on supporting a specific version are likely to come from deployments, even if this activity happens inside SLs. This implies that deployments will have a critical voice in what is considered supported or not. Regards, Tomeu > --Mel > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
