On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > As long as no one (including developers) is confused that "SoaS > release 1( Strawberry)" alias "SoaS-2" is running Sugar v0.84 and > Fedora 11. > > I'm just wondering why "SoaS-2" is in use... non-initiates will assume > that means SoaS release 2 (Blueberry), don't you think?
I'm a long-time watcher of the mailing lists and (now) a developer and I was/am confused. What do you think is going to happen when some random IT guy/power user tries to report problems? At a minimum, there needs to be a prominent wiki page somewhere documenting which number corresponds to what. And it IS a mess. If someone says that it will be fixed in Sugar 0.88 (which is likely to be the response from a developer), as an end user (or supporter of same); I shouldn't have to dig through mailing list archive archives to figure out what that means. As for these numbers not being visible, that's just wrong. The pilgrim 'version' number is displayed every time I boot an SoaS ISO on my machine. The CD label is in the isolinux.cfg file, which is practically the only file on a burned ISO whose contents can be viewed without growing through wizard level Linux incantations. As for ISO filenames: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-2-beta.iso is the same as: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/3/SoaS3-200908302159.iso and http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/releases/soas-strawberry.iso equals http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200906221314.iso Anybody who is curious (isn't that what we are encouraging) is likely to find at least one of those numbers. The problem will come when they don't find ALL of them and realize they have to be careful when reporting problems. We are punishing them for their curiosity by having a gratuitous inconsistency. Unfortunately, I don't see any other fix then to document what corresponds to what. This is a software (release) engineering issue. The problems will come from non-developers and will only start to happen once there is more then one public release. To: Martin: I'm not objecting to v2 (we have no choice). I'm saying we have to publicly document what goes with what. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list Marketing@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
