2009/5/19 David Van Assche <dvanass...@gmail.com>: > We had an IRC meeting yesterday (1 day after sugar camp!) to decide > how to move forward with the decisions taken at Sugar Camp in the area > of making packaging easier, performance better, testing easier, and > volunteer support and QA attraction a more realistic process and > approach. You can see the wiki entry discussed (ie. what was said at > Sugar Camp) here: > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Community/Distributions/OpenSUSE > > Though it mentions openSUSE it is really distro agnostic, its just > that key members of the openSUSE team were at the IRC meeting to > discuss the synching of jhconvert with oBS (openSUSE build service) so > that we can totally automate the process from getting revisions of > glucose, fructose, and some honey directly to all distros and > platforms. That novelly (no pun intended) includes the ARM > architecture for Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and openSUSE. You can check > the irc logs of what was discussed here if you have any interest: > > http://en.opensuse.org/Sugar/Meetings > > Other performance and testing automation includes better hardware for > buildbot and the revival of the sugarbot project (an auto testing bot > to some degree) though it was agreed at Sugar Camp that much more > manual performance and security testing must be done, since its > unrealistic to rely on automated tests only. Still, both Buildbot and > Sugarbot are intesesting concepts and should help the process of the > developers, triagers, and even QA people significantly. > > What we're doing goes a little bit against the policies of many > distros, but remember we almost consider Sugar its own OS ;-) and > distribution maintainers of Sugar are free to take the dsitributed > source and build it all again if they really like. We are just making > sure that Sugar IS available everywhere for everyone, and that it is > not the distros deciding whether Sugar should be allowed in one > version or another. We just want the best Sugar out there available to > all. So distro maintainers of Sugar can either keep up with Sugar, or > probably have their users ousing Sugar repos elsewhere........ > > I hope this doesn't start any rifts or flame wars, that was not my > intention. As stated above, its just to get the best Sugar out there > as quickly as possible to everyone in all formats....
Though I believe that we should make sure that Sugar is well packaged _and_ part of the main distros, I don't see why having alternate sets of packages for several distros would be a problem. You have mentioned tasks that will be very important for SLs but that will call for a lot of good work. Looking forward for the next steps! Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel