On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 04:34:08PM -0500, David Farning wrote: > After a couple of eventful, and fruitful, weeks with XSCE, I would > like to to clarify a few points where our message seemed to be > unclear. > > -- Emphasis on small deployments. As a community, there is currently > an emphasis towards small deployments. Due to their limited > bureaucracies, we have been able to establish very quick turnaround > times for feedback and fixes. This has enabled us to keep our rate of > development quite high. > > The design and implementation of XSCE should scale from 1 school to > 100,000 schools. There is currently an "Ansible rewrite" ( > http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/ ) in process. We believes that the > use of ansible as a configure management tool has the potential to > reduce the maintenance required at large deployments. A team of > developers at AC is working on this now with the goal of landing in > the beginning of the 0.5 release cycle > > -- Emphasis on ARM. XSCE runs on any hardware which runs Fedora 18. > The current releases heavily favored XOs because they were a logical > starting point from a Quality Assurance perspective. Debugging is an > order of magnitude easier when testers and developers are running the > same equipment. Starting with XOs enabled us to focus on school server > developments rather than hardware quirks. > > Each quarterly release we have added additional hardware types. This > is allowing the project to scale gradually to more and more device > types without overwhelming developers and testers. > > -- Core OS. The decisions to base on Fedora was not taken lightly. If > we wanted to run on XO-4s we had to run on a recent Fedora. The second > issue is the fact that most of the interesting low powered servers > are ARM based. > > Moving forward, our goal is to use the flexibility of the ansible > provisioning system to be able to configure XSCE on fedora and CentOS. > On an interesting note, we have been contacted by a team of ARM on > CentOS developers who offered to work with us to get CentOS a a couple > of ARM based servers. > > -- Our goals is not to tell anyone what they should do. We have > avoided discussions on public lists such as this to avoid the > temptation for people to tell us what to do... or for us to tell them > what to do. Instead, we have focused on adding value. > > We hope to add value to the ecosystem. We hope that adding value earns > us influence. In exchange we invite people to participate in the XSCE > project by adding value. That value will help them earn influence > within the project. > > I hope this help clarify some of the issues that have come up over the > past couple of days.
Not really, since those issues mainly had to do with OLPC, but I do think your write-up could be better placed by merging it with the http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition article. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel