On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:38, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) <boche...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 16:24, Daniel Drake wrote: >> 2009/9/16 Sebastian Dziallas: >>> Let me rephrase again, to make things clear. I'd love to hear an >>> "official" answer on this. Soon. >>> >>> Is the current SoaS going to be the primary way Sugar Labs distributes a >>> Sugar-centric GNU/Linux distribution? >> >> Isn't there a wider question first? the one that asks if Sugar Labs is >> actually interested in being a distributor rather than just an >> upstream. I raised that question in my recent discussion and my >> feeling is that the responses basically said "well we should really >> just focus on being an upstream since we already are overworked there, >> but actually Sugar Labs is just a platform where everyone interested >> in Sugar can get together and run Sugar-related projects" >> >> Based on that, I'd say that SoaS is a fine project to sit under Sugar >> Labs but there shouldn't be a "primary way" of getting Sugar. Like >> other upstream projects, Sugar Labs should work with multiple >> downstreams (treating them equally) in order to achieve wide adoption >> of the software. > > That's what I think as well. Sugar should be yet another DE in its > relationship to distribution. > > That doesn't prevent SL to distribute some kind of a demo image (like > Gnome does with Farsight Linux, for marketing purpose mainly), but the > "primary way of getting Sugar" should be "ask your OS-vendor" IMHO. > > And no, I'm not saying that SoaS should be nothing more than a > discardable demo. I see SoaS more as a downstream OS-vendor, > distributing Sugar.
That's a very interesting comparison, the discardable demo is of biggest use for Sugar upstream, but it's also true that it has tremendous value in real, end-user use of Sugar. Regards, Tomeu -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel