Hi,
this came up several times now. People where wondering what Fructose is.
From the definition it is:
The Sugar developers will need some example set of activities with which
to demonstrate Sugar. This set is Fructose. The packages in Fructose
should be selected to make the resulting environment as impressive as
possible for a potential client or user. Packages should therefore be
stable, polished, and exercise the widest possible range of features.
Fructose may also serve as an example for people constructing their own
Activity sets. [1]
The current list of activities can be found at [2].
The fructose activities follow the Sucrose development cycle (0.84,
0.86...). This means they follow the freezes, provide source tarballs,
need a present maintainer etc. The duties are described at [3]. The
activity gets noted in release notes, possibly more attention by the
localization teams as revenue.
In the end their are downsides and upsides to be part of Fructose. There
were some arguing, that only system dependent activities should be part
of it (e.g. Browse with the dependency on hulahop).
There were some discussions that we would loose the show case activities
when an activity would not be part of Fructose anymore. This comes down
to packaging, as for rpm packaging one needs to provide the source
tarballs and need to follow certain rules. Some distributors may ship
the .xo bunles at one point, otherwise probably won't, so it is a good
habit to do the source releases.
Anyhow, this is a bit of the background. Let's think how we can move
forward on this topic. We should do it quickly, to be able to keep the
work on 0.88 going.
Regards,
Simon
[1]
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Taxonomy#Fructose:_The_set_of_demonstration_activities
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Modules
[3]
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release#New_modules_proposal
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