On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 13:00 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:20:11PM -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > Meanwhile, distros are repackaging our xo bundles into native rpms and > > debs... Are we sure we couldn't just sit and let the distros do their > > job? > > Adds to the latency between writing code and having it used. > > Distribution policies, while they are well meaning and good for > distributions, also increase the effort required.
Indeed, this would be a problem. But I see two possible solutions: (1) add a sugar repository besides those provided by the upstream distro; (2) become co-maintainers of the packages to issue updates whenever we like. If Sugar activities are used only by Sugar, we can set our own policies. The KDE people have a lot of autonomy within Fedora and Ubuntu. They have been known to ship new mayor versions of their desktop disguised as stability updates :-) -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
