On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:56, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:47:35AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> I want them to stop doing redundant work, > > Please tell me if I'm doing redundant work, and I'll back off. It is > often difficult to know what work is being done, so without knowledge of > this it is quite likely that redundancy will occur.
Everybody is supposed to tell their colleagues when they are doing redundant work without a good reason for that. I wasn't referring to you because you read and participate on the mailing lists, but there's quite a bit of Sugar work being done out there that we don't know about. >> waiting for others to do >> something that nobody ends up doing, > > I think a downstream might want to wait for others to do something that > nobody ends up doing ... that's a potential result of prioritisation by > the downstream. Not referring to that, a good example is the F11 on XO-1 effort. I talked to two deployments and both told me that they were waiting for OLPC to release a stable version, but OLPC had publicly stated that they would not work on that. This case of miscommunication set the f11-on-xo1 effort some months back for no good reason. I don't see why a SLs developer has to take a plane in order to realize the situation and put people talking together. > (Why did you fix that, James, when there were more important things to > fix?) > >> and stop waiting for SLs to do >> what they need without having to even talk about it. > > I'm puzzled at that concept ... I can't see how SL can do something > without any communication at all. ;-) > >> I know there are several people working in finding ways for resources >> to reach upstream right now, but I find quite scary that SLs is seen >> as a group with a strong identity that intends to control users of >> Sugar. > > That's a side-effect of strong maintenance principles. Control of the > code means some control of users. An alternative is a plethora of > forks. Lower barriers on a fork demonstrates less control of users. But maintainers are supposed to come from downstreams, not paid by SLs. Regards, Tomeu > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel