On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:48:50AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Michael Stone <mich...@laptop.org> wrote: > > Under the temporary working hypothesis that we want to make a Sugar release > > in > > a couple of months, I'd like to know more about what we might find ourselves > > integrating. Here's my current list of, er... mostly unvetted rumors. :) > > Hi Michael, > > thanks for taking on this effort. Overall, it's a fantastic thing that > this is rolling forward. > > The two first items on your list make me think a bit. > > - 0install and Vala are controversial, risky and not focussed on > pressing end-users' needs. Yes there are some benefits and potential > to both (otherwise Aleksey would not be working on them! :-) ) but > they also break lots of toys.
I would say this is targeting to break not toys but players' minds :). The core idea behind these tools, they are just tools, to reach workflow of huge LEGO i.e. low floor - declaring base rules that let use/share/change things more smooth and decentralized in heterogeneous environment (not only for particular deployment like OLPC) when there is only "doer<->doer" interaction scheme. This is not replacing/substitution of existed major sugar core workflow (targeting mainly on deployment e.g. GNU/Linux distributions or OLPC) but about adding another vector. And, I'm tending to think that this 0sugar/polyol/etc stuff is more for Activity Team rather than Development Team. > - Reworking the datastore... while I welcome efforts in a new > datastore... _every Sugar release has a new DS implementation_ and > they get little testing and I've seen extremely light thinking about > what is _actually_ needed. We need _a good, polished DS that covers > many aspects sanely_... a new DS is unlikely to do so. IOWs the > barrier to merge a new DS should be high. It just triggers my CADT > alarms http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html > > Hopefully your list is not prioritised ;-) and it's just an accident > that those two are top-of-the-list... > > Or maybe there's a goal to have 0.90 be a "break lots of toys towards > a 'developer release' and then make 1.0 the real deal". > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
