Sounds great to me! On Tuesday, 29 October 2013, David Farning wrote:
> I would like to thank everyone who has provided valuable feedback by > participating on this thread. > > The three things I am going to takeway from the the thread are: > 1. Jame's point about my position about not representing the median. > Due to my history and role in the ecosystem, I have upset some > apple-carts :( > 2. Martin's point about the right hand not always being aware of what > the left hand is doing. This unfortunately seems to happen too > frequently. > 3. Finally, and most importantly, Daniel's point about getting back > to the business of improving Sugar. > > My proposal is that Activity Central make the next step of funding two > developers to work on HTML5 and JS. If we can find a mutually > beneficial relationship around this, we can see how we can expand the > relationship in the future. > > Seem reasonable? > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Daniel Narvaez > <dwnarv...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > On 29 October 2013 01:14, David Farning > > <dfarn...@activitycentral.com<javascript:;> > > > > wrote: > >> > >> As two Data points: > >> In a private conversation with an Association employee they told me > >> that they conciser Activity Central a competitor because Activity > >> Central increased deployments expectations. Their strategy with regard > >> to Activity Central was to _not_ accept patches upstream with the goal > >> of causing Activity Central and Dextrose to collapse under its their > >> weight. As it was private conversation I am not sure how widely spread > >> the opinion was held. > > > > > > The patch queue is currently empty. In the last six months only one > patchset > > was rejected. It was by Activity Central and it was rejected by me (not > an > > OLPC employee) for purely technical reasons. The proof being that the > same > > patchset landed after being cleaned up and resubmitted properly by > another > > Activity Central developer. > > > > More in general, no single developer is in charge of patch reviewing, > OLPC > > couldn't keep code out of the tree for non-technical reason even if they > > wanted to. More specifically the ability to approve patches was offered > to > > one Activity Central developer, which never used it. > > > >> Recently there was a call for help testing HTML5 and JS. Two > >> developers Code and Roger have been writing proof of concept > >> activities. They have been receiving extensive off-list help getting > >> started. But, interestingly, their on-list request for clarification > >> about how to test datastore was met with silence. > > > > > > Mailing list posts going unanswered isn't really uncommon in free > software > > projects. But most of the time it just means that no one knows the > answer or > > everyone is too busy. > > > > Only me and Manuel are usually answering about HTML5. I have not answered > > because... gmail put those messages in my spam folder, sigh! Most likely > the > > same happened to Manuel or he has been busy. (I need to take some sleep > now > > but I'll try to answer asap). > > > > -- > David Farning > Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com > -- Daniel Narvaez
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