El Wed, 09-06-2010 a las 02:59 -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis escribió:
However, the 20month+ old F9/0.82, os802 build remains the official
XO-1 build.
It's just a formality, nobody has been doing any work on it for years.
Shouldn't it be some focus on os8.2Bx/F11-0.84 so they can be
finalized,
become official and put aside once and for all, instead of having them
linger with the newer efforts and still show 802 as the official one?
+1 on finalizing a generic F11-0.84 image. Calling it "official" makes
little sense, as deployments can autonomously decide what goes on their
laptops. Thou an official label could help convince the most hesitant
ones to go ahead.
Is XO-1 software development going to proceed only through
deployments (request)?
So it seems, but anyone in the community is welcome to join in and help
out. As far as I'm concerned, F11-0.84 went into production one month
ago so we're not planning any new releases. Stephen Parrish is working
on a more generic build with a broader set of languages and other
improvements.
Now we're working full steam to roll out F11-0.88 by the end of August:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Deployment_Team/Sugar-0.88_Notes
BTW, I'm planning to release a new test build tomorrow or Thursday.
The XO-1.5 is still missing a production build (in my view) since
the marquee Record.activity is still problematic
Anish Mangal is working on improving Record.
and the openchrome driver still has problems with screen rotation
among other things.
However, it would appear the ARM/XO-1.75/3 is getting the limelight at the moment.
It s always exciting to look to the future but shouldn't XO-1.5 get a production
build at some point soon?
We can stick the "production ready" label on today's build or wait until
all known bugs are fixed. Regardless, deployments are going to put into
production whatever build happens to be available at the moment they
need to distribute the laptops. Does anyone know how many XO-1.5 are
already in the hands of children?
I do not really know what's going on behind the scenes, but
looking
at the mailing lists I have the feeling that we are looking at many
individual little trees while there are big un-wooded areas in the forest.
Indeed, but the ability to work in parallel is not necessarily a bad
thing, as long as there's a good amount of cross-pollination. It's a
sign that more parties are getting involved in the OS development
process, which is good.
Last year the situation looked more consistent only because there wasn't
nearly as much activity.
Just 2c from a (n over?)worrying outsider.
I think it's important to have reflections on our process from time to
time.
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