Hi David, On Sunday 19 October 2008 21:00, David Farning wrote: > Is the version lag going to be a continuing issue? Well, (I expect the answer to be) yes and no. I guess it will be a reoccuring issue. Right now, Jonas has just uploaded a bunch of 0.82 packages to sid (thanks a lot!). Also, there are many release cycles involved: OLPC, fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, ... - all have different release cycles. So, maybe sugar 9.0 will be perfect for squeeze, but not in time for fedora 11. (Or whatever, just random examples..) > Sugar Labs has a > established a time based, six month, release cycle. The main reason we > decided to do time based release is downstream predictability. Thats great. But predictability unfortunatly doesnt include suitability :) (Though of course it makes planning easier and therefore the likehood of suitability higher.) > We have > decided that Sugar Labs is in the business of developing the Sugar Learning > Platform. Consequently, we will depend on our downstream partners to > distribute and put Sugar in classrooms. Much of my effort over the last > several months has been developing communities within the distributions to > package Sugar. Our next phase is establishing relationships with existing > 'Open Source Education' projects. Our goal is to develop, with your help, a > standard education platform that is completely distribution and hardware > independent. Nice. > Manuals- > Glad you like Floss Manuals! Again, going with our theme of focusing on > platform development, we are partnering with FLOSS Manuals to produce our > user documentation. Rather then try to recreate a documentation team within > Sugar Labs, we are leveraging the exist FLOSS Manual infrastructure and > community. The manuals you referred to were jointly written by FM, OLPC, > and SL during a book sprint in Austin TX last August. Luke Faraone, an > Ubuntu SugarTeam member, recently started a thread[1] on the FLOSS Manuals > mailing list about creating .debs of the manuals. Great. The first step to .debs (or .rpms for that matter) is actually usually a source release, mostly in form of a tar archive. I havent looked how one can get the source of the sugar flossmanual atm, if it's easy to get, it definitly should be packaged. (Having them available in printed form is also a nice bonus.) > Another project at FLOSS > Manuals is their translation zone. FLOSS Manuals has a process for create > language based communities to translate and maintain manuals. This week > there is a translation sprint going on in Brazil. OLPC France is planning > a translation event in the next couple of weeks. I have CC the FM List Nice as well :) regards, Holger
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