ubuntu-sugar-remix community update

[David Farning]

CCed sugarteam

Thanks Thomas,

Tomorrow afternoon we will work with Henry Grover to test and file these bugs.

david

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Thomas C Gilliard
<satellit at bendbroadband.com> wrote:
> I just tested 0103 on Sun Virtual box:
>
> 1-)It does not install to the hard disk. It switches to the CD.iso after it
> starts partitioner.
> On reboot it will not start the HD (Your first version installed to HD
> correctly)
> 2-)Analyze activity will crash if Presence tab is selected
> 3-) Browse does not start, does save yourself after delay
> 4-) terminal will not run if log out or shutdown is previously selected
> 5-) Shutdown can be done from terminal: sudo shutdown -h now  works
> correctly
>
> Tom Gilliard
> satellit
>
> dfarning at ubuntu.com wrote
>>
>> It looks like I am going to spend a lot of time writing again.  The
>> response to the initial USR was quite a bit more than I expected.  That is
>> great!  But, it is going to take a while before we are all heading in the
>> same direction. I have gotten a couple of questions about the bigger picture
>> intentions for USR and how people can get involved.
>> --Ubuntu-Sugar-Remix is going to be fast and furious for a couple of
>> months. The primary packages will be in Lucid.  Lucid is currently set to
>> auto sync against Debian testing.  Rather than get in the habit of carrying
>> a bunch of patches almost all issues will be pushed upstream.  The ubuntu
>> packages will only deviate from the the debian packages it we intend to do
>> something which seems odd in the eyes of debian developers or for brief
>> periods of time while Ubuntu freezes in preparation for a release.  Once
>> things settle down, we will try to use the ubuntu backport team to build
>> karmic packages.
>>
>> I hope to have daily (or every couple of days) releases for a few weeks as
>> we knock off low hanging bugs.  Longer term, releases will align with normal
>> releases.   In the meantime I strongly suggest testing the images rather
>> than trying to install the packages.
>>
>> I have released a new snapshot of Ubuntu-Sugar-Remix base on feedback and
>> bug reports from Caroline Meeks and Satellit.  thanks.
>>  http://people.sugarlabs.org/dfarning/ubuntu-sugar-remix-0103.iso
>>
>> --Packages, images, autosyncs and PPAs.
>>
>> A few minutes go Jeff Elkner, from the Governor's Career and Technical
>> Academy in Arlington (GCTAA), has asked some hard questions about why I am
>> breaking so much stuff.  The short answer is that the SugarTeam 0.86 PPA was
>> never meant to be more than a proof of concept that Sugar on Ubuntu could be
>> awesome.  (and a chance for me to learn to package)
>>
>> Ubuntu Sugarteam is the new kid on the block.  Debian, Ubuntu, and Sugar
>> Labs are well established and successful project.  They have workflows,
>> processes, products, and projects which they have established over the
>> years.  To be successful, we have to figure out how to build on the best
>> parts of those project, and give back value.
>>
>> Debian -> Ubuntu.  One of the greatest strengths (and sources of
>> frustration) in the .deb echo system is the upstream/downstream relationship
>> between Debian and Ubuntu.  Short term it was pretty easy to hack together
>> some packages which worked and stick them in a PPA.  Long term we are going
>> to need to work with Debian to share the packaging burden.  Ideally, a few
>> of us will become Debian developers or Debian package maintainers
>>
>> Ubuntu -> Sugar Team.  Again the PPA was quick and easy... and proved that
>> Sugar on Ubuntu could be awesome.  Long term we are going to need to work
>> with the Ubuntu community and process.  For now, we must depend on MOTU
>> sponsors to help us work 'with' Ubuntu.  Within, a few months we should have
>> a couple of MOTU qualified people on the team.
>>
>> Sugar Labs -> Ubuntu-Sugar-Remix.  The final piece of the puzzle will be
>> working with Sugar Labs.  After all, the whole point of USR is to make Sugar
>> more widely available.  Hopefully all the bug reports, triaging, and hacking
>> we do makes it way back upstream to Sugar Labs.
>>
>> We have three strong upstream partners.  As we move forward we will have
>> to 'prove our value' to down stream partners who take USR and put it in the
>> hand of children everywhere.
>>
>> david
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