Hi all,
as you may have noticed, there are a couple of changes coming to Sugar
on a Stick to keep the whole project sustainable. In the upcoming month,
from March 28 (I'll be off starting Sunday night) to May 7, my ability
to devote time to the project will cease. I have to prepare for my major
A-level exams; more importantly, I have to secure a significant amount
of funding in order to be able to attend college later this fall. (If
you're interested in helping, see
http://sdziallas.com/blog/sebastian/2010/03/sebastian-needs-100k.html
for more details - any advice would be appreciated.)
This does not affect the release date. Sugar on a Stick will be released
as a spin through Fedora's release engineering process on May 11. We are
bound to this date and will have a working release in time. The general
release schedule including all relevant policies is available here [1].
Nightly builds are also available [2] (and will contain a fixed IRC
activity within a couple of days, as soon as [3] has been pushed to stable).
Activity authors are also advised that the final freeze date for package
updates is April 27, so make sure to get fixes pushed well in advance to
give package maintainers and the update system time to process.
Peter Robinson has kindly agreed to act in case something is needed.
Please make sure to post to the appropriate lists, though, so that
everybody is in the loop. Finally, please file bugs at
bugs.sugarlabs.org as explained in [4] to save all of us time.
Thanks,
--Sebastian
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/13/Schedule
[2] http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/
[3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-xoirc-6-4.fc13
[4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Sugar_on_a_Stick/Getting_Involved
FYI, these were the notes from last Monday's Board Strategic Working
Group meeting, where your responses to the Board's questions were
noted and discussed. From this, there are several specific actions we
would like to see taken:
# the problems hampering Spins due to long GNOME dependency chain
requirements has a ticket open for FESCo to discuss.
https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/345
# hosting space for Spins for direct http downloads will be made available by Infrastructure.
Each spin should file a request for space with infrastructure.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/RFR
# being able to offer AutoQA
individual Spins should get involved with QA Team to ensure their
needs are addressed as well as those of the rest of the Project.
This is highly dependent on Spins owners contributing to the QA
methodologies and even direct test efforts - QA is already feeling
overwhelmed, and we need to scale this process out across more volunteers.
# banners on get.fp.o -> spins.fp.o
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/16
People with web site building experience are asked to participate in
the websites team to remove "waiting on someone who can" as a possible
bottleneck.
I thank you all for your valuable input and continuing contributions
to Fedora.
Thanks,
Matt
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:17:37 -0800
From: John Poelstra <poelstra(a)redhat.com>
To: advisory-board(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Board SWG Meeting 2010-03-01 Recap
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_strategic_working_group_2010-0…
== Roll Call ==
* Attendees: John Poelstra, Paul Frields, Chris Tyler, Mike McGrath,
Colin Walters, Matt Domsch
* Notes from last meeting:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Meeting:Board_strategic_working_group_2010-0…
== Spins Work ==
* Background:
** Matt and Colin have been collecting feedback to questions asked
**
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_TargetAudience
**
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Walters/SpinsSigsRemixes_ChangeDistribu…
** http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/spins/2010-February/000996.html
** https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mdomsch/SWG_Spins
* Each spin producing group does believe they can and should define a
target audience
* John: would it help clarify our message to refer to the live gnome
desktop as the ''default offering'' rather than referring to it as a spin?
** Paul: Spins were initially conceived as a range of things the
community can produce that are alternatives to what we feel must be
created, or add-ons that narrowly focus on special use cases
* Matt: Rel-eng sits in the middle of the spin creation process right
now -- a couple communication breakdowns have happened over time,
sometimes spin producers didn't know their spin was being built
** Matt: semi-OT -- at some point need to reconsider the question of who
builds the spins. Does it always have to be Release Engineering?
** Paul: more narrowly aimed spins (FEL, Games, ...) seem to nail their
use cases quite well
* Top of mind problem seems to be some dependency chains
(system-config-keyboard), whether or not that is the most serious
problem or not isn't clear
* '''PAIN POINT IDENTIFIED''': Dependency chain requirements cause
alternate desktop spins to still pull in a large portion of the GNOME stack.
** '''NEXT STEPS''': Mike will file ticket with FESCo requesting they
look at dependency chain requirements. This could be a Fedora
Engineering Services task.
** Colin willing to look at helping with dependency chain issues
** ''TICKET''': https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/345
* '''NON PAIN POINT''': Spins SIG does feel that resolution processes
have been working well when they're needed.
* Resources:
** Infrastructure now has the ability to host additional content,
including spins. This has been a long time incoming, and needs to be
implemented and announced, but the capacity is there now.
** Ambassadors who want to pass out specific spins can make requests for
monetary resources to CommArch, to be evaluated in the scope of media
requests and budget.
*** The Board is not taking a stance on what medias should be produced
for any particular event.
* Not sure what to do with feedback from survey work that showed that
some people don't want the board to help or ask questions about how they
can help
=== Next Steps & Positive Outcomes ===
# dependency chain requirements
#* https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/345
# hosting space for Spins
#* Each spin should file a request for space with infrastructure
# (tentative) being able to offer AutoQA
#* individual Spins should get involved with QA Team to ensure their
needs are addressed as well as those of the rest of the Project.
# banners on get.fp.o
#* https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/16
# Update wiki pages for information collected
== Default Offering ==
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Current_default_offering
* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/Different_default_offering
* Give feedback to Paul by tomorrow, 2010-03-02
* Paul will send to Board for approval on 2010-03-02
== Topics and plan for next meeting ==
* John/Chris will take up topic of "What is a target audience?"
* Meet next week, 2010-03-08 at 20:00 UTC (3:00pm EST/12:00pm PST)
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