[sugar] Remarks on the Work of Sugar (kid contributions)

[Martin Dengler]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 06:27:59PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> [some interesting points]

Sorry my meta-comments snuck in - they aren't relevant, and I didn't
follow my own advice...I retract them (I'm sure you can tell what
parts they were).

>   => Do any frequent contributors have ONLY an XO? <=

As I've been fiddling around with a patch or two, my jhbuild has been
broken due to x86_64 Xephyr F9 brokenness that's been recently fixed
(thanks dodji, if you're listening, and cjb/marco for pushing), so
please count me among those contributors who only have an XO
(temporarily).

> But the tools needed to be a contributing part of the Sugar community
> don't run on the XO.
[...]
> Merely installing the change without trashing his XO's entire GUI
> with a typo or missing Python file is tricky.

After restarting X/Sugar so often to test patches for #6995, I've
developed an itch for a Sugar-shell-REPL in Pippy, or something
similar.  Perhaps that's one way for people in the field to tinker.
Of course there are diff/code browsing issues still.

> 	John

Martin
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