An OLPC Development Model

[Andres Salomon]

On Wed, 7 May 2008 21:34:15 +0200
Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:

> On 07.05.2008, at 19:54, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Bert Freudenberg  
> > <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> >> On 07.05.2008, at 19:36, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm not really convinced it should be a separate build. Just ship
> >>> a set of core activities and make it really easy to install new
> >>> ones (we
> >>> have already everything in place to do so).
> >>
> >> I hate the "core activities" idea. What are the core activities
> >> for an
> >> education machine? The activities that distinguish the XO from
> >> all the
> >> other laptops out there are regularly omitted from the "core".
> >> Like in
> >> the new olpc3 build (*). There is no technical reason for this,
> >> and it
> >> sends the wrong message. Unless someone wants to  convey that this
> >> is just another laptop project.
> >>
> >> - Bert -
> >>
> >> (*) http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/olpc3-pkgs.html
> >
> > Bert, the olpc3 branch has not been released yet and in fact doesn't
> > even *boot* yet, as far as I know.  It's where Dennis is working on
> > FC9 stuff.  etoys is not in the official Fedora repositories because
> > of CLA issues, which we all understand, but to fault Dennis for not
> > including something which is completely irrelevant to the FC9
> > porting work he is actually trying to do, and furthermore, to make
> > this complaint against an *unreleased and unannounced testing
> > build* which *doesn't even boot* -- this verges on paranoia.
> > Please don't assume that OLPC is somehow conspiring against etoys!
> > It is one of the most heavily used pieces of software in our
> > deployments, as far as I can tell.
> 
> Well, my trust in OLPC is being probed every other day. I take your  
> word, and I trust a few other people there, but I also have to  
> acknowledge that priorities at OLPC are changing. So much so that
> some of the people I trusted most are leaving.
> 
> And it's certainly no coincidence that the list of activities in
> olpc3 is what Kim wanted in ticket 6598. You certainly remember the  
> discussions.
> 
> We'll see. If this fear is unfunded, all the better.
> 

Tee-hee; best Freudian slip of the week.  By a guy named Freudenberg,
no less!