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<p><font size="2">issue</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">affects all users</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">affects all developers</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">radical change suggested</font></p>
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<p><font size="2"><span lang="-none-">tolerability of current state of affairs</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2">how hard to improve</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">power management</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">6</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">2</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">?</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">5</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">3</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">mesh</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">6</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">4</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">6</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">4</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">5</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">both of the above together</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">7</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">datastore</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">8</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">8</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">10</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">3</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">5*</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">sugar UI</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">8</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">4 (many changes are inside sugar)</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">5</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">6</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">3-5*</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">collaboration</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">6</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">6</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">6</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">7</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">3*</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">compatibility/</font></p><p><font size="2">interoperability</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">2</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">7</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">4 (mostly clever hacks)</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">6</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">3</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">performance</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">8</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">2</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">4</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">6</font></p>
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<p><font size="2">5</font></p>
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<font size="2"><br><br>* Requires work by activity developers.<br><br><br>... As you can probably see from the above table, I'd vote putting the datastore first in line, as it is the one issue which causes data loss.<br>
<br>More later,<br>Jameson<br><br></font><p></p>
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