<div dir="ltr"><div><div>This actually is kind of what I meant (and perhaps should be a separate thread).<br><br>My understanding is that deployments nowadays are the primary parties funding Sugar development. And the deployments or their contractors sometimes duplicate work, run into debates upstreaming things, and/or may choose to keep some things semi-private to differentiate their products.<br>
<br></div>So apart from major functionality like HTML5 activities, a lot of peripheral development is happening downstream-first. And when we do try to do major cross-group development like the GTK3 port, this has lead to finger-pointing behind the scenes where it is claimed others are not doing what they promised.<br>
<br></div><div>To the best of my knowledge no single organization currently employs enough developers and/or contractors to keep Sugar development alive. I am not certain what the best approach to take is when this is the case.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:22 PM, James Cameron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org" target="_blank">quozl@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 12:00:47AM +0200, Daniel Narvaez wrote:<br>
> Well "everyone seems to be developing their own version of Sugar"<br>
> seems to be more than that. But maybe I'm just reading too much into<br>
> it.<br>
><br>
> There aren't multiple groups of people or individuals developing<br>
> sugar on their own. As far as I know all the work that is being done<br>
> these days is going upstream.<br>
<br>
</div>Good. I only know of four Sugars. Sugar upstream, Dextrose, what is<br>
in OLPC OS, and what is in the Australian builds. There might be<br>
more, but I'm not aware of them. I also don't know the difference<br>
between each.<br>
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James Cameron<br>
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