[Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 3

[James Cameron]

Tony, you have quoted me and misunderstand my use of the word
"unstable".  It means something that continues to change, that
develops, in response to user input in the form of enhancements and
bug fixes.  I would like to see continued change and development of
both XS and XSCE.  I don't see it happening at the moment; both
development streams appear stalled (there are no published plans to
release), but I would not be unhappy to see the streams restarted.

"stable" software means it isn't going to change, isn't going to
develop in response to changing needs, and isn't going to be fixed.

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 03:34:29AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think there is a real misunderstanding of the school server software.
> 
> Daniel Drake updated XS-0.6 to a CentOS 6.2 base because the Fedora
> base was obsolete. There is no need for continued development of XS
> at this time, it is functional and stable.
> 
> XSCE appears to be a substantially different development aimed, at
> several objectives:
>     enable XO hardware to act as the school server
>     support the ARM platform
>     provide gui support for basic system administration
>     modularize server functions so that deployments can pick and
> choose which capabilities to include.
> 
> I don't think we need or want an unstable XS. The existence of
> CentOS points to the difference between server and client software
> development models.
> 
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 08/05/2013 06:00 PM, server-devel-request at lists.laptop.org wrote:
> >I don't see any unstable version of xs-, and I don't see any stable
> >version of XSCE.  I'd like to see both.  The former would indicate
> >ongoing development of xs- and the latter would indicate finalisation
> >of XSCE.
> 
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