[sugar] Proposal: Activity developers mailing list

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Greg Smith wrote:
> Hi Bernie,
>
> I read the lists in digest except for Sur which I get individually 
> because I was the first admin for that the list (can't seem to turn that 
> off :-(
>
> I focus 100% on delivering the best experience possible for users of the 
> 400K XOs shipped so far (50K more shipping every month). So I scan or 
> read all the lists on lists.laptop.org and I try to stay up to date with 
>   wiki.laptop.org.
>   

Hello Greg,

Sugar is a project with a very large scope. Many of the core 
contributors believes that the resources OLPC is able to devote to it 
are not going to be sufficient to fullfill it's long term goals or even 
to get near enough to them.

We need to make Sugar available and used also outside OLPC to attract 
more contributors. That's the very reason of the existence of SugarLabs. 
On the long term that's going to be very useful to those 400K XOs in the 
field.

That requires to establish Sugar as an independent FOSS project and 
building a community around it. And it's important for the identity of 
the project that the mailing lists and other services are available from 
its domain.

After 8.2 is out and we are all a little less pressed, I'd like to 
propose that:

1 We move sugar at laptop.org to devel at sugarlabs.org. OLPC specific issues 
related to Sugar can be discussed on devel at laptop.org.
2 We move Fructose git repositories on sugarlabs.org.

They would be a couple of good steps towards the long-term goal and they 
would not hinder in any way the immediate OLPC goals.

Cheers,
Marco