[sugar] Fwd: Roadmap update

[Riccardo Lucchese]

(apologises to Marco for sending him two copies as I forgot to cc the
list on my first try)

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<marcopg at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Marco Pesenti Gritti <marcopg at sugarlabs.org>
> Date: Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:40 AM
> Subject: Roadmap update
> To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>
>
> Hello,
>
> as you might have learned from the various Sugarcamp reports, OLPC is not
> able to fund Sugar development anymore. The only area of
> synergy/intersection might be support for standard linux applications. We
> have to start walking on our own.
That is `zero olpc contractors working full time on Sugar' ?

>
> As you have probably guessed, this is going to have strong consequences on
> the roadmap. We will have to punt part of the work and to reasses
> priorities. We started doing it at Sugarcamp and we will continue on this
> mailing list and during the Development team weekly meetings. The 0.84
> release will be unchanged, but the feauture freeze might be adjusted a bit.
>
> One of my first priorities will be to do whatever I can to make it easier to
> new contributors to step in. Walter and David are working hard to get more
> companies involved. It's a *difficult* time, we will need everyone help to
> make 0.84 a success.
>
> Marco

best regards,
riccardo