[Testing] Ship Meeting Agenda, for 9/10/07 (today) 11am EDT

[Christopher Blizzard]

On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 10:48 +0000, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Marco,
> 
> Walter has been worrying about this independently with RH, and we're not
> putting any of our OLPC resources on it.  It his for possible sales for
> a program in the developed world to fund countries who can't afford to
> buy laptops at all.
> 
>                             - Jim

Kim says in the meeting minutes: "Gnome desktop - we had a discussion
about where the communications disconnect has been since Nicholas, Mary
Lou, Robert, and Walter (and maybe Jim) have all known about the need
for a RedHat supported desktop for months."

The first time that we heard anything official was about a week and a
half ago.  So it's news to us.  So Marco's not the only one surprised.

--Chris

> 
> 
> On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 11:03 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > Kim Quirk wrote:
> > >
> > >     * Gnome desktop - we had a discussion about where the
> > >       communications disconnect has been since Nicholas, Mary Lou,
> > >       Robert, and Walter (and maybe Jim) have all known about the need
> > >       for a RedHat supported desktop for months.
> > >           o There is no plan internally for this project. Perhaps the
> > >             plan was to do it entirely outside of OLPC people.
> > >           o Kim's concern is that if this alternate desktop is not
> > >             well supported it will still reflect badly on OLPC. She is
> > >             also concerned about prioritizing the usage olpc resources
> > >             that have high priority bugs and features for trial-3 and
> > >             FRS. If/when this is an issue she will bring it up with
> > >             Walter.
> > >
> > 
> > Kim, can you please elaborate a bit on the scope and on the uses of this 
> > new project?
> > 
> > A lot of us are working hard on Sugar trying to make it successful 
> > despite the self-evident disproportion between the available resources 
> > and the time/requirements. Seeing resources moved on another project is 
> > both surprising and demotivating.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Marco