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

[Kim Quirk]

Sorry for the confusion. There are no resources being diverted from our
current goals of getting the Sugar-based desktop out the door. This is the
product we all want to see succeed!

Kim



On 9/11/07, Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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