Sugar on a Stick/Coconut

Sugar on a Stick - Coconut

 * a Sugar environment you can carry in your pocket

Release announcement

 * See this Announcement

Contributing to Sugar on a Stick
With v5 of Sugar on a Stick, the team recognizes the need to continue to improve its release processes and engineering sustainability. New contributors are urged to get involved and help us move towards our long-term vision of bringing stability and deployability to Sugar's personalized learning environment.

If you'd like to contribute to the next version, due for release in November of 2011, join our mailing list and visit Sugar on a Stick. All types of contributions are welcome, from the technical to the pedagogical, and we're happy to teach what we know and learn what you have to share.

Thank you to all the people involved for their awesome work!

Introduction
This section is a recap of the events during the v5 Coconut release cycle of Sugar on a Stick.


 * SoaS v5 is based on Fedora 15, and has been delayed. From the Fedora wiki,
 * "The move to NetworkManager 0.9 came after the feature freeze, and the Sugar desktop wasn't accounted for in the scramble to get alternate desktop environments working with it."

Beta Release

 * Download (Coconut Beta) 09/12/2011

Re-approved as a Fedora Spin
"[Spins are alternate versions of Fedora, tailored for various types of users via hand-picked application sets and other customizations." --from http://spins.fedoraproject.org/about

See the release notes for v3 and v4 for history on the transition to a Fedora Spin.

Feature process

 * Features/Soas_V5/

QA

 * Much thanks to Peter Robinson who did a majority of the work to program, prepare and coordinate the work with many other sugar developers for this release.
 * Thomas Gilliard did field-testing (building real SoaS sticks from .iso files and testing on those) - it's the closest thing to systematic testing we've had yet, though we still have a ways to go.
 * Thank you also to James Cameron in Australia for his testing help!
 * Much help was also provided by the team at #fedora-qa; freenode IRC

Documentation
A new release of documentation should come out with each new release of SoaS (although resources have prevented this).

The Fedora-site documentation may not be an improvement over our Sugar Labs, ad hoc wiki documentation methods, as the tools needed to participate are more complicated, and the Spin page documentation is not open to editing. The Fedora Sugar on a Stick pages have not been edited since Mirabelle was released in May 2010. The attempt to better support a small number of known, working, "how to set up SoaS", instructions has not yet been fulfilled.

Major accomplishments this release cycle

 * Expanded discussion with upstream Fedora especially Fedora QA team and the new AutoQA processes. Initial integration in the Fedora Desktop QA testing process with initial guidelines and test process created. This will be expanded in Fedora 15 for the SoaS v5 release.

Press coverage
Feel free to add links to press coverage you find about Coconut to this section.