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Sucrose Development

Sucrose 0.83.x is an unstable development series intended for testing and development purposes. Sucrose uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status, so this unstable 0.83.x series will eventually become the 0.84 stable release.

Schedule

Date	Task	Notes
Sep 1 2008	Development start	New goals proposal
Sep 29	Sucrose 0.83.1 Tarballs Due	New modules proposal
Sep 30	Sucrose 0.83.1 Development Release	Finalize modules and goals
Oct 29	Sucrose 0.83.2 Tarballs Due
Oct 30	Sucrose 0.83.2 Development Release
Nov 20	Sucrose 0.83.3 Tarballs Due
Nov 21	Sucrose 0.83.3 Development Release
Dec 6	Sucrose 0.83.4 Tarballs Due
Dec 7	Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release
Dec 20	Sucrose 0.83.5 Tarballs Due
Dec 21	Sucrose 0.83 Beta 1 (0.83.5)	Feature, ABI, String freeze
Jan 15	Sucrose 0.83.6 Tarballs Due
Jan 16	Sucrose 0.83 Beta 2 (0.83.6)
Jan 30	Sucrose 0.83.7 Tarballs Due
Jan 31	Sucrose 0.83 Beta 3 (0.83.7)
Feb 12	Sucrose 0.83.8 Tarballs Due
Feb 13	Sucrose 0.83 Release Candidate 1 (0.83.8)
Feb 19	Sucrose 0.83.8 Tarballs Due
Feb 20	Sucrose 0.83 Release Candidate 2 (0.83.9)
Mar 2	Sucrose 0.84 Tarballs Due	Hard code freeze
Mar 3	Sucrose 0.84 Final Release!

Glucose Modules

• etoys
• sugar
• sugar-base
• sugar-datastore
• sugar-presence-service
• sugar-toolkit
• sugar-artwork

Fructose Modules

• chat-activity
• web-activity
• read-activity
• log-activity
• write-activity
• calculate-activity
• terminal-activity
• pippy-activity
• etoys-activity

Glucose Dependencies

• hippo-canvas
• telepathy-glib
• telepathy-gabble
• telepathy-salut
• telepathy-python

Fructose Dependencies

• pyabiword
• hulahop
• squeak

Goals

• Greater Reliability
• Greater Performace
• Collaboration
• Improved Platform
• Sugar everywhere

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This list looks like features not goals to me.

• Collaboration scalability
• Responsive UI
• Stable activities API
• Sugar everywhere
• Compatibility with desktop applications
• Quality and reliability

My suggestion for goals in this release are:

• Greater Reliability and Performance
• Easier to Deploy and Maintain
• Collaboration

From http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0#Technical_Strategy

I group your list of features in to those goals as follows

• Greater Reliability and Performance
  
• Responsive UI
• Stable activities API
• Quality and reliability

• Easier to Deploy and Maintain
  

None

• Collaboration
  
• Collaboration scalability

The following don't seem to fit the goals of 9.1 (and 8.4?) release. For these I suggest we choose one of the following:

1. Find a place in the overall goals
2. Create new overall goals and fit them in
3. Don't work on these
4. Make an exception by defining the user benefit of these and showing demand.

• Next generation journal
• Shell improvements
• Sugar everywhere
• Compatibility with desktop applications
• Robust Clipboard
• Make activities rock!

BTW I hope you don't mind these comments as edits to your page. Back them off and copy to the discussion page if you prefer or let me know how to submit my suggestions. Thanks Gregorio 16:33, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Good suggestions Gregorio, thanks a lot. I'll try to refactor things taking them in account. When that's done, I'd appreciate another review.

--Marco

Other features

• Next generation journal
• Journal entry sharing
• Robust Clipboard
• Make activities rock!
• Shell improvements

Related documents

• OLPC 9.1 release goals.