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When Sugar Labs was very large, we found it convenient and effective to divide into teams.  This was one of the teams.

==Mission==
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== Meetings ==
The development team had regular IRC meetings on Tuesdays at 5PM ET (22UTC) in the #sugar-meeting channel of irc.freenode.net (See the Sugar Labs [[Sugar Labs/Events|calendar]]). One could find out more about the meeting time and upcoming and earlier meetings [[Development Team/Meetings|here]]. Help: [[Sugar_Labs/Communication channels#IRC.2C_Internet_Relay_Chat |Using IRC]]

== Team lead ==
The Development Team coordinator position carried administrative tasks such as organizing regular meetings, keeping the TODO list updated, keeping the development team membership list updated, and making sure that the team had clear goals and was kept focused.  We were accepting nominations for an election for this position, see [[Development_Team/Team_Lead_Candidates_2010_05]], but the position is now open.

== Releases ==
See the [[Development Team/Release]] page.
== Release manager ==
We have defined the role of the release manager for the past 3 releases as the following:

* Making sure that the [[Features/Policy]] is followed by submitters,
* Completing a formal test before release,
* Making releases.

== Schedule ==
A schedule was based on [http://live.gnome.org/Schedule GNOME releases], a 6-month release cycle.

Now, releases are scheduled in an ad-hoc manner if at all.
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The development team hosted mini tutorials covering short (five-minute) topics relevant to writing Sugar activities. Please refer to the [[Development Team/Mini tutorials|Mini tutorials page]] to sign up for teaching a topic. -->

== Development systems ==
All of core Sugar development except system-dependent modifications can be done on a standard computer by [https://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html installing Sugar].

Activity (aka application) development can be done in many environments using pre-compiled [[Supported_systems#Sucrose|packages]] ("sucrose") or [[Supported_systems#Starch|images]] ("starch").  For example, see [[Debian]], [[Ubuntu]], or [[Fedora]].

See also the now unmaintained [[Platform Team/Sweets]] technology.

== Document your work ==
See [[Features/Feature Template]] for an example.

== Code review ==
Patches to Sugar are more than welcome. There are guidelines for [[Development Team/Code Review|code review]] to get them accepted.

== Package Sucrose for your distribution ==
* Currently there are efforts to maintain Sugar as part of [[Debian]], [[Ubuntu]], and [[Fedora]].
* Help us maintain good communication with distribution packagers to assist in this. Join the [[Platform Team]].

== Kill Bugs! ==
* Help test. See [[{{Upcoming Stable Release}}/Testing]].
* See our bug tracking system https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ or Issues on GitHub.

== Project Ideas ==
* Want to work on an interesting Sugar project, or have an idea of your own?  Check the [[Development Team/Project Ideas|project ideas]] page.
* Prepare a new Sugar [[Features/Policy|Feature]].
* See the [[Summer of Code]] project; ideas, students, mentors, and organization help are welcomed.
== Platform Release Cycles ==

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[[Template:Current Stable Release]] holds the release number.

See [[{{Current Stable Release}}/Notes]] for the release notes.

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== Subpages ==
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