Sugar on a Stick/Roadmap
This page contains an overview of our plannings for the next release. Drafts and ideas go in here, as well as information regarding deadlines in the roadmap. Feel free to add requests, for example of new activities, below. They will be tracked, together with the overall progress, here.
Releases
Upcoming Release: Release Candidate on 2009/06/24
Blockers
Here's a list of known blockers, which directly affect the next release. Now what is really important is that every single issue that should get resolved for our release candidate needs to be tagged with the milestone soas_linuxtag.
| Blocker Name | Trac Ticket |
| set keyboard layout from control panel | #407 & #720 |
| include sugar-update-control | #105 |
| fix all non-working activities | --- |
| get the latest stuff packaged as rpms | --- |
Roadmap
The roadmap for the most recent SoaS beta release, whose press release went out on April 22nd, has been moved to the archive as new developments come up.
This is our preliminary roadmap for the SoaS Release Candidate. Please make sure to follow it closely!
| target date | milestone |
| from now on | please report any issues you encounter in our trac instance |
| 2009-05-26 | Fedora 11 Final Release, will be used for composing the latest images |
| following days | testing, testing, testing; last minute changes are allowed |
| 2009-06-10 | last day to update packages, non-working stuff will be removed |
| following week | extensive testing of subsequent snapshots; no new features allowed without approval |
| 2009-06-17 | final image creation takes place |
| following week | USB keys are preloaded with the image |
| 2009-06-24 | distribution starts on LinuxTag |
Activities
This is the list of activities on SoaS which will currently be included using .xo files. Please file suggestions here with a short note and make sure that the activity is actually on activities.sugarlabs.org. Of course, it also needs to have a maintainer!
| Activity Name | Sugar Activities |
| CartoonBuilder | yes |
| Develop | yes |
| FlipSticks | yes |
| FreeCell | yes |
| InfoSlicer | yes |
| IRC | yes |
| JigsawPuzzle | yes |
| JokeMachine | yes |
| Labyrinth | yes |
| Memorize | yes |
| Moon | yes |
| Paint | yes |
| Poll | yes |
| Record | yes |
| SliderPuzzle | yes |
| Speak | yes |
| Story Builder | yes |
| TamTamEdit | yes |
| TamTamJam | yes |
| TamTamMini | yes |
| TamTamSynthLab | yes |
| ViewSlides | yes |
Packaging
These packages are directly included in Fedora and will be pulled as RPMs. It's important for us to get the latest bits in SoaS, so these need to be up to date!
Glucose modules (F11)
| Module Name | Version (Sugar) | Version (Fedora) | Notes |
| sugar-toolkit | 0.84.4 | 0.84.4 | done 2009-04-06 |
| sugar | 0.84.4 | 0.84.4 | done 2009-04-06 |
| sugar-artwork | 0.84.1 | 0.84.1 | done 2009-03-11 |
| sugar-base | 0.84.1 | 0.84.1 | done 2009-03-03 |
| sugar-datastore | 0.84.0 | 0.84.0 | done 2009-03-03 |
| sugar-presence-service | 0.84.0 | 0.84.0 | done 2009-03-04 |
| etoys | 4.0.2212 | 4.0.2206 | to be done |
| hulahop | 0.4.9 | 0.4.9 | done 2009-03-30 |
Fructose modules (F11)
| Activity Name | Version (Sugar) | Version (Fedora) | Notes |
| read | 66 | 66 | done 2009-04-06 |
| chat | 65 | 65 | done 2009-04-01 |
| terminal | 25 | 25 | done 2009-03-28 |
| imageviewer | 7 | 7 | done 2009-03-24 |
| jukebox | 8 | 8 | done 2009-04-06 |
| turtleart | 41 | 41 | done |
| browse | 109 | 109 | done 2009-04-06 |
| etoys | 101 | 100 | to be done (part of the etoys package) |
| write | 63 | 63 | done 2009-03-03 |
| calculate | 28 | 28 | done 2009-01-30 |
| log | 18 | 18 | done 2009-04-06 |
| pippy | 31 | 25 | to be done |