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This page contains an overview of our plans for the next release. Drafts and ideas may go in here, as well as information regarding deadlines in the roadmap. More detailed pages for planning include Sugar on a Stick/Goals, Sugar on a Stick/Proposals, & Sugar on a Stick/Resources. Feel free to add requests, for example for new activities, below. They will be tracked, together with the overall progress, here.
Note: The Roadmap for the upcoming stable release of the Sugar learning platform is found at 0.114/Roadmap. And proposals at Design Team/Proposals & Features.
Sugar on a Stick is a class of distributions of the Sugar learning platform that enables installation on removable and writable media like Live USB or Secure Digital cards.
Releases
Upcoming Release: Sugar on a Stick v2 Beta Release (scheduled for 2009-08-30)
All SoaS tickets in Trac: http://www.tinyurl.com/soas-tickets
What is really important is that every single issue that should get resolved in time needs to be tagged with the appropriate milestone - please keep this in mind when filing tickets! Also, please support us by submitting your hardware information here!
Roadmap
The roadmaps for the SoaS beta and v1 final release have been moved to the archive as new development comes up. The roadmap for the way to v2 later this year is now available!
Preliminary Roadmap (v2)
| target date | milestone | notes |
| brainstorming phase | please submit ideas for features | |
| 2009-08-17 | Fedora Test Day infrastructure ready | kudos to Mel! :) |
| 2009-08-18 | Fedora 12 Alpha Release | |
| 2009-08-21 | Sugar 0.86 Alpha Release (0.85.3) | |
| 2009-08-30 | Sugar on a Stick v2 Beta Release | based on F12 Alpha; not widely announced |
| 2009-09-03 | Test Day | in cooperation with Fedora; confirmed! |
| incorporation of fixes and updates | changes must arrive for freeze | |
| 2009-09-18 | Sugar 0.86 Final Release | immediate packaging required |
| 2009-09-22 | Fedora 12 Final Freeze | |
| 2009-11-03 | Fedora 12 Final Release | |
| 2009-11-10 | Sugar on a Stick v2 Freeze * | no changes allowed without approval |
| release candidates get composed | only blocker fixes permitted | |
| 2009-11-17 | Wiki & Documentation must be ready | including splash for main page |
| 2009-11-22 | Final Image Creation takes place | |
| 2009-11-24 | Sugar on a Stick v2 Release | RH Magazine Story; to be confirmed |
* Freeze Policy
- No new features are allowed to be introduced
- Every change must be approved by the development team
- Only blocker fixes are permitted
Preliminary Features (v2)
Features for the next release are collected here. If you have an idea to add, please do so below, stating that it is a proposal!
- (This is a bit of a mix of core Sugar feature proposals and Sugar on a Stick distribution proposals.)
- Automated Bug Reporting (Bug Buddy & ABRT)
- Firstboot Inclusion (Theming, Modules, Language Support)
- Metacity (instead of Matchbox)
- Installation Support (using the ZyX-LiveInstaller)
- New, upstream, Plymouth Boot Screen
- Joint Release for each file (.iso / .vmdk / .img / ...)
- Promote possibility to dd .iso files to an USB key
- School Server Integration (ds-backup-*)
- Upgrading Sugar Activities (Updates & File Format)
- Providing Continuous Distribution Updates
- (proposal) Bug #833 Check box on Networking page of Control panel to turn on/off Jabber with out restart for local only networking collaboration.
- add your proposal title here (proposal)
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 | Sugar on a Stick |
| CartoonBuilder | yes | yes |
| Clock | yes | yes |
| Colors | yes | yes |
| FlipSticks | yes | yes |
| FreeCell | yes | yes |
| Get Internet Archive Books | yes | yes |
| InfoSlicer | yes | yes |
| IRC | yes | yes |
| JigsawPuzzle | yes | yes |
| JokeMachine | yes | yes |
| Labyrinth | yes | yes |
| Library | yes | yes |
| Memorize | yes | yes |
| Moon | yes | yes |
| Paint | yes | yes |
| Physics | yes | yes |
| Poll | yes | yes |
| Read Etexts | yes | yes |
| Record | yes | yes |
| SliderPuzzle | yes | yes |
| Speak | yes | yes |
| Story Builder | yes | yes |
| ViewSlides | yes | yes |
| add yours here | link | proposal |
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! Note: This list is outdated and needs an overhaul for the next release!
Glucose modules (F11)
| Module Name | Version (Sugar) | Version (Fedora) | Notes |
| sugar-toolkit | 0.84.4 | 0.84.4 | done 2009-04-06 |
| sugar | 0.84.6 | 0.84.6 | done 2009-04-16 |
| 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 | 4.0.2212 | done 2009-06-03 |
| hulahop | 0.4.9 | 0.4.9 | done 2009-03-30 |
Fructose modules (F11)
| Activity Name | Version (Sugar) | Version (Fedora) | Notes |
| read | 67 | 67 | done 2009-06-20 |
| chat | 65 | 65 | done 2009-04-01 |
| terminal | 25 | 25 | done 2009-03-28 |
| imageviewer | 10 (to be distributed: 7) | 7 | to be done |
| jukebox | 11 (to be distributed: 8) | 8 | done 2009-04-06 |
| turtleart | 51 | 41 | done 2009-06-03 |
| browse | 108 | 108 | done 2009-04-06 |
| etoys | 101 | 101 (part of the etoys package) | done 2009-06-03 |
| write | 63 | 63 | done 2009-03-03 |
| calculate | 30 | 30 | done 2009-05-18 |
| log | 18 | 18 | done 2009-04-06 |
| pippy | 31 | 25 | to be done (will be shipped from a.sl.o: 31) |