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=== All sugar developers ===
=== All sugar developers ===
Services are intended to decentralize sugar development process e.g. if you have some idea in mind, you can start pushing it through entirely release queue to get it in the next(maybe not nearest) Sucrose release. The core issue here is that there are only YES and NO answers to inclusion your feature to Sucrose, so if there is 51% against and 49% for inclusion, feature could be rejected/postponed. Services make development process more flexible and let developer benefit 49% of users.
Services are intended to decentralize Sugar development process. If you have some idea in mind, you can start pushing it through the Sucrose release queue to get it in the next (maybe not nearest) release. However, since the release process is binary—either your feature is included or not—Services offers more flexibility. For example:
* some features are of arguable general benefit; Sugar Services would allow interested end users to efficiently test (and even deploy) such features;
* some feature are only stable in limited environments; Sugar Services would allow deployment in limited environmets without the risk of destabilizing the rest of Sugar.
A developer benefits from 0install [http://0install.net/goals.html features] by:
* let users of all(if service is not tied to particular sugar) deployed sugars, benefit from your feature instead of having it only in last Sucrose release;<br>for example [[Documentation_Team/Services/Activity_Triggers|Activity Triggers]] services
* letting users of all deployed Sucrose releases benefit from your new feature instead of having it only in a specific (latest) Sucrose release; for example [[Documentation_Team/Services/Activity_Triggers|Activity Triggers]] services;
See [[Activity Team/Documentation/Services/Service Developers Guide|Service Developers Guide]] to know how to create service.
See [[Activity Team/Documentation/Services/Service Developers Guide|Service Developers Guide]] to know how to create service.