Final 3.6 Plan

Daniel Vainsencher danielv at netvision.net.il
Wed May 14 18:55:49 UTC 2003


> [Q] What means "We" in this context? We=Guides or We=Community?
We=community.

And while you're thinking about packages, keep in mind that we now have
two targets you should consider always. The alpha-stream image is going
to be Basic, and we should thinking mostly in term of what to pull out.
But we'll also have Full, which will include everything we have now
(that works), and if you think something makes a cool demo, we might
want to add to Full more stuff than it has now.

In fact, the concept of what exactly Full should be could use some
discussion.

One thing to keep in mind is that Basic will get most of the Guide's
attention, we'll probably push Full as *the* image a newcomer should
download.

And how basic should Basic be?

Well, I think we should think about it as a template that includes
everything that will be common to every developer/user image, and
nothing else. So it will need a UI, but maybe not two. I think it should
have zero applications, not even development stuff. Almost no media. We
might not get there by 3.6, but that's what I think we should be aiming
at. We could start removing dev stuff after 3.6 and SM1.1, because after
those anyone can maintain the unofficial Development image (or
something) which will be Basic+dev stuff

These are just some thoughts to think about "I like this package, where
should I propose it go?"

Daniel

Daniel



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