Re: disable color balancing on XO webcam

2010-11-01 Thread Anish Mangal
@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Anish Mangal an...@sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list

OK prompt appeared while shutting down a secured laptop.

2011-02-03 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, I just observed a strange behavior on a secured XO-1 laptop that I've never seen before. I was shutting down a dextrose-2 xo-1 machine and accidentally pressed the power button (i think) while shutting down and it invoked the OK prompt (on a secured laptop!). On the top corner of the screen,

Re: [Dextrose] Problem for attach files in Browse activity

2011-03-15 Thread Anish Mangal
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 16:18, Daniel Castelo dcast...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: If I want to attach a file using Browse (for example writing a new email in gmail) I don't see the Journal, a have to browse in the common linux file system. I am using the build 860 (10.1.3) for XO 1.0 (I found

Re: [Dextrose] Problem for attach files in Browse activity

2011-03-15 Thread Anish Mangal
Can you crosspost this as a comment on bugs.sl.o #2593. It'd be useful to have all relevant history in one place for someone trying to debug this. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 18:43, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Castelo

Re: [Dextrose] Problem for attach files in Browse activity

2011-03-16 Thread Anish Mangal
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:15, Daniel Castelo dcast...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 16:18, Daniel Castelo dcast...@plan.ceibal.edu.uy wrote: If I want to attach a file using Browse

New Dextrose-2 build os508dx

2011-04-01 Thread Anish Mangal
x-posting to olpc-devel again -- Forwarded message -- From: Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.org Date: Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 16:20 Subject: New Dextrose-2 build os508dx To: Dextrose Mailing List dextr...@lists.sugarlabs.org, OLPC Devel devel@lists.laptop.org, Sugar Devel sugar-de

New Dextrose-2 build os508dx

2011-04-03 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, This mail is a notification of the international release for Dextrose-2 non-gnome builds for the XO-1 and XO-1.5 laptops. Among new additions to this release is the automatic crash reporting and manual feedback feature. Users can click the 'submit a report' icon in the frame and submit

Corrupt xo1.5 signed q3a62 bootfw file

2011-04-07 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, The signed firmware q3a62 link for xo1.5 [1] seems corrupt to me. While trying to upgrade the firmware on a 1.5, I get a message saying 'bad crc'. Can somebody check this? [1] http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/q3a62/bootfw.zip -- Anish ___ Devel

Re: Corrupt xo1.5 signed q3a62 bootfw file

2011-04-07 Thread Anish Mangal
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 19:09, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 15:53 -0400, Anish Mangal wrote: Hi, The signed firmware q3a62 link for xo1.5 [1] seems corrupt to me. While trying to upgrade the firmware on a 1.5, I get a message saying 'bad crc'. Can somebody check

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] XO1 | Same hardware, slower internet

2011-04-13 Thread Anish Mangal
? On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 19:25, Lucian Branescu lucian.brane...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 March 2011 23:01, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.org wrote: Hi, With time, as hardware gets more complex, software gets bloated up to use the excess processor cycles available. A part

[ANNOUNCE] New Dextrose-3 development release: Alpha-2

2011-09-25 Thread Anish Mangal
-1.fc14.i686 ==Removed packages== - - mesa-dri-drivers-7.9-5.fc14.i686 - - prelink-0.4.3-4.fc14.i686 - - ssmtp-2.61-15.fc14.i686 [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose/3/Roadmap [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose/3/Feature_Freeze - -- Anish Mangal Dextrose Project Manager P.S

Re: 11.3.0 release candidate 4 (build 883) released

2011-11-01 Thread Anish Mangal
fails to sart (requires reboot) - no additional oopses recorded The oops is available in #11128. HTH Niels - -- Anish Mangal Sugar Labs -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: XO-3 competitor?

2011-11-17 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/2011 08:00 AM, John Watlington wrote: or replacement ? I haven't been able to get a hold of one, in order to test it. There have been other articles about the $35 price. I find it hard to believe, especially at the volumes quoted.

Re: XO-3 competitor?

2011-11-17 Thread Anish Mangal
On Thu 17 Nov 2011 09:16:23 PM IST, John Watlington wrote: Here was the other article about this tablet that I found interesting: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/hardware/Aakash-cost-below-35-govt-buying-at-49/articleshow/10301549.cms Here's another:

Re: [OLPC Engineering] [Techteam] New F14-arm build os21

2011-12-21 Thread Anish Mangal
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 07:21, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 11:32 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: That's exactly the feedback I was looking for, thanks. That's a UI bug in Sugar. I would strongly prefer the Sugar environment to behave more like

Re: Oooh! Oooh! OMG! OO.org!

2012-01-18 Thread Anish Mangal
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 21:42, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: Peter Robinson dixit:  OpenOffice.org (the 10.3.x series for XO-1.75) is built. It'll be signed and pushed out to the mirrors shortly. Yay! I'm looking forward to testing this one! Gotta give it a couple hours to be on

Error while generating build for xo-1.75 on an xo-1.75

2012-01-19 Thread Anish Mangal
or inconsistent file-type? Regards, Anish Mangal | an...@activitycentral.com Dextrose Project Manager P.S. Thanks to martin_langhoff and jnettlnet with help in debugging on #olpc-devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo

Re: Error while generating build for xo-1.75 on an xo-1.75

2012-01-20 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/20/2012 06:10 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.com wrote: I deleted these packages from the OOB cache and tried after a while and it worked. That's the right workaround

Re: [OLPC-AU] lid close while shutting down

2012-02-14 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi Sridhar, My guess is that it would shut down OR go into suspend. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:04, Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@laptop.org.au wrote: What happens if the XO's lid is closed after the shutdown option is selected in Sugar? Is there a chance that the XO does not shut down - e.g.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-01 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed 02 May 2012 09:39:50 AM IST, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:33:36AM +0530, Ajay Garg wrote: Thanks James for the reply. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2012 at

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-02 Thread Anish Mangal
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Ajay Garg ajaygargn...@gmail.com wrote: Just that, we do not wish to set up a mesh-network, as per say. I think you are missing the background reason here. AFAIK, reasons to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-02 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/02/2012 07:59 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Ajay Garg ajaygargn...@gmail.com wrote: Good News. I managed to get this working (albeit via changes in sugar). The details are at ::

Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-04 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am curious to know why we are not periodically checking file systems after every N boots on the XO laptop. The biggest reason I can assume is because every Nth time the system will appear to boot very slowly to the user thus creating the

Re: Checking filesystems periodically

2012-05-04 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri 04 May 2012 07:57:47 PM IST, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, On Fri, May 04 2012, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, On Fri, May 04 2012, Daniel Drake wrote: Until F17 we haven't had a good way of communicating this via the boot animation. Now we can do that

os-9 testing

2012-05-13 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Tested the os9 build for a few basic tests, reports below: 12.1.0 os-9 testing on a XO-1.5 HS ? Does not suspend on lid close ? Hangs while shutdown (at the ul-warning screen) ? Journal detects /run/media/olpc/OLPCRoot as a mount and shows the

Re: Wanting to know a bit of (NetworkManager) workflow upon resume-from-suspend

2012-05-14 Thread Anish Mangal
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:02 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Are there any deployments that still want the mesh to work?  It might be simpler to pull it out now, given that only XO-1 supports it. FWIW, Py, Uy, don't want or use it. AU uses only xo-1.5's so no mesh. +1 from me to

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-08 Thread Anish Mangal
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote: Sitting in a lab here in Kenya with about 60 XO 1.5's all at standard 885 Did shutdowns on all boxes 3 times (180 shutdowns) - all with right-click on centre icon and choose shutdown - after they were up for 5 mins or

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-08 Thread Anish Mangal
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: Hi folks, the Dextrose team has been hunting a bug on XO-1.5, on their variant of 11.3.x (Dextrose 3 or DX3), and they are pointing out that

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-11 Thread Anish Mangal
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Martin Langhoff mar...@laptop.org wrote:  - Seems to be related to umount of /home failing. Adding sync ; sleep 2; before umount seems to cure it; that's their current workaround. Cutting

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-14 Thread Anish Mangal
FYI, The testing efforts (with old v new SD cards are being recorded at http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1323) On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 20:06 +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:11 PM, Martin Langhoff mar

Passphrase must be re-entered when XO loses then regains wifi connection

2012-06-14 Thread Anish Mangal
://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1305 Cheers, Anish Anish Mangal Dextrose Project Manager ActivityCentral -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP2Zt4AAoJEBoxUdDHDZVp5ugH/jSa5xeuWmrRaCMC9EqNhm+k /VPdmtYL

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-14 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 June 2012 01:16 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:03:39PM +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: FYI, The testing efforts (with old v new SD cards are being recorded at http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1323) I've found

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-14 Thread Anish Mangal
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:09 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 06:51:58PM +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: * Insert bad microSD. Flash the new build (using fs-update) * Test * Insert good microSD. Flash the new build (using fs-update) * Test In your testing

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-15 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi Martin, James et. al. It seems that the microSD card was definitely one of the main reasons why the hang on shutdown was happening [1] [1] http://dev.laptop.org.au/issues/1323 Cheers, Anish On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2012

Re: On XO-1.5 with 11.3.0/11.3.1 -- hang during shutdown?

2012-06-15 Thread Anish Mangal
? And so on. - -- Anish Mangal Dextrose Project Manager Activity Central -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJP2/xTAAoJEBoxUdDHDZVp33QH/jfYUQYyQLLt6+cAH/aYAEhU yymgGEZzmCqhn+i92CuD1LoChblV

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to disable Authentication Required By Wireless Network popup in Fedora 17

2012-06-21 Thread Anish Mangal
OLPC regularly releases (and announces on the olpc-devel mailing list) development images on download.laptop.org I think the release candidate version of their f17/0.96 builds is available here: http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/ Hope this helps. On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:56 AM,

Re: [Sugar-devel] glibc-devel F14 package for armv5tel

2012-07-12 Thread Anish Mangal
could it be a problem with mirros? http://download.sugarlabs.org/dextrose/testing/dx3/rpms/i386/os/ btw, there are a few glibc rpm's present there ^^ (dx repo) but i386 arch. I have to check why they were created. Don't think they should be blocking the update though. On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at

Re: Thanks Buddy !!!

2012-08-17 Thread Anish Mangal
a tendency to cause forgetfulness. But Anish can never be forgotten. Phir milenge .. :) Regards, Ajay cjl Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator - -- Anish Mangal Dextrose Project Manager Activity Central -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux

Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

2012-11-19 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, I have received requests that the Telescope activity [1] be renamed to Scope, since, off late it has been used in conjunction with not just a monocular, but small microscope attachments (the kind which were distributed at the SF summit). In that light, the name Telescope is no longer widely

Re: Renaming the Telescope activity to Scope

2012-11-19 Thread Anish Mangal
on the icon? :-) cjl Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Anish Mangal an...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, I have received requests that the Telescope activity [1] be renamed to Scope, since, off late it has been used in conjunction with not just a monocular

Re: Policy for non-responsive maintainers

2013-01-10 Thread Anish Mangal
to join in. -- _ // Bernie Innocenti \X/ http://codewiz.org -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel - -- Anish Mangal Sugar Labs -BEGIN

Re: Policy for non-responsive maintainers

2013-01-10 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for screwing up the formatting. Thunderbird can be quirky sometimes. On Thursday 10 January 2013 02:27 PM, Walter Bender wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Anish Mangal an...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thursday 10 January 2013 01:52 PM

Re: Kernel RPMs now auto-install to boot partition

2013-03-22 Thread Anish Mangal
awesome! On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: wow. somehow i didn't think this would ever happen. thank you!! paul daniel wrote: Hi, Found some time to implement something that has been desired for a while: now when you install a kernel RPM on the

[ANNOUNCE] OLPC Hack '13 New Delhi

2013-05-24 Thread Anish Mangal
We are hosting the inaugural olpc/sugar New Delhi hacksprint on 8-9 June next month. We hope that this will help kiskstart a community of passionate volunteers who will make positive contributions to the ecosystem. Since you guys form an integral part of olpc/sugar, it would be great if you could

Re: [IAEP] an anecdote from Bhagmalpur

2013-06-30 Thread Anish Mangal
Interest based learning FTW! :-) On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: An interesting anecdote from Bhagmalpur, India (http://bhagmalpur.wordpress.com) We just turned on the Internet two weeks ago (thx to Anish Mangal and Kartik Perisetla), but power has been

[Server-devel] Reminder: XSCE IRC scrum tomorrow (5th November), 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT on #schoolserver/irc.freenode.net

2013-11-04 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi fellow server-hackers! We will be having our eighth IRC scrum meeting tomorrow 5th November on 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT at the #schoolserver channel (irc.freenode.net). The meeting will be logged by a supybot instance. Please start filling in your points to discuss in the rolling agenda document

Re: [Sugar-devel] The quest for data

2014-01-09 Thread Anish Mangal
Sorry for being late to the party. Clearly the quest for data is a commonly shared one, with many different approaches, questions, and reporting/results. One of the already mentioned solutions is the sugar-stats package, originally developed by Aleksey, which have now been part of dextrose-sugar

Re: Announcing the development of OLPC OS 13.2.1

2014-06-12 Thread Anish Mangal
Great! Will test over the weekend. :) On Jun 12, 2014 10:56 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Announcing our next release cycle: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/13.2.1 Goal is to add hardware support for the new SIV121C camera sensor, and include wireless performance fixes published since

Re: [XSCE] Re: [Server-devel] ext2 vs ext4 vs exFAT for XO content SD cards?

2015-08-16 Thread Anish Mangal
Just to chime in, as has been already noted the max file size on a FAT32 system is 4GB. Some of the files we deal with are much larger than that. Ex. the Zim files for TED talks etc. are 8GB+ in size. Now we could always break them into smaller chunks, but that is another step. -- Anish On Mon,

[Server-devel] [ANNOUNCE] XSCE 0.2.1 - Phoebe

2013-03-11 Thread Anish Mangal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It gives me pleasure to announce the 0.2.1 release (Phoebe-http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiayiti/8477848448 ;-) ) of the School Server Community Edition project. Since the 0.1 release nearly a month ago, a significant amount of core XS

Re: [Server-devel] Best XSCE strategy for us in Pacific with XO-1.5 2GB Testing XSCE 3 on XO 1.5 2GB os855

2013-06-18 Thread Anish Mangal
One could probably try and roll a 2GB image so it can be installed directly to the internal flash memory... However you'd still need a SD card or a pen drive for storing content but they can be on separate partitions. This way you could add remove content without worrying about the server os

Re: [Server-devel] [support-gang] Value of remote access to School Servers.

2013-07-03 Thread Anish Mangal
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:40 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 02:06:04PM +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:54 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 12:45:35PM +0530, Anish Mangal wrote: James wrote

Re: [Server-devel] Powering a hard drive?

2013-08-16 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, I have been trying to crunch some numbers and the results seem interesting. I don't claim the calculations to be correct, so if someone with more knowledge (than me or a quick google search) can reply, would be very useful. The average difference between power consumption of an SSD and a HDD

Re: [Server-devel] Powering a hard drive?

2013-08-16 Thread Anish Mangal
. At 256 GB, it's even between the two when you consider other factors like durability; perhaps HDD has a slight edge here. Anything bigger than that, it makes the most sense to buy an HDD. Best, Anish On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Anish Mangal an...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Hi, I have been

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21

2013-08-17 Thread Anish Mangal
On Aug 17, 2013 5:02 AM, Adam Holt h...@laptop.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 07:40 +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: By the way, the need for the school server is closer to 50 hours per week than 24/7. Normally it needs to be

Re: [Server-devel] village server

2013-08-17 Thread Anish Mangal
/17/2013 02:35 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: I think this may be the case in a few other places as well. For example in Bhagmalpur, the school server isnt deployed at a school but a somewhat central location in the village and the children can access the server anytime, not just during school hours

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 76, Issue 21

2013-08-17 Thread Anish Mangal
Perhaps another avenue to explore could be SSHD's (a hybrid of SSDs and HDD's). They would cost significantly less than an SSD (a 500GB SSHD retails $80), yet meager on power consumption about 2.5-3W better than an HDD, 1-1.5W worse than an SSD. On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Anish Mangal

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] A couple of thoughts about moving forward.

2013-08-28 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi Tim, et. al., Since it was requested that I share my conversations with various deployments over the summer yielded in form of potential requirements for the school server, I created this wiki page: https://sugardextrose.org/projects/xsce/wiki/Primary_considerations There's obviously more

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] A couple of thoughts about moving forward.

2013-08-28 Thread Anish Mangal
, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: Thanks for making this public. What do you see as the next step? From: Anish Mangal Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 6:16 PM To: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com ; server-devel ; Tim Moody Subject: Re: [XSCE] A couple of thoughts about moving

[Server-devel] XSCE devel scrum on #schoolserver

2013-08-31 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, For some time now, people (including me) have been mulling the idea of having XSCE development meetings on IRC in complement to the weekly skype calls. Conversation on the *#schoolserver* channel has gradually been growing too. I would like to propose that we start holding weekly regular

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE devel scrum on #schoolserver

2013-08-31 Thread Anish Mangal
meeting on IRC vs. Skype is that IRC meetings axiomatically have transcripts. Anna On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.comwrote: Hi, For some time now, people (including me) have been mulling the idea of having XSCE development meetings on IRC

[Server-devel] DXS github repository

2013-09-03 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi George, Jerry, Tim, et. al. Please have a look at the DXS github repository. We have been able to use ansible playbooks to install a School Server. One can try setting it up using the instructions in the INSTALL.rst file. We also added Ajenti as an admin GUI, there are separate instructions

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE devel scrum on #schoolserver

2013-09-03 Thread Anish Mangal
, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.comwrote: Yes exactly. On Aug 31, 2013 7:22 PM, Kevin Mark kevin.m...@verizon.net wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:56:29PM -0700, Anish Mangal wrote: +1 We could use the services of xsceBOT :-) (uhps... sent

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE devel scrum on #schoolserver

2013-09-03 Thread Anish Mangal
as our voice meetings. Or was this separated by sev days for a reason? On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.comwrote: Okay, so based on the responses I've received so far, all weekdays, and 1600 UTC seems like the best time slot. So I'll propose we hold weekly

Re: [Server-devel] DXS github repository

2013-09-04 Thread Anish Mangal
priorities and goals for the release. Have fun and thanks for everything :) On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.com wrote: Hi George, Jerry, Tim, et. al. Please have a look at the DXS github repository. We have been able to use ansible playbooks to install

[Server-devel] DXS demo: highlights

2013-09-07 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, A demonstration of the capabilities of the Dextrose Server server happen earlier this week. It went on for much longer than anticipated, which I guess is a good thing. Thus, it's only fair that I follow up with this email to point out the highlights from the last week meeting. Agenda of the

[Server-devel] Dealing with huge xsce repo size

2013-09-07 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, This is perhaps a very contentious topic, so I want to discuss with extreme caution :-) The size of the git repository for xsce is 70MB The actual size of the files is 3MB Now, I don't want to hurt anyone's sensibilities AT ALL here, but I feel 70MB is quite a huge size for a repo

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Dealing with huge xsce repo size

2013-09-08 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi James, On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:04 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: I presume you speak of the git://dev.sugardextrose.org/xs-config repository. Yes I don't think 70 MB is a problem: - cloning is normally only done once, - developers can be advised to clone and then copy

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE devel scrum on #schoolserver

2013-09-09 Thread Anish Mangal
Reminder to all. XSCE scrum on IRC at 1600 UTC / 0900 PDT / 1100 CDT / 1200 EDT tomorrow. Please start thinking about your agenda items :-) On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.comwrote: Okay, so based on the responses I've received so far, all weekdays

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE devel scrum on #schoolserver

2013-09-10 Thread Anish Mangal
as recorded by the bot= https://sugardextrose.org/issues/4630 =Here are the full logs= https://sugardextrose.org/attachments/3132/schoolserver.2013-09-10-16.03.log.txt Best, Anish On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.comwrote: Reminder to all. XSCE scrum on IRC

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE testing note for the xsce-devel repo

2013-09-11 Thread Anish Mangal
[cc += Santi] This may be relevant for DXS too. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: It's been my understanding for a long time to always test from Master, which is http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/xsce-devel.repo. So that's the repo I've been downloading

Re: [Server-devel] DXS update - Sep 12

2013-09-12 Thread Anish Mangal
As always, this work can be tracked through the DXS github repository at https://github.com/activitycentral/dxs On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.comwrote: Hi, As mentioned before, we would like to be much more open with DXS communication, so

[Server-devel] DXS update - Sep 12

2013-09-12 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, As mentioned before, we would like to be much more open with DXS communication, so that decisions we make more sense in light of what's relevant for XSCE, and our upstreaming efforts. I am going to publish regular updates on what the DXS team is upto. We started a new codesprint internally

[Server-devel] Squid caching on the XSCE AND AP's

2013-09-14 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, I think it was Tony (please correct me if I'm wrong) who pointed out that network capacity in a School Server setup can be a hindrance (esp considering 200 kids, and 20 kids per AP). This weekend, I attempted to run squid on a TP-Link router. I used a USB drive as a storage medium, and

Re: [Server-devel] Squid caching on the XSCE AND AP's

2013-09-14 Thread Anish Mangal
, and will not have the RAM to cache anywhere close to the same number of files in memory as the schoolserver, or the storage space of a hard drive. The analogy doesn't run very well, as the AP is serving 20 users while the XS could be serving 200 or more. On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Anish

Re: [Server-devel] Squid caching on the XSCE AND AP's

2013-09-14 Thread Anish Mangal
see this potentially helping or hurting. If every AP along the way cached data those closest to the XS could be thrashing their caches a lot. On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.comwrote: On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: Squid caching on the XSCE AND AP's

2013-09-15 Thread Anish Mangal
, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.com wrote: Hi Samuel, Thx for pushing for more clarity, to be honest, this is very much an experiment at this point. I don't have a single line of argument, but I'm trying to look for ways in which things can be improved. So

[Server-devel] Reminder: XSCE scrum tomorrow on #schoolserver 1600UTC / 1200EDT

2013-09-16 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi fellow server-hackers! We will be having our second IRC scrum meeting tomorrow 17th September on 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT at the #schoolserver channel. The meeting will be logged by a supybot instance (which will go away as soon as the meeting is over) Please start filling in your points to

[Server-devel] XSCE IRC Scrum Minutes - September 17

2013-09-19 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi all, Apologies for the delay in sending the minutes, we had our second XSCE IRC Scrum this Tuesday/September-17. Here are the highlights: *=This is the rolling agenda document = * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg/edit *=Key highlights/minutes=*

[Server-devel] Reminder: XSCE IRC scrum tomorrow (24th September), 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT

2013-09-23 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi fellow server-hackers! We will be having our third IRC scrum meeting tomorrow 24th September on 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT at the #schoolserver channel. The meeting will be logged by a supybot instance (which will go away as soon as the meeting is over) Please start filling in your points to discuss

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Information about the IRC bots added to the wiki

2013-09-25 Thread Anish Mangal
I updated a couple of things. First, there's a IRC guidelines section on the XSCE mainpage http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition#IRC_Guidelines or http://tinyurl.com/xsce-irc I also updated the IRC channel header to reflect that update and link it correctly, and cleaned up a few bits.

[Server-devel] Reminder: XSCE IRC scrum tomorrow (1st October), 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT

2013-09-30 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi fellow server-hackers! We will be having our fourth IRC scrum meeting tomorrow *1st October on 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT at the #schoolserver* *channel (irc.freenode.net)*. The meeting will be logged by a supybot instance. Please start filling in your points to discuss in the rolling agenda

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: [ANNOUNCE] XSCE-0.4 released!

2013-10-03 Thread Anish Mangal
Please add your agenda items here. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg/edit On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Tony Anderson tony_ander...@usa.netwrote: My skype username is tony_anderson37. Tony On 10/03/2013 01:12 PM, Jon Nettleton wrote: I

[Server-devel] Posting to a single mailing list only

2013-10-05 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, For a while now, I have been posting to both mailing lists (xsce-devel, server-devel) in an effort to move from xsce-devel-only and have my communication archived and publicly referable/accessible, while addressing as many community members as possible. However, it is creating some confusion

[Server-devel] Reminder: XSCE IRC scrum tomorrow (8th October), 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT on #schoolserver/irc.freenode.net

2013-10-07 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi fellow server-hackers! We will be having our fifth IRC scrum meeting tomorrow 8th October on 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT at the #schoolserver channel (irc.freenode.net). The meeting will be logged by a supybot instance. Please start filling in your points to discuss in the rolling agenda document

[Server-devel] Fwd: XS-CE Setup Issue

2013-10-07 Thread Anish Mangal
, Oct 4, 2013 at 12:09 PM Subject: XS-CE Setup Issue To: Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.com Hey Anish, I am trying to setup a small testing server for XS-CE 0.4, but I'm getting an error after running xs-setup. I am using Fedora 18 XFCE 64-bit within a VM. The error can be seen here: http

[Server-devel] XSCE | Proposing a quick turnaround 0.4.5 release

2013-10-07 Thread Anish Mangal
Since 0.4 was just released, it is a good moment to talk about future development efforts. I spent this weekend thinking about the progress we have made through this release, not just in terms of development effort, but growth as a community. What follows in this email below is a set of ideas and

Re: [Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 78, Issue 8

2013-10-07 Thread Anish Mangal
First, I'm not sure what Anna is describing is push based in a pure technical sense. The client receiving files must either be always online or poll some central server to see if there is anything to be downloaded. To the end user, it's push based, but technically, it's still polling by the client

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE | Proposing a quick turnaround 0.4.5 release

2013-10-07 Thread Anish Mangal
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 9:51 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: Don't number it 0.4.5, instead number it 0.5, and push any plans you had for 0.5 out to 0.6. The sooner you get to 1.0 the more acceptable the version number will become. 0.4, based on the descriptions I see, is already

[Server-devel] XSCE Proposal | Moving to github and notifications

2013-10-08 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, One of the topics brought up in today's meeting was making the code and development process more visible. Can we have a discussion on this list and come to a conclusion on the proposals listed below. Proposal-1 : Shifting from redmine to github * Move the xsce source code from the

Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Proposal | Moving to github and notifications

2013-10-09 Thread Anish Mangal
Thx for the reply! On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Martin Dluhos mar...@gnu.org wrote: On 10/08/2013 03:08 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: Hi, One of the topics brought up in today's meeting was making the code and development process more visible. Can we have a discussion on this list and come

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] ansible

2013-10-10 Thread Anish Mangal
Documented in the githup repo here: https://github.com/activitycentral/dxs/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.rst On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Anna ascho...@gmail.com wrote: Some quick instructions for installing the DXS. I've only tested on a XO 1.75 as the target so far. On your target

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE]

2013-10-12 Thread Anish Mangal
I can also give my personal opinion. Responses inline. On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Tim Moody t...@timmoody.com wrote: Everyone will be shy to respond, but here's my take. First, the motivation is that the benefit of a school server, especially in non or occasionally connected

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE]

2013-10-13 Thread Anish Mangal
serve? 4. Are there any limitations that would prevent the software to run on ARM architectures? 5. Are there any limitations that would prevent the software to run on different OS platforms (Fedora, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu)? Tony On 10/12/2013 02:39 PM, Anish Mangal wrote: The discussion

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] Re: XSCE Proposal | Moving to github and notifications

2013-10-13 Thread Anish Mangal
. ___ From: Anish Mangal Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 2:11 PM To: Martin Dluhos ; xsce-devel Cc: server-devel Subject: [XSCE] Re: [Server-devel] XSCE Proposal | Moving to github and notifications *If* there is consensus on moving to github, should be think about making the switch

[Server-devel] Reminder: XSCE IRC scrum tomorrow (15th October), 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT on #schoolserver/irc.freenode.net

2013-10-14 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi fellow server-hackers! We will be having our sixth IRC scrum meeting tomorrow 15th October on 1600 UTC / 1200 EDT at the #schoolserver channel (irc.freenode.net). The meeting will be logged by a supybot instance. Please start filling in your points to discuss in the rolling agenda document

[Server-devel] [ANNOUNCE] XSCE is now on Github - Fork us!

2013-10-15 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, Following a discussion about moving to github [1], the XSCE project has finally been moved during the XSCE IRC meeting today [2]. AFAIK (pls correct me if I'm wrong), the owners of the Github XSCE organization are Jerry, Tim and George, and the folks who had commit access to the original

[Server-devel] Today, we ansible! ... hopefully.

2013-10-22 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, Day#1 of the XSCE hacksprint involved running through the list of features that has been proposed. We created feature page templates and drafts for most of them here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/feature Please go through the list, and if something attracts your attention,

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE/xsce and activitycetral/dxs repository integration in a branch preserving history

2013-10-23 Thread Anish Mangal
I think this approach makes sense. As I understand it: * We want to be good historians and follow the proper workflow, which also implies that master should ideally never be broken. * While we are switching to ansible, we do the switch *in a branch* called dxs and *not master* * All fixes and

Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE/xsce and activitycetral/dxs repository integration in a branch preserving history

2013-10-23 Thread Anish Mangal
be in favor of just creating a xsce:dxs with all the dxs commits, so we don't lose the history, and then we just merge that to the xsce:master branch and just continue working there. WhatSay? Tim *From:* Anish Mangal an...@activitycentral.com *Sent:* Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:51 PM

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