Re: [Sugar-devel] Ideal futures for the "I Know" Sugar activities

2020-02-01 Thread Rahul Bothra
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:43 AM James Cameron wrote: > True, but without some cursorary comparison we wouldn't know if we > dropped a feature or bug fix. Yes, I agree. I was attempting humor in the latter part :-P > Unfortunately, some of these sources don't have a commit history. > So

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ideal futures for the "I Know" Sugar activities

2020-01-28 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 08:09:00PM +0530, Rahul Bothra wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:48 AM James Cameron wrote: > >  I'm also not sure how else the activity sources have diverged. > > As long as we can achieve the same user experience, I'd recommend > that we ignore comparing changes made

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ideal futures for the "I Know" Sugar activities

2020-01-28 Thread Rahul Bothra
On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 11:48 AM James Cameron wrote: > I'm also not sure how else the activity sources have diverged. As long as we can achieve the same user experience, I'd recommend that we ignore comparing changes made in each of the sources. There are better things that a developer's time

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ideal futures for the "I Know" Sugar activities

2020-01-27 Thread James Cameron
Hmm, yes. Srevin Saju pointed out the same concept. The America activity is somewhat like that, in that it covers a continent and offers a choice. I'm also not sure how else the activity sources have diverged. On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:34:35PM +0530, Rahul Bothra wrote: > I'd suggest we

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ideal futures for the "I Know" Sugar activities Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 135, Issue 38

2020-01-27 Thread Srevin Saju
- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 10:37:55 +1100 > From: James Cameron > To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > Subject: [Sugar-devel] Ideal futures for the "I Know" Sugar activities > Message-ID: <20200126233755.ge23...@laptop.org> >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ideal futures for the "I Know" Sugar activities

2020-01-27 Thread Rahul Bothra
I'd suggest we should separate out the data and control logic of the activities, and ship a new generic activity (say "IKnowCountries"). The flow would be, * Users download the activity and launch it, * User sees a list of all countries for which the data is maintained * User clicks on one of

[Sugar-devel] Ideal futures for the "I Know" Sugar activities

2020-01-26 Thread James Cameron
Some recent activity maintenance has been too focused. ;-) Our "I Know" or "Conozco" series of activities, except for I Know My ABCs, are 2D map displays for learning relative positions of geographic and geopolitical features. On GitHub we have; https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowAmerica