[Sugar-devel] New SoaS Snapshot ready!

2009-10-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, here's the next snapshot on our way to SoaS v2 Blueberry. This one fixes some issues and introduces new features, namely: * the updated FoodForce2, Slideruler and SocialCalc activities * the gtk-recordmydesktop tool - execute it from the terminal * new sample content - Alice's

Re: [Sugar-devel] is csound-python part of the Sugar Platform?

2009-11-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Art Hunkins wrote: Please do include csound-python. I'd like my new activities to work right out of the box. On a side-note, we've already included it in the latest SoaS snapshots, so it'll make it's way into the Blueberry release. --Sebastian Hopefully, doing so will also encourage others

Re: [Sugar-devel] Strawberry ID?

2009-11-12 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
The file /etc/fedora-release might be where you want to look... --Sebastian Art Hunkins wrote: I can't seem to find either the lsb_release command, or a file by that name. Typing lsb_release in the Terminal gives me file not found. Find doesn't locate the file either, nor does a listing of

[Sugar-devel] Adjusting the Sugar on a Stick (Blueberry) Roadmap

2009-11-15 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, after considering input from the various teams involved in Sugar Labs and the Sugar on a Stick creation, we're shifting the SoaS as followed. 2009-11-17 Fedora 12 Final Release in the time between: wiki documentation must be readied! 2009-11-29 Image Gold Master Creation

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fw: Nano and soas03/04/05

2009-11-19 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sorry for the late reply... I'm quite behind my e-mail. :/ Just add --nogpg to your yum call, and it should work for now. We're looking to get this generally to work in Blueberry. --Sebastian Art Hunkins wrote: I'd really appreciate a response about this. On sticks make with snapshots

Re: [Sugar-devel] Non sugar activities on ASLO

2009-11-23 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Jim Simmons wrote: Aleksey, It would be helpful to have a way to distribute things like the gstreamer espeak plugin you wrote. Fedora doesn't currently include it. It would be even better if you could distribute versions that work on the XO running .82, as well as versions for current

Re: [Sugar-devel] Reminder please how to flash XO-1 NAND with soas05xo.iso

2009-11-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sean DALY wrote: I did manage to generate the .img and .crc files with the live-iso-t-xo.sh script, but after successful nand-copy of soas05xo.img the XO-1 does not boot, freezes at avatar with no dots :-( Sorry for the late reply. I was a bit busy with writing docs and fixing bugs over the

[Sugar-devel] SoaS v2 approaching RC state

2009-11-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, with the next SoaS release coming up really soon (final image is supposed to be composed this weekend, release date is Dec 8), there's a new snapshot ready for you. It includes a lot of fixes and smaller adjustments. It's currently only available as a general .iso build, others will

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SoaS v2 approaching RC state

2009-11-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 24.11.2009, at 22:13, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi all, with the next SoaS release coming up really soon (final image is supposed to be composed this weekend, release date is Dec 8), there's a new snapshot ready for you. It includes a lot of fixes and smaller

Re: [Sugar-devel] Reminder please how to flash XO-1 NAND with soas05xo.iso

2009-11-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sean DALY wrote: that's the thing, there are no .img and .crc files for soas05xo that I can find? True, actually (sorry for the confusion). There are currently some issues with the image creation for the XO, which just need to be worked around (no big deal, really not) - we just need to get

Re: [Sugar-devel] Feature_SoaS_customization Draft

2009-11-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Carlo Falciola wrote: Hi, I think that customization support is going to be an key point for Sugar/SOAS deployement efforts and for nanaging relationship with field structures. So I'm trying to start an effort in order to write down in as much as possible detail all the potentially

[Sugar-devel] [Please Read] SoaS v2 RC Issues

2009-12-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, this is a very quick update on the current state of SoaS v2. We discovered on Tuesday that we wouldn't be able to ship content due to legal concerns that was originally intended to be included and discussed how to proceed in the last two days. Specifically, we won't include anything

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Please Read] SoaS v2 RC Issues

2009-12-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Confirmed that Read v78 has a jumpy cursor issue which can be avoided by reverting back to v77. Can't reproduce crash yet (trying to get hold of a F12 based system). I can reproduce it using v77, too. The log is here: pastebin.be/22280 --Sebastian -sdg- On Thu,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] [Please Read] SoaS v2 RC Issues

2009-12-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Confirmed that Read v78 has a jumpy cursor issue which can be avoided by reverting back to v77. Can't reproduce crash yet (trying to get hold of a F12 based system). I can reproduce it using v77, too. The log is here: pastebin.be/22280

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Please Read] SoaS v2 RC Issues

2009-12-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sean DALY wrote: My call is we leave them out and concentrate on the wiki page. (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/ebooks). We can't keep slipping the master as I'm sure you'll agree Sebastian :-) +1 - to both! :) That's really reasonable. Ideally, the default Browse homepage

[Sugar-devel] SoaS with Sugar 0.87.2 coming to a system near you

2009-12-28 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi everybody, by popular request, there's now a Sugar on a Stick snapshot with the latest Sugar development release available. Please note that this snapshot is already part of our way to Sugar on a Stick v3. It's still based on F12 for stability reasons, though (this will change in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] SoaS with Sugar 0.87.2 coming to a system near you

2009-12-28 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi everybody, by popular request, there's now a Sugar on a Stick snapshot with the latest Sugar development release available. Please note that this snapshot is already part of our way to Sugar on a Stick v3. It's still based on F12 for stability reasons, though

[Sugar-devel] Weekly Fedora Sugar Meetings

2009-12-28 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, you've probably heard the rumor, that SoaS v3 will only ship Fedora packages. Now let me tell you this: It's true. What this means is that we can use a lot of help with packaging all kinds of crazy-awesome activities and other stuff for Fedora - which will get a Sugar environment with

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SoaS with Sugar 0.87.2 coming to a system near you

2009-12-28 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Peter Robinson wrote: Hi Sebastian, by popular request, there's now a Sugar on a Stick snapshot with the latest Sugar development release available. Please note that this snapshot is already part of our way to Sugar on a Stick v3. It's still based on F12 for stability reasons, though (this

Re: [Sugar-devel] Weekly Fedora Sugar Meetings

2009-12-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Walter Bender wrote: What channel? #fedora-edu? #sugar-meeting? Oh, right! I'd say let's just go for #fedora-olpc for now... See you there! --Sebastian -walter On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: Hi all, you've probably heard the rumor, that

[Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Meeting Minutes 31/12/2009

2009-12-31 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
This is it. First meeting after some time, quite some folks joined. Thanks to all those who dropped by! Here are the minutes and logs: http://meeting.olpcorps.net/fedora-olpc/fedora-olpc.minutes.20091231_1013.html http://meeting.olpcorps.net/fedora-olpc/fedora-olpc.log.20091231_1013.html Next

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Meeting Minutes 31/12/2009

2010-01-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi Wade, thanks a lot for sharing your concerns that openly! I've dropped a few comments inline... Wade Brainerd wrote: Hi Sebastian, I'm concerned that you guys are planning to require activity authors to package their activities in Fedora, in order to see them shipped in SoaS. Is this

[Sugar-devel] Wrapping the Sugar Packaging Session up

2010-01-06 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, thanks everybody for attending! It was a great with cool questions and discussions. We're currently readying the logs, notes and docs which Mel logged in a GIT repo. So if you're interested in a practical step by step guide, looking at the repository would already be a good start. The

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick Planning Meeting Tomorrow

2010-01-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Please join us in #sugar-meeting tomorrow - directly after the SLOBs meeting (so around 1600 UTC) - for a SoaS meeting. Topic will obviously be the future of SoaS for v3. --Sebastian ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] image-writer-mac, incompatible with earlier Mac OS X versions

2010-01-23 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 30.12.2009, at 00:57, Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 30.12.2009, at 00:22, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:11:46AM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: The changes look okay, though I'd just remove the read-only check, that should make it work on both Mac OS

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity SoaS Licensing Concerns

2010-02-10 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi folks, I've lately taken the task of packaging more activities to get us a reasonably user experience for the next iteration of SoaS. The normal review process requires an application to be properly and clearly licensed. I'd like to encourage activity authors

[Sugar-devel] Heads Up: Sugar 0.87.4 coming to Rawhide

2010-02-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Title says it all, it should be in tomorrows build. --Sebastian ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Heads Up: Sugar 0.87.4 coming to Rawhide

2010-02-11 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
James Cameron wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 08:13:40PM +0100, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Title says it all, it should be in tomorrows build. Briefly, how do I swing across to this on an OLPC XO-1.5 that is installed with an OLPC F11 build? (There are several problems I'm investigating where

[Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Packaging Queue

2010-02-12 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, I'd like to take the chance to hint once more at our tracking bug [1], as well as the activity wiki page [2]. Recently, TamTam has been posted for review, too. I'm a little disappointed with the speed we're progressing with. Here's a list of the currently most important things we need

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity SoaS Licensing Concerns

2010-02-12 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi folks, I've lately taken the task of packaging more activities to get us a reasonably user experience for the next iteration of SoaS. The normal review process requires an application to be properly and clearly licensed. I'd like

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity SoaS Licensing Concerns

2010-02-12 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Tim McNamara wrote: On 13 February 2010 09:15, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com mailto:sebast...@when.com wrote: If nobody complains by the end of this weekend, I'll just upload the images, put a GPLv2+ license in the archive and make a tarball, as this is what they've been

[Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar SoaS Meeting Time

2010-02-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
I've a conflict coming up for the next weeks with our current meeting time and would need to start something like half an hour later. If you're interested in attending, please take a second to put down when you're available here: http://whenisgood.net/fedora-sugar-mtg-1 Make sure to select

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Packaging Queue

2010-02-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Bert Freudenberg wrote: On 12.02.2010, at 12:11, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: Hi all, I'd like to take the chance to hint once more at our tracking bug [1], [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558617 This should also depend on #520294. - Bert - Cool! Wasn't aware

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fedora Sugar Packaging Queue

2010-02-13 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
James Cameron wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:11:02PM +0100, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: In other news, we're being blocked by licensing issues for some activities and the boot screen, as I've posted before. I've recently submitted patches to bugs.sugarlabs.org for two activities because we

Re: [Sugar-devel] Font display revisited

2010-02-23 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Daniel Drake wrote: On 22 February 2010 03:13, Tomeu Vizosoto...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: You may want to ask in the soas ml, but in 0.88 we are going to make it easier to users to change the default font size, so apps shouldn't make any assumptions based on a fixed value for that. But, in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.87.6 Tarballs Due

2010-02-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Art Hunkins wrote: Can we be certain that csound-python is included, please? Art Hunkins This is SoaS related, I'd say (and not for Sugar itself). As stated in a previous e-mail, I've pushed an appropriate commit earlier [1]. If you want to make sure, you can check the current kickstart

Re: [Sugar-devel] Commonly Used SoaS and XO Sugar Distributions

2010-02-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Art Hunkins wrote: It would be most helpful to me to know whether SoaS v3 will be called Cloudberry or something else. This was the original plan, as far as I'm aware. However, the final release name will be determined through consideration of the various involved teams, such as the Marketing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Testing activities on latest daily SoaS builds

2010-02-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Art Hunkins wrote: I am unable to test my activities (Our Music, Our Music MC) on recent daily builds because Browse doesn't work, and other USB drives are not recognized. (The neighborhood view shows nothing except me.) These are my only ready ways of getting activities into the system.

[Sugar-devel] SoaS change in engineering direction: activity questions

2010-03-19 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
SoaS engineering just proposed a major change-in-direction for the upcoming (Mirabelle) release. See http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/soas/2010-March/000906.html and http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2010-March/002727.html for more information - the short version is that instead

[Sugar-devel] What's going on with Sugar on a Stick?

2010-03-26 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, as you may have noticed, there are a couple of changes coming to Sugar on a Stick to keep the whole project sustainable. In the upcoming month, from March 28 (I'll be off starting Sunday night) to May 7, my ability to devote time to the project will cease. I have to prepare for my

[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Improved Sugar on a Stick Proposal

2010-04-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi folks, I have been busy lately and will continue to be for the next couple of weeks. However, summer possibility exploration happens, too. So. Here's a GSoC proposal. Comments appreciated! :) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Summer_of_Code/2010/Improved_Sugar_on_a_Stick Cheers! --Sebastian

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

2010-04-26 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: Yes it has jabber.sugarlabs.org in Control Panel / Network It looks very much like this, which seems to be pretty much a blocker, yup: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585413 Tom Gilliard satellit

[Sugar-devel] Announcing Sugar on a Stick v.3 (Mirabelle)

2010-05-25 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
the people involved for their awesome work on this release! Sebastian Dziallas Sugar on a Stick Project Lead ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Read 86 failed to start in Mirabelle

2010-05-30 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:22 PM, samy boutayeb s.bouta...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I tried to use the Read activity (version 86) in Mirabelle (either running from within Virtualbox on a USB stick) and got the following error: Failed to start. However, the same activity (same version) do launch

[Sugar-devel] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename Colour Suggestions

2010-06-03 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
We'd like to kick off the process for the upcoming Sugar on a Stick v.4 already, while gearing up for the SoaS PR at LinuxTag, too. And so we're looking forward to your ideas and suggestions on the codename and colour selections for the next release iteration. These will be discussed at the next

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [Marketing] Soliciting SoaS v.4 Codename Colour Suggestions

2010-06-05 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Regards Harriet On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: Hi Sean, On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Sean DALY sdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Sebastian, I guess you want to drop the name we had chosen together previously, Cloudberry? If you remember we

[Sugar-devel] Attention Activity Developers: SoaS Activity Inclusion Criteria

2010-06-07 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
releases and look forward to working with you! Please email the SoaS list or our release team with any concerns. --Sebastian Dziallas [1] http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.minutes.20100607_1510.html [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Activity_Criteria [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] GCompris problems on SoaS

2010-06-19 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
I'm moving this from IAEP to sugar-devel. Aleksey, do you have an idea what's going on here? I haven't tried GCompris in SoaS lately, but could this be 0sugar-related? --Sebastian On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Werner Westermann werne...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, regards from Chile. Working

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Read in SoaS with Fedora 13

2010-06-24 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Thomas C Gilliard satel...@bendbroadband.com wrote: I just made a 4 GB USB with persistence from soas-i386-20100623.03.iso In testing: Read 86, it still fails to start log showed unable to find/open evince [...] Read does not work because the way it

[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] [Patch] Sugar Smolt Control Panel Integration

2010-06-27 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
I've been working on an integration of Smolt (https://fedorahosted.org/smolt/) into Sugar as part of my GSoC. The purpose of this is to help us gather information about the hardware Sugar is running on, as well as to help users filing bug reports to simplify the process of providing said

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] [Patch] Sugar Smolt Control Panel Integration

2010-07-01 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Sorry that it took me a bit to reply. Catching up on email backlog once again. I dropped a couple of replies inline. :) On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Sebastian Dziallas's message of Sun Jun 27 21:07:11 +0200 2010: I've

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] [DESIGN] Restart

2010-07-16 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Fri, 16-07-2010 a las 09:37 -0400, Frederick Grose escribió:         Anything else we would like feedback on? Please also consider http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/503. I don't know... if we drop the Restart

[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick Weekly Meeting Logs (2010/07/19)

2010-07-19 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Here are the minutes (follow the link at the bottom for the logs): http://me.etin.gs/sugar-meeting/sugar-meeting.minutes.20100719_1506.html Bernie, what's the state of the VM we had been talking about for Mel and me (I'd really like to have a real bot there). Points raised: * Raffael asked

[Sugar-devel] Call for Testers: LiveUSB Creator on other Distributions

2010-07-20 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Hi all, I'd like us to get a coherent way in terms of user interfaces for creating Sugar on a Stick on as many distributions as possible. I do have a first iteration of such a release using Fedora's LiveUSB Creator ready and need some testers with - preferably different - distributions. There are

Re: [Sugar-devel] Calculate bug, help!

2010-07-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Reinier, On 20 Jul 2010, at 00:45, Reinier Heeres wrote: Hi Gary, I agree that the AstParser class is a bit scary, but I still believe it's a good ingredient for Calculate: it allows us to do symbolic

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Testing request] Browse-webkit

2010-07-22 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Tue, 20-07-2010 a las 03:07 +0100, Lucian Branescu escribió: rgs and myself have ported Browse to pywebkitgtk with all features and we could use some testing. You can get it from here

[Sugar-devel] Moving On.

2010-12-14 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
The Short Version: As many of you might have noticed, my activities within Sugar Labs have been fading lately. I'd like to take the only responsible step and hand my responsibilities off. The Long Version: I didn't expect to see myself writing this email. I'm currently a student at Olin working

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