Re: [sugar] Finale: consider merging a few fun Sugar patches?

2008-09-18 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 * At *very* high level the patch sets looks sane. I would be
 comfortable with them going in if Scott reviews Martin set, and Martin
 reviews Scott set.
 * The patches are large and I don't think it's impossible that they
 would cause regressions. Our release manager should be aware of it and
 keep loving us if it happens.
 * I would help by getting packages in the builds and doing a bit of testing.

 * Both patches contains string additions I guess (hopefully not
 changes?). Someone would have to sort that out with sayamindu and the
 localization team.


String addtions ?? Now ??
-sdg-



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Re: [sugar] Finale: consider merging a few fun Sugar patches?

2008-09-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:23:57PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 * At *very* high level the patch sets looks sane. I would be
 comfortable with them going in if Scott reviews Martin set, and Martin
 reviews Scott set.
 * The patches are large and I don't think it's impossible that they
 would cause regressions. Our release manager should be aware of it and
 keep loving us if it happens.
 * I would help by getting packages in the builds and doing a bit of testing.

 * Both patches contains string additions I guess (hopefully not
 changes?). Someone would have to sort that out with sayamindu and the
 localization team.


String addtions ?? Now ??
-sdg-

Sigh. I knew I was forgetting something important. I guess these can be
first-on-deck for 8.2.1 then. :(

Michael
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Re: [sugar] Finale: consider merging a few fun Sugar patches?

2008-09-18 Thread Martin Dengler
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 04:05:26AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
  On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  * At *very* high level the patch sets looks sane. I would be
  comfortable with them going in if Scott reviews Martin set, and Martin
  reviews Scott set.
[...]
 I guess these can be first-on-deck for 8.2.1

I'll do my review but Scott need not worry about mine since my patches
are already in 0.82.1[1] and 8.2-758[2].

 Michael

Martin

1. 
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=sugar;a=commit;h=434ab0ce729a670a119f033386190eaf6a8827ca

2. 
http://mock.laptop.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=repos;a=commitdiff;h=e0489cd6dec4b910445f489632adb44ba136c1c1



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Re: [sugar] Finale: consider merging a few fun Sugar patches?

2008-09-18 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 String addtions ?? Now ??

Three words: Triangle, Box, and Spiral.

I wonder if a compromise version of the patch might remove all the
words and just use icons for the three different layouts.  The words
don't actually add much (except maybe for Freeform -- but what does
that word mean, actually).
 --scott

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Re: [sugar] Finale: consider merging a few fun Sugar patches?

2008-09-18 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:57 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Martin Dengler
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'll do my review but Scott need not worry about mine since my patches
 are already in 0.82.1[1] and 8.2-758[2].

 Hm, I'm actually a bit disappointed by this, because I'd been hoping
 (based on just the phrase network feedback which Michael used when
 describing your patches to me) that this was a quick fix for the
 connected networks indistinguishable from unconnected network issue
 in the networks view.  Feedback from testers has consistently
 indicated that this is an issue for them (especially when they are
 transitioning from an old build).  I'd hoped that we could come up
 with *some* reasonable stop gap, whether it's a halo, or a square in
 the center of the circle, or *something*.  Boo.

I agree. I think Eben liked the different icon idea. Eben, can you
spec this? (keep it simple)

Marco
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Re: [sugar] Finale: consider merging a few fun Sugar patches?

2008-09-18 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:43 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:54 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 wrote:
 String addtions ?? Now ??

 Three words: Triangle, Box, and Spiral.

 I wonder if a compromise version of the patch might remove all the
 words and just use icons for the three different layouts.  The words
 don't actually add much (except maybe for Freeform -- but what does
 that word mean, actually).

 OK, attached is a screenshot of a word-less version; further
 discussion at http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7685
  --scott


Looks good :-).
Probably Eben should make the call now .
Cheers,
Sayamindu



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[sugar] Finale: consider merging a few fun Sugar patches?

2008-09-17 Thread Michael Stone
Folks,

We've reached the last call for changes before final test and, in the
hopes of ending our development cycle on a playful note, I'd like to ask
the sugar team to consider whether they'd be comfortable reviewing and
merging a couple of the outstanding UI patches like Scott's alternate
layouts patches [1] and Martin's network feedback patches [2].

Sugar team: you can nix the idea if it seems too risky, if the patches
aren't baked, or if it would take too much time to accomplish, but if
you're willing to step up and handle the review, merge, and testing,
then I think it would a joyous finale to a remarkable development cycle.

Regards,

Michael

[1]: 
http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/mdengler/sugar;a=shortlog;h=network-feedback-2866
[2]: http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/cscott/sugar

P.S. - (The deadline for this action, should you choose to accept it,
would be Friday afternoon.)

P.P.S. - Eben mentioned to me that he was concerned that people might
falsely interpret some of the new 8.2.0 Sugar APIs as stable when they
are, in fact, almost certain to change in the next major release. I
would find it commendable if some Sugar developer took this last
opportunity to add some bold comments to the relevant APIs warning
developers who examine them about this probable future breakage.
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Re: [sugar] Finale: consider merging a few fun Sugar patches?

2008-09-17 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 * At *very* high level the patch sets looks sane. I would be
 comfortable with them going in if Scott reviews Martin set, and Martin
 reviews Scott set.
 * The patches are large and I don't think it's impossible that they
 would cause regressions. Our release manager should be aware of it and
 keep loving us if it happens.
 * I would help by getting packages in the builds and doing a bit of testing.

* Both patches contains string additions I guess (hopefully not
changes?). Someone would have to sort that out with sayamindu and the
localization team.

Marco
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Re: [sugar] Finale: consider merging a few fun Sugar patches?

2008-09-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:30:30AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
* At *very* high level the patch sets looks sane. I would be
comfortable with them going in if Scott reviews Martin set, and Martin
reviews Scott set.

Sounds good. Hopefully there are a few other sugar volunteers who could
chip in to help look for regressions?

* The patches are large and I don't think it's impossible that they
would cause regressions. Our release manager should be aware of it and
keep loving us if it happens.

I'm the one who'se suggesting it, so I'd take the blame. 

* I would help by getting packages in the builds and doing a bit of testing.

This can happen immediately, yes?

 P.P.S. - Eben mentioned to me that he was concerned that people might
 falsely interpret some of the new 8.2.0 Sugar APIs as stable when they
 are, in fact, almost certain to change in the next major release. I
 would find it commendable if some Sugar developer took this last
 opportunity to add some bold comments to the relevant APIs warning
 developers who examine them about this probable future breakage.

Eben, what APIs are you thinking about? In general the whole Sugar API
will need to be reviewed. I have yet to figure out when, how and what
kind of backward compatibility we offer. It's something I'll be
working on in the next few weeks.

Eben specifically mentioned the APIs used by Frame devices, layouts, and
Control Panel entries.

Michael

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