Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Control Panel: making about my computer section hardware independent, OLPC #11232
On 10/17/2011 08:38 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
Excerpts from Simon Schampijer's message of 2011-10-17 11:07:13 +0200:
- powerpc is not a popular Sugar platform to make an enormous effort for
supporting it
I wouldn't consider anything we discussed an enormous effort. With
that attitude PowerPC would never be a viable platform. Catch-22.
I knew people would jump on that. The original patch would not have had
any impact on Sugar running on powerpc, just that the version displayed
in the CP would not have a meaning. I could have lived with that. Still,
I am waiting for reports of people running Sugar on powerpc...And I
don't think *this* is a blocker for them.
- displaying all of the string on both cases (OLPC/powerpc) will likely
confuse people used to the old humanized string that is displayed at current
- the string does always start with CL: CL1 for XO-1, CL1B for XO-1.5,
CL2 for XO-1.75, to differentiate we can do the following:
if: string.startswith('CL') string[6:13]
else: display all of the string
Sounds good enough to me. We don't even need the length check as
foo[6:13] will simply give an empty string if foo is too short. Might be
good to add a comment to that effect, though.
I will send a new full patch.
Regards,
Simon
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[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Control Panel: making about my computer section hardware independent, OLPC #11232
'/ofw' is not used anymore on the XO, '/proc/device-tree' is used now
instead. Instead of just adjusting for that change we took the
chance to make the section hardware independent.
As the firmware version we display the bios version if available on non XO
hardware. On the XO we display a human readable extraction of what is
found in .../openprom/model. On other architectures (e.g. powerpc) we
display all of the content of that file.
As ethtool has become a depedency of Sugar we can now
display the wireless firmware as well on any hardware.
The serial number is often only readable by root on non-XO
hardware, that is why we do not read it. If the serial number
can not be found on an XO we display the entry as 'Not available'.
The patch has been tested on XO 1, 1.5, 1.75 and on a Thinkpad T61.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schampijer si...@laptop.org
---
extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/model.py | 24 +++---
extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/view.py | 65 +--
2 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/model.py
b/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/model.py
index a02eee6..431c9c0 100644
--- a/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/model.py
+++ b/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/model.py
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ _NM_DEVICE_TYPE_WIFI = 2
_OFW_TREE = '/ofw'
_PROC_TREE = '/proc/device-tree'
+_DMI_DIRECTORY = '/sys/class/dmi/id'
_SN = 'serial-number'
_MODEL = 'openprom/model'
@@ -96,18 +97,29 @@ def print_build_number():
print get_build_number()
+def _parse_firmware_number(firmware_no):
+if firmware_no is None:
+firmware_no = _not_available
+else:
+# try to extract Open Firmware version from OLPC style version
+# string, e.g. CL2 Q4B11 Q4B
+if firmware_no.startswith('CL'):
+firmware_no = firmware_no[6:13]
+return firmware_no
+
+
def get_firmware_number():
firmware_no = None
if os.path.exists(os.path.join(_OFW_TREE, _MODEL)):
firmware_no = _read_file(os.path.join(_OFW_TREE, _MODEL))
+firmware_no = _parse_firmware_number(firmware_no)
elif os.path.exists(os.path.join(_PROC_TREE, _MODEL)):
firmware_no = _read_file(os.path.join(_PROC_TREE, _MODEL))
-if firmware_no is None:
-firmware_no = _not_available
-else:
-firmware_no = re.split(' +', firmware_no)
-if len(firmware_no) == 3:
-firmware_no = firmware_no[1]
+firmware_no = _parse_firmware_number(firmware_no)
+elif os.path.exists(os.path.join(_DMI_DIRECTORY, 'bios_version')):
+firmware_no = _read_file(os.path.join(_DMI_DIRECTORY, 'bios_version'))
+if firmware_no is None:
+firmware_no = _not_available
return firmware_no
diff --git a/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/view.py
b/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/view.py
index e5f2f32..257e165 100644
--- a/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/view.py
+++ b/extensions/cpsection/aboutcomputer/view.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
-import os
from gettext import gettext as _
import gtk
@@ -47,8 +46,7 @@ class AboutComputer(SectionView):
scrollwindow.add_with_viewport(self._vbox)
self._vbox.show()
-if os.path.exists('/ofw'):
-self._setup_identity()
+self._setup_identity()
self._setup_software()
self._setup_copyright()
@@ -127,37 +125,36 @@ class AboutComputer(SectionView):
box_software.pack_start(box_sugar, expand=False)
box_sugar.show()
-if os.path.exists('/ofw'):
-box_firmware = gtk.HBox(spacing=style.DEFAULT_SPACING)
-label_firmware = gtk.Label(_('Firmware:'))
-label_firmware.set_alignment(1, 0)
-label_firmware.modify_fg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL,
- style.COLOR_SELECTION_GREY.get_gdk_color())
-box_firmware.pack_start(label_firmware, expand=False)
-self._group.add_widget(label_firmware)
-label_firmware.show()
-label_firmware_no = gtk.Label(self._model.get_firmware_number())
-label_firmware_no.set_alignment(0, 0)
-box_firmware.pack_start(label_firmware_no, expand=False)
-label_firmware_no.show()
-box_software.pack_start(box_firmware, expand=False)
-box_firmware.show()
-
-box_wireless_fw = gtk.HBox(spacing=style.DEFAULT_SPACING)
-label_wireless_fw = gtk.Label(_('Wireless Firmware:'))
-label_wireless_fw.set_alignment(1, 0)
-label_wireless_fw.modify_fg(gtk.STATE_NORMAL,
- style.COLOR_SELECTION_GREY.get_gdk_color())
-box_wireless_fw.pack_start(label_wireless_fw, expand=False)
-self._group.add_widget(label_wireless_fw)
-
Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Control Panel: making about my computer section hardware independent, OLPC #11232
Reviewed-by: James Cameron qu...@laptop.org -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Bring back the Sugar cursor onto the intro screen, OLPC #10712
This issue has a long history outlined in detail
in [1]. We once moved the xsetroot around to compensate
for SL #1476 but Daniel fixed this in Metacity in
OLPC #10693.
The proposed patch does work for me in Jhbuild and
the latest 0.94 based OLPC build. Both the cursor in
the intro screen and under Sugar are the correct
ones.
[1] http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10712#comment:3
Signed-off-by: Simon Schampijer si...@laptop.org
---
bin/sugar-session |9 +
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bin/sugar-session b/bin/sugar-session
index 8ea195f..d4ccd74 100755
--- a/bin/sugar-session
+++ b/bin/sugar-session
@@ -173,10 +173,6 @@ def setup_keyboard_cb():
def setup_window_manager():
logging.debug('STARTUP: window_manager')
-# have to reset cursor(metacity sets it on startup)
-if subprocess.call('echo $DISPLAY; xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr',
shell=True):
-logging.warning('Can not reset cursor')
-
if subprocess.call('metacity-message disable-keybindings',
shell=True):
logging.warning('Can not disable metacity keybindings')
@@ -204,6 +200,10 @@ def set_fonts():
settings = gtk.settings_get_default()
settings.set_property(gtk-font-name, %s %f % (face, size))
+def set_cursor():
+if subprocess.call('echo $DISPLAY; xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr',
shell=True):
+logging.warning('Can not set cursor')
+
def main():
try:
from sugar import env
@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ def main():
os.environ['TZ'] = timezone
set_fonts()
+set_cursor()
# this must be added early, so that it executes and unfreezes the screen
# even when we initially get blocked on the intro screen
--
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [Announce] Design Team meeting
Could you look at the toolbars review Manuel and me did in Junin? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Design_Team/Toolbar_Catalog#Gonzalo_and_Manuel.27s_review_at_2011-09-26 Gonzalo On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi all, Just a quick email that the Design Team meeting slipped today, the next meeting is now scheduled for the 31st October @ 15:00 UTC. I took the opportunity to tidy up the Design Meeting page (using a similar format as per the Activity meeting page): http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Meetings The upcoming meeting agenda items are listed, though I'm hoping to start some of them in ML threads and try to clear through some offline, before the next real-time meeting. Regards, --Gary ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Control Panel: making about my computer section hardware independent, OLPC #11232
On 10/18/2011 09:48 AM, James Cameron wrote: Reviewed-by: James Cameronqu...@laptop.org Acked as well by Sascha on irc, pushed to master and the 0.94 branch. http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar/mainline/commit/64aae3b42c259af85db4051aa54c74a1b303f21b Regards, Simon ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] [Announce] Design Team meeting
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: Could you look at the toolbars review Manuel and me did in Junin? http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Talk:Design_Team/Toolbar_Catalog#Gonzalo_and_Manuel.27s_review_at_2011-09-26 Gonzalo On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Gary Martin garycmar...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi all, Just a quick email that the Design Team meeting slipped today, the next meeting is now scheduled for the 31st October @ 15:00 UTC. I took the opportunity to tidy up the Design Meeting page (using a similar format as per the Activity meeting page): http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Meetings The upcoming meeting agenda items are listed, though I'm hoping to start some of them in ML threads and try to clear through some offline, before the next real-time meeting. Regards, --Gary ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel I'd also like to discuss some Journal topics, e.g., write to Journal anytime; activities temporarily mounting directories in the volumes toolbar, etc. regards. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.orgwrote: On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 23:52 +, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all! The following services will be inaccessible for planned maintenance. For one hour starting from 2011-10-18 03:00 UTC. cas.sugarlabs.org cgit.sugarlabs.org git.sugarlabs.org chat.sugarlabs.org obs.sugarlabs.org jabber.sugarlabs.org meeting.sugarlabs.org sweets.sugarlabs.org Sorry for inconveniences. The maintenance work has been completed, all services should be back online. Cheers, thanks guys. -walter -- Bernie Innocenti Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Bring back the Sugar cursor onto the intro screen, OLPC #10712
This issue has a long history outlined in detail
in [1]. As stated in the ticket Metacity sets
the cursor after it's startup, so we need to make
sure Metacity is already running before we set the
cursor. This patch does try to set the cursor before
the intro screen is displayed. In my testing this
worked fine in Jhbuild and the latest 0.94 based
OLPC build.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schampijer si...@laptop.org
---
bin/sugar-session | 12 ++--
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bin/sugar-session b/bin/sugar-session
index 8ea195f..ec9812a 100755
--- a/bin/sugar-session
+++ b/bin/sugar-session
@@ -182,8 +182,6 @@ def setup_window_manager():
logging.warning('Can not disable metacity keybindings')
def bootstrap():
-setup_window_manager()
-
from jarabe.view import launcher
launcher.setup()
@@ -245,6 +243,10 @@ def main():
# even when we initially get blocked on the intro screen
gobject.idle_add(unfreeze_dcon_cb)
+screen = wnck.screen_get_default()
+screen.connect('window-manager-changed', __window_manager_changed_cb)
+_check_for_window_manager(screen)
+
intro.check_profile()
start_ui_service()
@@ -261,9 +263,7 @@ def main():
home_window = homewindow.get_instance()
home_window.show()
-screen = wnck.screen_get_default()
-screen.connect('window-manager-changed', __window_manager_changed_cb)
-_check_for_window_manager(screen)
+bootstrap()
try:
gtk.main()
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ def _check_for_window_manager(screen):
wm_name = screen.get_window_manager_name()
if wm_name is not None:
screen.disconnect_by_func(__window_manager_changed_cb)
-bootstrap()
+setup_window_manager()
main()
--
1.7.4.4
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[Sugar-devel] [PATCH v3 sugar] Journal: don't fail to load if an activity icon is broken (fixes SL#3200)
If the activity-provided icon could not be loaded, the Journal previously
died on start-up, rendering Sugar effectively unusable. Now we fall back to
the standard icon (in the What filter combo box).
SL#3203 has been filed to remind us to audit the code for similar breakages.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe si...@activitycentral.com
---
v2-v3: Improve warning to mention that we fall back to a default icon.
Created TODO ticket SL#3203, mention it in the description.
v1-v2: Created ticket with test case, mention it in the summary.
No code changes.
src/jarabe/journal/journaltoolbox.py | 30 ++
1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/jarabe/journal/journaltoolbox.py
b/src/jarabe/journal/journaltoolbox.py
index cdf6a77..f22abc5 100644
--- a/src/jarabe/journal/journaltoolbox.py
+++ b/src/jarabe/journal/journaltoolbox.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import time
import gobject
import gio
+import glib
import gtk
from sugar.graphics.palette import Palette
@@ -319,19 +320,32 @@ class SearchToolbar(gtk.Toolbar):
for service_name in model.get_unique_values('activity'):
activity_info = registry.get_bundle(service_name)
-if not activity_info is None:
-if os.path.exists(activity_info.get_icon()):
+if activity_info is None:
+continue
+
+if service_name == current_value:
+combo_model = self._what_search_combo.get_model()
+current_value_index = len(combo_model)
+
+# try activity-provided icon
+if os.path.exists(activity_info.get_icon()):
+try:
self._what_search_combo.append_item(service_name,
activity_info.get_name(),
file_name=activity_info.get_icon())
+except glib.GError, exception:
+logging.warning('Falling back to default icon because'
+' %r (%r) has an invalid icon: %s',
+activity_info.get_name(),
+str(service_name), exception)
else:
-self._what_search_combo.append_item(service_name,
-activity_info.get_name(),
-icon_name='application-octet-stream')
+continue
+
+# fall back to generic icon
+self._what_search_combo.append_item(service_name,
+activity_info.get_name(),
+icon_name='application-octet-stream')
-if service_name == current_value:
-current_value_index = \
-len(self._what_search_combo.get_model()) - 1
finally:
self._what_search_combo.handler_unblock(
self._what_combo_changed_sid)
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[Sugar-devel] [PATCH v4 sugar] Journal: don't fail to load if an activity icon is broken (fixes SL#3200)
If the activity-provided icon could not be loaded, the Journal previously
died on start-up, rendering Sugar effectively unusable. Now we fall back to
the standard icon (in the What filter combo box).
SL#3203 has been filed to remind us to audit the code for similar breakages.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe si...@activitycentral.com
---
v3-v4: Improved warning wording some more.
v2-v3: Improve warning to mention that we fall back to a default icon.
Created TODO ticket SL#3203, mention it in the description.
v1-v2: Created ticket with test case, mention it in the summary.
No code changes.
src/jarabe/journal/journaltoolbox.py | 31 +++
1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/jarabe/journal/journaltoolbox.py
b/src/jarabe/journal/journaltoolbox.py
index cdf6a77..2aa4153 100644
--- a/src/jarabe/journal/journaltoolbox.py
+++ b/src/jarabe/journal/journaltoolbox.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import time
import gobject
import gio
+import glib
import gtk
from sugar.graphics.palette import Palette
@@ -319,19 +320,33 @@ class SearchToolbar(gtk.Toolbar):
for service_name in model.get_unique_values('activity'):
activity_info = registry.get_bundle(service_name)
-if not activity_info is None:
-if os.path.exists(activity_info.get_icon()):
+if activity_info is None:
+continue
+
+if service_name == current_value:
+combo_model = self._what_search_combo.get_model()
+current_value_index = len(combo_model)
+
+# try activity-provided icon
+if os.path.exists(activity_info.get_icon()):
+try:
self._what_search_combo.append_item(service_name,
activity_info.get_name(),
file_name=activity_info.get_icon())
+except glib.GError, exception:
+logging.warning('Falling back to default icon for'
+' what filter because %r (%r) has an'
+' invalid icon: %s',
+activity_info.get_name(),
+str(service_name), exception)
else:
-self._what_search_combo.append_item(service_name,
-activity_info.get_name(),
-icon_name='application-octet-stream')
+continue
+
+# fall back to generic icon
+self._what_search_combo.append_item(service_name,
+activity_info.get_name(),
+icon_name='application-octet-stream')
-if service_name == current_value:
-current_value_index = \
-len(self._what_search_combo.get_model()) - 1
finally:
self._what_search_combo.handler_unblock(
self._what_combo_changed_sid)
--
1.7.6.3
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Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Control Panel: making about my computer section hardware independent, OLPC #11232
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.dewrote:
On 10/17/2011 08:38 PM, Sascha Silbe wrote:
Excerpts from Simon Schampijer's message of 2011-10-17 11:07:13 +0200:
- powerpc is not a popular Sugar platform to make an enormous effort for
supporting it
I wouldn't consider anything we discussed an enormous effort. With
that attitude PowerPC would never be a viable platform. Catch-22.
I knew people would jump on that. The original patch would not have had any
impact on Sugar running on powerpc, just that the version displayed in the
CP would not have a meaning. I could have lived with that. Still, I am
waiting for reports of people running Sugar on powerpc...
Just for reference,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu/PPC
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Fedora#PowerPC_Fedora_16
And I don't think *this* is a blocker for them.
- displaying all of the string on both cases (OLPC/powerpc) will likely
confuse people used to the old humanized string that is displayed at
current
- the string does always start with CL: CL1 for XO-1, CL1B for XO-1.5,
CL2 for XO-1.75, to differentiate we can do the following:
if: string.startswith('CL') string[6:13]
else: display all of the string
Sounds good enough to me. We don't even need the length check as
foo[6:13] will simply give an empty string if foo is too short. Might be
good to add a comment to that effect, though.
I will send a new full patch.
Regards,
Simon
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[Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2011-10-18
== Sugar Digest == 1. Daniel Drake has announced the second release candidate of the new OLPC software release [0], which incorporates the latest Sugar bits. You can download 'signed' images for testing from: [1-3]. The final release is scheduled for 1 November. 2. OLPC OZ runs a discussion website on yammer.com for teachers working with XOs in Australia. It is a nice source of feedback about Sugar and 1-to-1 laptop deployments in general. Recently, there was a posting that referenced an OLPC News article about a lemon-battery project [4] by Sameer Verma. There was also a tip of the hat to Guzman Trindad, a teacher in Uruguay, who built a pulse meter [5]. I am not sure how OLPC News missed all of the other great work that Guzman has been doing [6] with Turtle Art and sensors [7] and also the work of Tony Forster [8], who blogs [9] regularly about various ways to engage children with simple sensor. His most recent posting is about using the accelerometer on the XO 1.75 as a seismograph. Check it out. 3. While Guzman and Tony have been using the built-in sensors and simple sensors plugged into the microphone port of the XO laptop, the Butia team in Uruguay has been augmenting the XO with an Arduino board. The latest video of their work is on YouTube [10]. Be sure to watch past the 'Schwarzenegger' robot to see the XO robot programmed in Turtle Art. 4. A few weeks ago, Team Sugarlabs participated in the Boston Hub on Wheels bicycle tour (See Team Sugarlabs [11]). Dogi road with an XO attached to his handlebars, but he wasn't running the Turtle Art odometer program. 5. We've passed six-million downloads on ASLO [12]. === In the community === 6. The SF Summit [13] is this coming weekend, 21-23 October. 7. The Prague Sugar Camp (Gtk3 Hackfest 2011 [14]) is next weekend, 28-30 October. 8. Reminder: As a community member, it is important that your voice be heard. One mechanism is for you to participate in our upcoming election: We will be holding an election for three Sugar Labs oversight board (SLOB) positions at the end of next month. If you are not already a ''member'' [15] of Sugar Labs, please send your name and an explanation of your contribution to Sugar Labs in an email to '''members at sugarlabs dot org'''. If you are a member, please consider being a candidate [16] for one of the SLOB positions. === Tech Talk === 9. Rob Savoye has managed to build Gnash for ARM. He has made RPMs for the XO 1.75 machine. To install his RPMs, add this .repo file to your XO: [gnash-snapshot] name=Gnash Snapshot for Fedora $releasever baseurl=http://getgnash.org/yum/fedora/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgkey=http://getgnash.org/gnashdev.key === Sugar Labs === Gary Martin has generated a SOM [17] from the past few weeks of discussion on the IAEP mailing list. Visit our planet [18] for more updates about Sugar and Sugar deployments. -walter [0] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.3.0 11.3.0 [1] http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/881/ [2] http://download.laptop.org/xo-1.5/os/candidate/881/ [3] http://download.laptop.org/xo-1.75/os/candidate/881/ [4] http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/measuring_a_lemon_battery_with_measure.html [5] http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/peripherals/construir_un_pulsografo_con_xo.html [6] http://anisterra.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/fisica-con-xo/ [7] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Uso_de_TortugaArte_Sensores [8] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/TurtleArt/Using_Turtle_Art_Sensors [9] http://tonyforster.blogspot.com/ [10] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcpzVnuFP0Mfeature=channel_video_title [11] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:TeamSugarlabs.jpg [12] http://activities.sugarlabs.org [13] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SanFranciscoBayArea/OLPCSF_Community_Summit_2011 [14] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Events/Gtk3_Hackfest_2011 [15] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Members/List [16] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2011-2012-candidates#Candidates [17] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:2011-Oct-8-14-som.jpg October 8th-14th (38 emails) [18] http://planet.sugarlabs.org -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2011-10-18
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:35 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: == Sugar Digest == 1. Daniel Drake has announced the second release candidate of the new OLPC software release [0], which incorporates the latest Sugar bits. You can download 'signed' images for testing from: [1-3]. The final release is scheduled for 1 November. 2. OLPC OZ runs a discussion website on yammer.com for teachers working with XOs in Australia. It is a nice source of feedback about Sugar and 1-to-1 laptop deployments in general. Recently, there was a posting that referenced an OLPC News article about a lemon-battery project [4] by Sameer Verma. There was also a tip of the hat to Guzman Trindad, a teacher in Uruguay, who built a pulse meter [5]. I am not sure how OLPC News missed all of the other great work that Guzman has been doing [6] with Turtle Art and sensors [7] and also the work of Tony Forster [8], who blogs [9] regularly about various ways to engage children with simple sensor. His most recent posting is about using the accelerometer on the XO 1.75 as a seismograph. Check it out. 3. While Guzman and Tony have been using the built-in sensors and simple sensors plugged into the microphone port of the XO laptop, the Butia team in Uruguay has been augmenting the XO with an Arduino board. The latest video of their work is on YouTube [10]. Be sure to watch past the 'Schwarzenegger' robot to see the XO robot programmed in Turtle Art. 4. A few weeks ago, Team Sugarlabs participated in the Boston Hub on Wheels bicycle tour (See Team Sugarlabs [11]). Dogi road with an XO attached to his handlebars, but he wasn't running the Turtle Art odometer program. 5. We've passed six-million downloads on ASLO [12]. === In the community === 6. The SF Summit [13] is this coming weekend, 21-23 October. 7. The Prague Sugar Camp (Gtk3 Hackfest 2011 [14]) is next weekend, 28-30 October. 8. Reminder: As a community member, it is important that your voice be heard. One mechanism is for you to participate in our upcoming election: We will be holding an election for three Sugar Labs oversight board (SLOB) positions at the end of next month. If you are not already a ''member'' [15] of Sugar Labs, please send your name and an explanation of your contribution to Sugar Labs in an email to '''members at sugarlabs dot org'''. If you are a member, please consider being a candidate [16] for one of the SLOB positions. === Tech Talk === 9. Rob Savoye has managed to build Gnash for ARM. He has made RPMs for the XO 1.75 machine. To install his RPMs, add this .repo file to your XO: We do actually already have gnash on ARM, it ships with the signed release above :-) Peter ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sugar Labs instance of Open Build System
Hi all! During the work on Sweets[1], openSUSE project, Open Build System[2] was choosen as build farm and hosting server for software managed by Sweets. This is a [http://git.sugarlabs.org/0sugar/build-service patched] Sugar Labs instance of OBS that is intended to be a: * Hosting sources and making binaries, if there is need, for [[Platform_Team/Sweets|Sweets]]. * Convenient instrument to create 3rd party repositories with native packages for all [[#Supported_platforms|supported]] GNU/Linux distributions. For detailed information, read the original Open Build System [http://openbuildservice.org/documentation.html documentation]. For more details about Sugar Labs instance, see http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Open_Build_System It is ready to be used via Sweets[3] as well as for creating 3rd party repositories with native packages[4]. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Sweets [2] http://openbuildservice.org/ [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Packaging#Releasing [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Open_Build_System#Usage -- Aleksey ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
[Sugar-devel] Single sign-on for Sugar Labs resources
Hi all! This case was already popped up from community point of view by Pablo Flores in Tools for the community threads. So, this is a try from Infrastructure Team side. This is about Single sing-on feature for all Sugar Labs resources, such as: * http://wiki.sugarlabs.org * http://git.sugarlabs.org * http://bugs.sugarlabs.org * http://activities.sugarlabs.org * http://translate.sugarlabs.org * https://packages.sugarlabs.org * http://patchwork.sugarlabs.org Basing on Infrastructure Team discussion in systems@ mailing list (it is open, but for some time in the past it was used for discussing secure things like passwords and its history is not public), there is a wiki page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team/Central_Login and a motion: * Centralized database of all users; * Support Single sign-on on as many as possible Sugar Labs sites; * Having users friendly (not only for geeks) Account management application; * Use OpenID, if particular site support it, as a spare authentication method (but OpenID does not conform to Single sign-on); * Push this new infra to production usage; * Look for more authentication methods, like certificate based one from Sugar Shell, that might be useful in addition to the existing system. This is an invitation to broad discussion and pointing out possible down sides of this decision (in addition to [1]). This is also a call for doers to implement [2], we need it in any case. Or, pointing to the existing implementation that might be reused. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team/Central_Login#Costs_.26_Risks [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team/Central_Login#Account_management_application -- Aleksey ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Single sign-on for Sugar Labs resources
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 01:10:22AM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: This is an invitation to broad discussion and pointing out possible down sides of this decision (in addition to [1]). Costs and risks not mentioned in [1] might include: * annoying everybody with extra effort, thus creating a temporary barrier to contributions, * a single point of failure, when it fails, none of the resources can be used, * complexity of solution may lead to longer time before service is restored, * reduced number of engineers with sufficient understanding to be able to fix the service when it breaks, ... and that these risks were not identified previously suggests to me that not enough consensus has been reached, and that the decision to proceed is hasty. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
