What is the URL of the community-created G1G1 Q&A database?

2008-09-26 Thread Mel Chua
(Moving to devel at Wad's request, ccing support-gang as they're likely to know the URL that I'm referring to.) Brian (currently at the Rwanda deployment) suggested a knowledgebase for XO troubleshooting - iirc, a knowledgebase was started by a volunteer during the G1G1 last year. It was not a

Signed candidate-765 and gg-765-2 builds available for testing.

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Stone
After checking with Joe this evening and having previously discussed the necessary security signoffs with Mitch, Richard, Scott, Andres, and Deepak, I have decided to publish 8.2-765 as a signed Candidate in the interests of spurring easier and more widespread testing over the weekend. I have also

Weekend report

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Stone
Michael Stone managed and assisted in the creation and signing of the 8.2-765 candidate build. -- In more detail: * I reviewed and approved the changes taking us from 8.2-760 to 8.2-765. Particular thanks are due to cscott, cjb, and marcopg for efforts above and beyond the call of duty

Re: [IAEP] Coloring books on the XO?

2008-09-26 Thread Albert Cahalan
C. Scott Ananian writes: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> Coloring something certainly helps remember it. And changing the >> colors of shapes/objects in a drawing or scene or skin is one of >> the simple pleasures in life. A simple implementation of coloring >> would l

Re: New release8.2 build 764

2008-09-26 Thread Bastien
"C. Scott Ananian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/olpc_install_sugar_activities_usb.php > > Please ensure that your activities and content list matches > [[Activities/G1G1]]. Do you mean the activities listed here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1/8.2 ?

Please unlock Activities/G1G1/8.2

2008-09-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
The lock-down of this page (which causes lock-down of all included pages transitively) was fine until Scott replaced the references to the 8.2 versions of activities with the old G1G1 page. E.g., when the page was locked, it included http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Etoys_(8.2)

gcompris activities regression

2008-09-26 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Hello, I managed to track it down to this change in joyride 2421: -libxml2.i386 0:2.6.32-3.fc9 +libxml2.i386 0:2.7.1-1.fc9 I cannot say without debugging it further if it's gcompris or libxml2 fault. I added Bruno in cc, which might know better. More info and a trace in the ticket: http://dev.

Re: simple datastore replacement, take two

2008-09-26 Thread NoiseEHC
>> The Datastore can then provide two accessor functions: >> get_by_value(key) and get_by_reference(key). get_by_value() returns the >> contents of the file as a bytestring in memory. get_by_reference() >> returns the path to the metadata file, or another path linked (soft or >> hard) to that fi

(Resubmission) Project hosting request: Lambda

2008-09-26 Thread Antoine van Gelder
1. Project name : Lambda 2. Existing website, if any : http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Lambda 3. One-line description : Lambda is a simple Lisp interpreter for Sugar. 4. Longer description : Lambda is a simple Lisp interpreter for Sugar which : aims

Re: #8650 NORM 8.2.1: Can't install MIT certificates

2008-09-26 Thread Henry Edward Hardy
In general, we want to be able to accept all self-signed certs (I'd say by default). And should have an option to accept expired certs as well (as with Harvard a few months ago). --HH. On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Zarro Boogs per Child < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #8650: Can't install MIT

Re: Another pass through some basic Activity test results

2008-09-26 Thread Arjun Sarwal
Hi, 2008/9/26 Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's a set of basic Activity test results for build 8.2-763, hope the ASCI > art doesn't get too mangled by the list server (need to view with a fixed >Measure-20 . . - . x x x . x Doesn't sleep when Activity is in the >

Re: [IAEP] Datastore/Journal + Coloring books on the XO?

2008-09-26 Thread Carol Lerche
Just a comment ... I have in the past been one to criticize "coloring within the lines" ... but I have learned that this activity is beneficial for young children as a way to develop fine motor control, needed in handwriting and other activities. So not something to treat as a negative in the righ

Re: simple datastore replacement, take two

2008-09-26 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > | 2.- all metadata properties are just strings. > > I think this is a good decision (especially since by strings you mean > "byte arrays"). H

Re: Activity resume issues (was Re: twenty issues with Paint activity)

2008-09-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 26, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > Am 26.09.2008 um 06:20 schrieb Mikus Grinbergs: > If from Journal I double-click on a Paint activity icon, I get two icons in the Frame, one of which has a doubled menu ("Paint Activity - Resume - Stop - Resume - St

Activity resume issues (was Re: twenty issues with Paint activity)

2008-09-26 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 26.09.2008 um 06:20 schrieb Mikus Grinbergs: >>> If from Journal I double-click on a Paint activity icon, I get two >>> icons >>> in the Frame, one of which has a doubled menu ("Paint Activity - >>> Resume >>> - Stop - Resume - Stop") that I can't resume or stop. When I >>> tried to >>>

Re: twenty issues with Paint activity

2008-09-26 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
>> If from Journal I double-click on a Paint activity icon, I get two icons >> in the Frame, one of which has a doubled menu ("Paint Activity - Resume >> - Stop - Resume - Stop") that I can't resume or stop. When I tried to >> reproduce I got two icons, the first had the doubled menu, but this tim

Re: New release8.2 build 764

2008-09-26 Thread Walter Bender
Any of these 76X builds signed ? There are a bunch of people here at the Open Minds conference with XOs who'd love to test them, but they don't have developer keys installed. -walter On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:16 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:14 AM,

Re: Another pass through some basic Activity test results

2008-09-26 Thread Morgan Collett
Hi Gary Thanks for this excellent testing! 2008/9/26 Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here's a set of basic Activity test results for build 8.2-763, hope the ASCI > art doesn't get too mangled by the list server (need to view with a fixed > width font). The Activities are in no specific order

New joyride build 2489

2008-09-26 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2489 Changes in build 2489 from build: 2488 Size delta: 0.00M -etoys 3.0.2153-1 +etoys 3.0.2159-1 --- Changes for etoys 3.0.2159-1 from 3.0.2153-1 --- + update translation: tr + use bundle_id instead of service_name + Fix not rele

Re: 764 is imminent

2008-09-26 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:30 AM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yup, we were getting several reports that kids accidentally pressed > keys while at the Home screen (which auto-focuses the search field.).. Did we actually get reports from kids about this? There is a bug which causes key