Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-07 Thread S Page
NoiseEHC wrote: I do not even know where to look for log files to attach to a bug report. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Reporting_bugs points you to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Attaching_Sugar_logs_to_tickets 2. I can reliably (100%) trigger the cannot connect to WPA and the dialog asks for a

What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-02 Thread NoiseEHC
p...@laptop.org wrote: but like david, i think that currently neither olpc nor sugarlabs is going to foster or champion their use: olpc has no resources for s/w development, and as far as i can tell, sugarlabs is targeting other h/w platforms just as strongly as the XO -- and other

What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-02 Thread NoiseEHC
Sorry, I wanted to post it toplevel. p...@laptop.org wrote: but like david, i think that currently neither olpc nor sugarlabs is going to foster or champion their use: olpc has no resources for s/w development, and as far as i can tell, sugarlabs is targeting other h/w platforms just

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-02 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 02.03.2009, at 11:04, NoiseEHC wrote: Currently I am writing a nice activity which teaches kids what to do when alien spaceships attacks Earth and it will take some time to finish. That's great! But make sure the game prepares them adequately:

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/2 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: Witch the recent disbanding of the development team I simply cannot see what will happen to the XO development. I mean that 8.2.1 will be released and 9.1.0 is dropped but what I do not understand is what will happen with all the development for 9.1.0?

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left?

2009-03-02 Thread pgf
noiseehc wrote: Sorry, I wanted to post it toplevel. p...@laptop.org wrote: but like david, i think that currently neither olpc nor sugarlabs is going to foster or champion their use: olpc has no resources for s/w development, and as far as i can tell, sugarlabs is

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left?

2009-03-02 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
What would you do if you ran Ubuntu on your main computer but some of the buttons on your keyboard were not working correctly? You would file a bug with Ubuntu, who would hopefully either fix the problem on their own back, or help you to report the issue to the developers of the related

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left?

2009-03-02 Thread david
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: What would you do if you ran Ubuntu on your main computer but some of the buttons on your keyboard were not working correctly? You would file a bug with Ubuntu, who would hopefully either fix the problem on their own back, or help you to report the

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-02 Thread NoiseEHC
Daniel Drake wrote: It is unlikely that you (as a user, rather than a deployment) reporting bugs to OLPC will result in another software release *direct from OLPC* (such as 8.2.2), because development of 8.2.x is mostly discontinued and will really only be driven by deployments. Have you

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-02 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:39 PM, NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu wrote: Daniel Drake wrote: It is unlikely that you (as a user, rather than a deployment) reporting bugs to OLPC will result in another software release *direct from OLPC* (such as 8.2.2), because development of 8.2.x is mostly

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left?

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/2 p...@laptop.org: assuming we can do that (and i'm confident we can), the next step is to take a set of fedora rpms, mostly generic, some XO-specific, and create a distribution.  what's opaque to me, currently, is:    - who will do this    - how often    - what set of packages will

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-02 Thread NoiseEHC
I don't know what your simple program does, but it sounds like it could be a Sugar bug. You should file a ticket at dev.sugarlabs.org. If it is not related to Sugar, we'll try to pass the report along to the proper place. http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/465 It does sound like NM. Look at

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left?

2009-03-02 Thread NoiseEHC
p...@laptop.org wrote: Cannot comment on the first part, I have no idea how this linux distro development thing goes... this is a much simpler question: there's a lot of work going on in sugarland to help activity writers. since activities are released independently, the distribution

Re: What to expect from developers, are there any left? (was Re: rotate button sucks on the XO)

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/3/2 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu: My main problem is that knowing who is more responsible requires knowing linux more that I am comfortable with (I am a Windows developer). Here are just 3 examples to show my point: 1. Today I noticed that my simple program can crash the whole sugar