Re: maintaining activity web information

2009-02-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:05, S Page i...@skierpage.com wrote: (Please forward to whatever the sugar activity mailing list is.) There's a lot of activity information on wiki pages to maintain, I couldn't find any documentation on how to maintain it all. So I wrote

Keep tabs on Sugar development

2009-02-10 Thread Wade Brainerd
Want to know who has been working on what? How active a particular developer or project is? Want to know right away when a particular bug gets fixed? When a new project gets started? How about a graph of commit activity over time? Add the following feed to your RSS reader:

Re: Keep tabs on Sugar development

2009-02-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Just what I needed! Thanks, Tomeu 2009/2/10 Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com: Want to know who has been working on what? How active a particular developer or project is? Want to know right away when a particular bug gets fixed? When a new project gets started? How about a graph of commit

Re: [Sugar-devel] Minimal steps to start hacking on Browse.xo?

2009-02-10 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:28, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I found the git repo for Browse xo! Hurray! (finding things in github is hard work, or perhaps I managed to find the hardest path

Re: [Sugar-devel] Keep tabs on Sugar development

2009-02-10 Thread Simon Schampijer
2009/2/10 Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com: Want to know who has been working on what? How active a particular developer or project is? Want to know right away when a particular bug gets fixed? When a new project gets started? How about a graph of commit activity over time? Add the

In Sugar land even bugs are sweet...

2009-02-10 Thread Simon Schampijer
So sweet that our tracker [1] got sticky and needs a bit of triage help to get going again. That is why the Sugar Labs BugSquad [2] meets this week for their first Triage session. When: Thursday 12 February, 2009 - 16.00 (UTC Where: irc.freenode.net, #sugar-meeting Who: You do not need any

Re: OLPC upgrades

2009-02-10 Thread Wade Brainerd
2009/2/7 Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com That seems a good idea. The use of SVGs seems unnecessary. Although an awsome functionality, which probably saves a lot of work, would allow to scale the use of Sugar to systems with bigger screens - were it probably will never be in use. I've never

Re: OLPC upgrades

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
2009/2/11 Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com: I have spent the last 10 years optimizing software for a living, and can tell you without a doubt that any system can be optimized without starting from scratch. It's just much harder to understand the performance characteristics of a large, complex,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Minimal steps to start hacking on Browse.xo?

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed that navigation is currently hard. I would love to see a new Gitorious splash page that just lists *all* the projects like GitWeb does, Yes! that'd be a big improvement. Or a search of some kind. As it stands, I had

Re: OLPC upgrades

2009-02-10 Thread david
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote: 2009/2/11 Wade Brainerd wad...@gmail.com: I have spent the last 10 years optimizing software for a living, and can tell you without a doubt that any system can be optimized without starting from scratch. It's just much harder to understand the

Re: OLPC upgrades

2009-02-10 Thread Wade Brainerd
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:44 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote: We can skip the build a replacement step, and head for the goal faster. the entire sugar infrastructure is a 'build a replacement' step. people are questioning if it was the right thing to do

Re: OLPC upgrades

2009-02-10 Thread david
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Wade Brainerd wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 5:44 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Martin Langhoff wrote: We can skip the build a replacement step, and head for the goal faster. the entire sugar infrastructure is a 'build a replacement' step. people are

Re: [IAEP] Keep tabs on Sugar development

2009-02-10 Thread Prakhar Agarwal
Awesome!! Really appreciate the efforts. Way to Go!! -- Prakhar Agarwal Linux User# 474643 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Prakhar Life is the greatest teacher ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel

Re: OLPC upgrades

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Robinson
or just run other distros (like many of us are doing) however, even those of us who run other distros (and see the differences) would like to see the Sugar 'distro' improve. The sugar distro is basically Fedora, with a few modifications for things like the security that OLPC uses. Sugar is

Re: OLPC upgrades

2009-02-10 Thread david
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Peter Robinson wrote: or just run other distros (like many of us are doing) however, even those of us who run other distros (and see the differences) would like to see the Sugar 'distro' improve. The sugar distro is basically Fedora, with a few modifications for things

Re: OLPC upgrades

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Robinson
The sugar distro is basically Fedora, with a few modifications for things like the security that OLPC uses. Sugar is actually the GUI that sits on top of the distro. yes, but those modifications are significant. I know that Sugar is the name of the GUI, but there are still things that don't

Re: OLPC upgrades

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 1:41 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: as I said, it's a ever shrinking list, but last I heard the security changes cascaded to other issues, and there were journal related issues. It shrinks because people pick one, and help us working on it :-) Action speculation. Hop on

Announcing the first 8.2.1 release candidate.

2009-02-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi! This e-mail is to announce the first in a series of signed candidate builds leading up to the release of 8.2.1. We'd love your help testing them before release. You can upgrade to this new build (candidate-800) using the instructions here:

Minutes from olpc-friends' Feb. 03 and 10 Deployment Meetings

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Stone
Smith for help with his long-awaited Multi-Battery Charger. Minutes: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployment_meetings/20090210 Enjoy, and please join us in a few hours 0500 UTC or again next Tuesday at 2000 UTC. As always, please add items to the next meetings' agenda at the bottom of http

Deployment Training 101 course, now in moodle

2009-02-10 Thread Bryan Berry
http://moodle.olenepal.org/course/view.php?id=28 you can try it out by logging in as guest This is the course I am giving to Nepal's deployment vlounteers -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list

Deployment Training 101 course, now in moodle

2009-02-10 Thread Bryan Berry
http://moodle.olenepal.org/course/view.php?id=28 you can try it out by logging in as guest This is the course I am giving to Nepal's deployment vlounteers -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org ___ Devel mailing list

Re: updating activities

2009-02-10 Thread Ties Stuij
2009/2/10 victor victor.lazzar...@nuim.ie: Trying to update activities here, from the sugar control panel. It says it cannot access the network to check for updates, even if I have a an ethernet connection to the XO that is working (and I can ping the outside world). It prolly can't find the

Little bits of atomicity...

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hacking on bits of Browse is taking me down the path of reading various random bits of Sugar. And I wanted to drop a quick note... Modern POSIX systems give us a cheap safe atomic way of dealing with updates to small files: write to a tempfile and move it into place. Opening a critical file in

XFT emacs rocks on the XO...

2009-02-10 Thread Martin Langhoff
Stock F9 emacs isn't very usable on the XO screen, unfortunately. Lack of fonts and high dpi make it rather painful. After struggling a bit to get a comfy hacking/editing environment on my XOs, I ended up installing the precooked Xft-enabled emacs rpms, as per: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Emacs

Re: XFT emacs rocks on the XO...

2009-02-10 Thread Samuel Klein
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: Also, the XO ships with a very limited vim. yum install vim-enhanced has improved my part-time vim usage. can we fix this in the next refresh? how much extra space did it take? vim is useful.

Opportunity for speedup

2009-02-10 Thread Mitch Bradley
I just measured the time taken by the boot animation by the simple technique of renaming /usr/bin/rhgb-client so the initscripts can't find it. With boot animation, OS build 7 (an older 8.2.1 candidate) takes 60 seconds from first dot (indicating OFW transfer to Linux) to Sugar prompt for your