Re: [Server-devel] XS-0.6 -

2009-10-14 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: We probably need a procedure to dump-and-recreate the Moodle DB because now it is half-there and it probably won't init correctly

incremental activity update

2009-10-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, At OLE Nepal we have difficulties with updating activities because our main educational activity is so huge. Aayush Poudel implemented an incremental activity update which I have now merged with the standard software updater. When updating activities and content, the updater now only

Re: [Sugar-devel] incremental activity update

2009-10-14 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:43, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, At OLE Nepal we have difficulties with updating activities because our main educational activity is so huge. Aayush Poudel implemented an incremental activity update which I have now merged with the standard software

Re: [Sugar-devel] incremental activity update

2009-10-14 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/14 Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org: Wonder how we could make it easier for other deployments to benefit from these changes. Do you have plans to push the changes to the sugar-update-control repo and spin new F9 rpms? No - my time is too tight and at least for Paraguay and Nepal it's

MANIFEST experiments

2009-10-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Today I ran a quick experiment on OLPC OS v8.2.1, based on the question: what are the activity MANIFEST files used for? I see sugar frequently complaining about MANIFEST inconsistencies in the logs, but I don't recall seeing it act on these inconsistencies in any way. I noticed that it even logs

Re: [Sugar-devel] MANIFEST experiments

2009-10-14 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 14.10.2009, at 13:44, Daniel Drake wrote: Today I ran a quick experiment on OLPC OS v8.2.1, based on the question: what are the activity MANIFEST files used for? I see sugar frequently complaining about MANIFEST inconsistencies in the logs, but I don't recall seeing it act on these

Re: [Sugar-devel] incremental activity update

2009-10-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Wonder how we could make it easier for other deployments to benefit from these changes. For the F9 series (8.2.1) my current plan is to work to polish the imagecreator scripts so that it is easier for deployents to -

Mentor request for PyDebug Activity

2009-10-14 Thread George Hunt
I am excited about developing a tool to help me develop other XO Activities. When I shared my ideas with Adam Holt, he suggested that I seek a mentor, or a few partners to help me clarify my ideas, and increase the usefulness of the end product. I am writing this to request such help. As a

Hosting Request for PyDebug Activity debugger

2009-10-14 Thread George Hunt
1. Project name :PyDebug Python Debugger for XO activities 2. Existing website, if any : 3. One-line description :Provide native stand alone facility for writing and debugging Activities 4. Longer description :This project is to combine programs which currently exist on

Re: [Sugar-devel] MANIFEST experiments

2009-10-14 Thread James Cameron
Confirmed. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 05:29:09PM +0545, Daniel Drake wrote: So, I reflashed 2 XOs, booted for the first time, entered a name. On one, I modified sugar.bundle.ActivityBundle.read_manifest() to be a no-op, then turned it off. On the other, I just turned it off. I reproduced this

Re: XO-1 Build 802 doesn't turn off speaker amplifier

2009-10-14 Thread James Cameron
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:00:29PM +0100, Tiago Marques wrote: As anyone ever measured this? I've just measured it now. Unfortunately my meter lacks accuracy on this range, but in two tests, with or without backlight, without any battery, I saw a 20mA (+/- 10mA) improvement as a result of

Re: XO-1 Build 802 doesn't turn off speaker amplifier

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Fox
james wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:00:29PM +0100, Tiago Marques wrote: As anyone ever measured this? I've just measured it now. Unfortunately my meter lacks accuracy on this range, but in two tests, with or without backlight, without any battery, I saw a 20mA (+/- 10mA)

Re: [Sugar-devel] incremental activity update

2009-10-14 Thread Daniel Drake
2009/10/15 Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com: For the F9 series (8.2.1) my current plan is to work to polish the imagecreator scripts so that it is easier for deployents to  - prepare a custom image (mostly covered)  - base on an existing image (in place, even if the tar isn't

Re: Mentor request for PyDebug Activity

2009-10-14 Thread rihowa...@gmail.com
George, I am curious why start on a new activity? The Develop activity is well along and needs bug fixing and updating. A debugger would be a nice addition to it. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Develop http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/develop rihowa...@gmail.com linux - the best things in

Re: [Server-devel] datastore is corrupt message after aliasing

2009-10-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Hamilton Chua hamilton.c...@gmail.com wrote: We are seeing a problem after aliasing. When you visit the backup tab we get the error message Datastore is corrupt, or has unknown format ... or is empty. Are you using a recent moodle-xs? I was sure I had fixed

Re: [Server-devel] Strange Presence Anomoly?

2009-10-14 Thread Martin Langhoff
Interesting! Would be useful to test ... - checking that all XOs are on gabble throughout the adventure (maybe one of them saw an error and switched to salut at one point?) - checking whether it happens with an 'under a tree' setup -- with no ejabberd m On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:53 AM,