Re: [sugar] Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-27 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hi all, On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Chris Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We announced the Joyride builds as having been frozen for new features > several months ago, as we solidified the Update.1 build. Now that it's > doing fine in its own stream, we're reopening the Joyride

Re: [sugar] Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-26 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Chris wrote > * Continue to have (all) activities present in Joyride builds. I was asked to describe how I see Activity precedence affecting me. I dual-boot my G1G1 - one build is "the public will see this" (e.g., Update.1) and the other build is "development" (e.g., Joyride). I customize the

Re: [sugar] Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Mikus, > But Activities in /usr/share/activities seem to take precedence > over same-name Activities in /home/olpc/Activities. My understanding is that exactly the opposite is true, but I might be wrong -- /home/olpc/Activities should be taking precedence. Thanks, - Chris. -- Chris Ba

Re: [sugar] Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-25 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Chris wrote > * Continue to have (all) activities present in Joyride builds. I don't know how many others are like me, but for me this creates awkwardness (I dual-boot my G1G1 between a "public will see this" build (e.g., Update.1) and a "development" build (e.g., Joyride). My problem is that I

Re: [sugar] Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Stone
The initial round of faster work has been pushed; look for joyride builds containing rainbow-0.7.11 or later. As always, patches are welcome. Thanks to Tomeu for this one. (Incidentally, this rainbow release also supports setting rlimits on activities via a "permissions.info" file. I'll try to wri

Re: [sugar] Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > We'd like to invite a discussion about process changes to ensure > that our Joyride builds continue to be stable and usable. Ideas > welcome! And here's my own entry, which limits itself to what we should do in the short-term, before process changes: * Stagger new features so tha

[sugar] Joyride is reopened for development.

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, We announced the Joyride builds as having been frozen for new features several months ago, as we solidified the Update.1 build. Now that it's doing fine in its own stream, we're reopening the Joyride process for new development. So, consider Joyride to be gradually unfreezing. Please announc