[Sugar-devel] Deployments survey results

2015-05-05 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Hello community, In the last months, the SuarLabs Oversight Board run a survey between people involved in the deployments, with the objective of get information to help us evaluate alternatives for future developments at SugarLabs, Here is a document we elaborated, summarizing the results of the

Re: [Sugar-devel] More details on brightness control in Sugar

2015-05-05 Thread James Cameron
Thanks for the research. On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 06:27:59PM -0400, Martin Abente wrote: [...] It would not be too difficult to re-implement the same mechanism for Sugar. In fact I have re-implemented the exact same functionality provided by gsd-backlight-helper in Python.

[Sugar-devel] Feature freeze reminder

2015-05-05 Thread Martin Abente
Hello everyone, This is just a friendly reminder that we are less than 2 weeks (May 18) away from our Features Freeze deadline [1]. For those working in features I recommend to prioritize and focus on those that have been actively reviewed. Quality over quantity will be ;) Also, make sure to

[Sugar-devel] Community XO software builds

2015-05-05 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
I saw some discussion last week about the community XO software builds. This seems to be something which gets many people excited. However according to my web server, there have not been very many downloads of them. If I may ask: - Who actually is using/testing these images? - Why? -

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community XO software builds

2015-05-05 Thread tkkang
Who actually is using/testing these images? Why? I am as I try to to see if I could still get some life out of XO with whatever development that is going forward with upgrades. Is there a reason you are not looking into using an official (OLPC or deployment) build? Use that also but

Re: [Sugar-devel] Community XO software builds

2015-05-05 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi Samuel, I think your volunteer work is important. It is not clear to me exactly what the focus is of your images, nor where the repositories with the ini files for the builder, or the download link for the ready images. This is probably the reason you have so few downloads logged. Perhaps we

[Sugar-devel] More details on brightness control in Sugar

2015-05-05 Thread Martin Abente
Hello Sam and James, I am moving our discussion from Sam's pull request ( https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/437) to here because this particular post is bit long. Regarding James request: ...instead understand how both gnome-settings-daemon and unity-settings-daemon implement what they do