Re: [Sugar-devel] Migration from bugs.sugarlabs.org to Github

2017-12-15 Thread Tony Anderson
, and only an increase in resources could fix it. On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 09:29:34PM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, James "Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying about GitHub.' I would have thought this was obvious. THe porupose of GitHub is to provide version control so that

Re: [Sugar-devel] Migration from bugs.sugarlabs.org to Github

2017-12-15 Thread Tony Anderson
ec 15, 2017 at 06:59:10AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: Unfortunately, resources are not available here to test 0.112 on an XO. In the past we have moved to the most recent build released by OLPC. There is no urgency since this year we will have to continue with 13.2.8. Do you propose to release a 1

Re: [Sugar-devel] Migration from bugs.sugarlabs.org to Github

2017-12-14 Thread Tony Anderson
+0200, Tony Anderson wrote: Is our bug-fixing technique capable of fixing bugs present in 0.110? It appears the the XOs will be limited to 13.2.8 and 0.110 for the forseeable future. Tony On Thursday, 14 September, 2017 10:39 AM, James Cameron wrote: Thanks for the idea. If someone is available

Re: [Sugar-devel] Migration from bugs.sugarlabs.org to Github

2017-12-14 Thread Tony Anderson
Is our bug-fixing technique capable of fixing bugs present in 0.110? It appears the the XOs will be limited to 13.2.8 and 0.110 for the forseeable future. Tony On Thursday, 14 September, 2017 10:39 AM, James Cameron wrote: Thanks for the idea. If someone is available to do it, great. A

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: [IAEP] Sugar Design Meeting/Reunión 21 September at 11 PM UTC IRC Sugar Meeting [DESIGN]

2017-09-22 Thread Tony Anderson
On 09/22/2017 07:19 AM, Laura Vargas wrote: Let's say for example a teacher on field suggests we should make downloading new activities easy and doable from the Sugar User Interface. What should the teacher do with his/her idea? First, we need a way for the teacher to make that request.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: [IAEP] Sugar Design Meeting/Reunión 21 September at 11 PM UTC IRC Sugar Meeting [DESIGN]

2017-09-21 Thread Tony Anderson
meaningful? Do you want to modify the recent addition of projects to the Journal interface? So far I have seen nothing about Sugar that even suggests what you consider the problems with Sugar to be. Tony On 09/21/2017 03:40 PM, Laura Vargas wrote: 2017-09-21 10:09 GMT-05:00 Tony Anderson &l

Re: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Re: [IAEP] Sugar Design Meeting/Reunión 21 September at 11 PM UTC IRC Sugar Meeting [DESIGN]

2017-09-21 Thread Tony Anderson
Could you provide an example of a problem with the UI or UX that requires improvement and could you propose a better way to handle it? SugarLabs has decided to participate in GCI which gives us potential resources to tackle any of these problems which can be specifically identified. Tony

Re: [Sugar-devel] Native GTK activities with Javascript?

2017-09-21 Thread Tony Anderson
cgi scripts Tony On 09/21/2017 02:06 AM, Sebastian Silva wrote: Hi, I've tinkered a little with gjs and was wondering what would it take to access the sugar-toolkit-gtk3 from Javascript (or Vala for that matter?). Thanks in advance to any pointers.

Re: [Sugar-devel] meet to discuss the release process

2017-09-18 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Walter I'll try to make the meeting. Thank you for reminding us that Sugarlabs is about providing improved educational opportunities for learners. Tony On 09/18/2017 02:14 AM, Walter Bender wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Walter Bender

Re: [Sugar-devel] Poll activty translation with gettext

2017-08-29 Thread Tony Anderson
Any idea by whom and for what reason this was deprecated? Tony On 08/29/2017 07:59 PM, James Cameron wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Internationalization_in_Sugar is deprecated. Poll activity is translated using translate.sugarlabs.org. What are you trying to do? Why not upload

Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [Pkg-sugar-devel] Bug#872747: marked as done (Please make gender choice non-binary)

2017-08-21 Thread Tony Anderson
As it should have been from the beginning. In many deployments, the laptops are not assigned to users at the time the laptop is flashed making the choices moot. Our procedure is to hit enter after the nick. Tony On 08/21/2017 04:07 AM, Sebastian Silva wrote: Hi Sugar folk, This request

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-meeting notes today

2017-06-28 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi James When you use the word activities, do you mean Sugar Activities? At least in the original Sugar design, each activity is to supply its own dependent packages in the bundle. The 'owner' of the activity is expected to test the activity to verify that it works with a new Sugar release.

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSOC project report for week 2

2017-06-26 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Seetarama I think the website should be optimized for mainstream browsers - not Sugar. An important goal for the website is to attract new users to Sugar. Possibly the majority of Sugar users do not have access to the internet. Tony On 06/26/2017 12:38 PM, pericherla seetaramaraju

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-14 Thread Tony Anderson
. I realize the issue of 'intellectual property' is serious and worthy of discussion in its own right, but off topic here, in my opinion. Tony On 06/14/2017 10:07 PM, D. Joe wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 07:06:06AM +0200, Tony Anderson wrote: It must be a sign of a mature organization

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [IAEP] MOTION: French visa for Samson Goddy to attend 10-year Anniversary Scratch Conf / 50-year Anniversary of Logo

2017-06-13 Thread Tony Anderson
It must be a sign of a mature organization that it has so much time to devote to this. Keep in mind, Samson is going to a Scratch conference. As I understand it, Scratch is now based on Flash. The nature of Flash makes 'open source' and 'free software' a bit problematic. Tony On 06/13/2017

[Sugar-devel] Save As GSOC project

2017-06-01 Thread Tony Anderson
James Cameron has closed PR #327 making Utkarsh Tiwari's GSOC project (Save as feature) a part of Sugar. Thanks to both James and Utkarsh for their painstaking and effective efforts to get this landed. Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] Mind Math Activity

2017-05-29 Thread Tony Anderson
? Please let me know and I shall follow them from now on. Thanks, Sanjay On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Tony Anderson <t...@olenepal.org <mailto:t...@olenepal.org>> wrote: This may be a duplicate. The copy to Walter bounced since I used usa.net <http://usa.net>

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 103, Issue 56

2017-05-29 Thread Tony Anderson
than "Re: Contents of Sugar-devel digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: ASLO2 review (Jatin Dhankhar) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 18:28:25 +0530 From: Jatin Dhankhar <dhankhar.ja...@gmail.com> T

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO2 review

2017-05-29 Thread Tony Anderson
/Dockerfile#L20 <https://github.com/samdroid-apps/aslo/blob/master/socialhelp/Dockerfile#L20> [2] https://goo.gl/VEIzCr On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Tony Anderson <t...@olenepal.org <mailto:t...@olenepal.org>> wrote: Hi Sam

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-25 Thread Tony Anderson
are micromanaging. Yet you aren't engaged in the process you are changing. Alright then, we'll see which process survives the transition. You have made me even more wary, and that's good for our end-users. On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 05:17:53PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: I appreciate this new information

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSOC plans

2017-05-25 Thread Tony Anderson
t 3:15 PM, Tony Anderson <t...@olenepal.org <mailto:t...@olenepal.org>> wrote: Hi, I think the stored bundle should always be browse-200.xo. The latest is determined by the highest version number among those in the addon directory. This way no administrative step is

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-25 Thread Tony Anderson
I have added a wiki page: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities_without_Repositories. This page lists the activities on ASLO where there is no known git repository. Developers and others are encouraged to let us know of a repository we have overlooked. I inadvertantly created a page with

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-25 Thread Tony Anderson
resent. This will require defining standards for the bundle different from those now in place. I expect there will need to be a script to verify that a new activity version has this information, possibly run as a part of bundlebuilder. Tony On 05/25/2017 03:06 PM, James Cameron wrote: O

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-24 Thread Tony Anderson
bundles only as a last resource. Probably is better create a wiki page based in the Pootle page and add all the project without a known repository, and other can help to find the most updated repository. Gonzalo On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Tony Anderson <

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-24 Thread Tony Anderson
only as a last resource. Probably is better create a wiki page based in the Pootle page and add all the project without a known repository, and other can help to find the most updated repository. Gonzalo On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-24 Thread Tony Anderson
, May 23, 2017 at 11:23:25AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, James Thank for these details. I am trying to find out what the standards are for these repositories. Tony Forster contacted me by private email to let me know that textdungeon did not have a repository. Version 4 is version 3

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSOC Plans

2017-05-23 Thread Tony Anderson
needs to be done, let me know. On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote: As I understand it, flask and django are very similar. Flask is supposed to be easier to set up. However, you have a django setup.

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSOC Plans

2017-05-23 Thread Tony Anderson
needs to be done, let me know. On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote: As I understand it, flask and django are very similar. Flask is supposed to be easier to set up. However, you have a django setup.

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-22 Thread Tony Anderson
Cameron wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 04:24:06PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: On 05/22/2017 04:01 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:45:51AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: There are 224 activities in ASLO which do not appear to have github repositories [see attachment]. What do

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-22 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, James Thank for these details. I am trying to find out what the standards are for these repositories. Tony Forster contacted me by private email to let me know that textdungeon did not have a repository. Version 4 is version 3 with the removal of import simplejson which causes an

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-22 Thread Tony Anderson
ne? Tony On 05/23/2017 08:59 AM, Walter Bender wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 4:05 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote: I thought we were past this discussion. Walter has requested the creation of repositories for activities for

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-22 Thread Tony Anderson
ries> but some of these repositories could be moved to the sugarlabs projects after the last time the page was updated Gonzalo On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:24 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote: On 05/22/2017 04:01 PM, James Cameron

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-22 Thread Tony Anderson
On 05/22/2017 04:01 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:45:51AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: There are 224 activities in ASLO which do not appear to have github repositories [see attachment]. What do you mean by that? How are you testing if they have a repository? With Log

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-22 Thread Tony Anderson
, May 22, 2017 at 02:46:25PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: Github is for developers and maintainers. This is where repositories should be for activities, working or not. Making the changes to get the activity to work are then documented and the activity can be released for publishing in ASLO when

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-22 Thread Tony Anderson
Github is for developers and maintainers. This is where repositories should be for activities, working or not. Making the changes to get the activity to work are then documented and the activity can be released for publishing in ASLO when ready. The purpose of the email was to determine if

[Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

2017-05-21 Thread Tony Anderson
There are 224 activities in ASLO which do not appear to have github repositories [see attachment]. Developers of some of these could be keeping a repository locally or on a personal github. If anyone has knowledge of a repository, I would appreciate that information. After traveling this week

Re: [Sugar-devel] browser detection

2017-05-21 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Tim I usually test the screen size. If it 1200x900, it is an XO. Tony On 05/22/2017 01:56 AM, Tim Moody wrote: we are including xo-common.css for all user agents to internet in a box. is there a browser detection scheme I can use for an xo, especially one that I can use in javascript

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-21 Thread Tony Anderson
r Hello in the label and to launch GCompris. At the top, there is from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, call Tony Tony On 05/21/2017 10:27 PM, D. Joe wrote: On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 08:00:47AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: On 05/20/2017 08:32 PM, D. Joe wrote: On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 02:06:55PM +0800,

Re: [Sugar-devel] GSOC Plans

2017-05-20 Thread Tony Anderson
). Thanks, Jatin Dhankhar On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote: Hi Jatin I also missed the meeting - I forgot about it in trying to set up travel for the return to Kigali. I read the mee

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-20 Thread Tony Anderson
to the gnome application. This allows the learner to execute Libre Office, gimp, and other applications in the familiar Sugar environment. Tony On 05/20/2017 08:32 PM, D. Joe wrote: On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 02:06:55PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: Also not disagreeing. I am curious

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-20 Thread Tony Anderson
. Tony On 05/20/2017 01:12 PM, Sebastian Silva wrote: On 19/05/17 23:41, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi, Sebastian Applications installed in gnome can be executed in Sugar with from the command line: $gimp & (& optional since Terminal has tabs). A simple sugar activity wrapper can make a gimp

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-19 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Sebastian Applications installed in gnome can be executed in Sugar with from the command line: $gimp & (& optional since Terminal has tabs). A simple sugar activity wrapper can make a gimp activity. This enables the activity to appear in the Home View. Currently in Rwanda we are using

Re: [Sugar-devel] New ASLO Project Definition

2017-05-19 Thread Tony Anderson
Is a wiki features page the right way to get the design documented for this project? Tony On 05/20/2017 05:54 AM, Walter Bender wrote: One of the pre-summer tasks is to answer that question. On May 19, 2017 5:51 PM, "James Cameron" > wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] New ASLO Project Definition

2017-05-19 Thread Tony Anderson
ian image. Fedora builds a SoaS image. I know of several others who build images, but I can't reveal their identity here. Their continued engagement has made the tooling stable. I don't think the user base is large enough for an image building web service. Workflows [...] 3. I assume tar files ar

Re: [Sugar-devel] New ASLO Project Definition

2017-05-18 Thread Tony Anderson
, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net> wrote: On 05/19/2017 09:24 AM, Chris Leonard wrote: The more difficult question is how to localize the summary and description of the individual activities. At present, it appears we don't attempt to localize this information. The

Re: [Sugar-devel] New ASLO Project Definition

2017-05-18 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi Sam, Thanks for the proposal. Naturally this raises the question of the relationship between your ASLOv3 and the GSOC project. Do you see two parallel implementations or a merger of the two projects? I agree with your proposal to install the activity repositories in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Minor update to Make Your Own Sugar Activities!

2017-05-18 Thread Tony Anderson
g <mailto:la...@somosazucar.org>> wrote: 2017-03-14 7:13 GMT-05:00 Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com <mailto:walter.ben...@gmail.com>>: On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>>

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

2017-05-17 Thread Tony Anderson
On 05/17/2017 11:07 PM, Samuel Cantero wrote: AFAIK not all deployments are using ASLO as main backend for Software Update. In fact, an static "update URL" with activity information in semantic microformat seems more reliable. In my case, I will never allow and trust in last version sent by a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

2017-05-17 Thread Tony Anderson
On 05/17/2017 03:11 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 02:44:10PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: The proposal is online at https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations. Click on Sugar Labs. There are 9 accepted proposals, each with a pdf description

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

2017-05-17 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Sebastian. For once we agree completely. ;) The intent of this project is to separate development and maintenance from publishing and distribution. ASLO will be the library of published activities available for installation. Development and maintenance would be done using github

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

2017-05-17 Thread Tony Anderson
The proposal is online at https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations. Click on Sugar Labs. There are 9 accepted proposals, each with a pdf description. The project intends to refresh ASLO using Django. Django is a 'fusion' framework involving Python plus templates using HTML5. It is

Re: [Sugar-devel] New-ASLO and Sugar Network

2017-05-16 Thread Tony Anderson
of an activity and that these bundles be 'published' to ASLO. Tony On 05/17/2017 10:47 AM, Sebastian Silva wrote: On 16/05/17 20:53, Tony Anderson wrote: The Sugar Labs wiki page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network states that Sugar Network has been renamed as School Network. Not exactly

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] (Goals and Mission) with Microsoft in it?

2017-05-16 Thread Tony Anderson
The Sugar Labs wiki page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network states that Sugar Network has been renamed as School Network. The page links to http://school-network.org/hub/. This screen offers activities, books, and groups but only the activities appears to be populated. It offers a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [wiki bug] Roadmap Sugar Labs - Ambiguity detected on how to make Decisions

2017-05-09 Thread Tony Anderson
This seems to be Sugar Labs 'Groundhog Day'. This discussion repeats one of last year. In January 2016, Lionel Laske raised the issue of defining the future direction of Sugar Labs. Despite a motion approved in January 2017, Caryl and Laura started with the premise that the SLOBS needed to

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2017-05-01 Thread Tony Anderson
Thanks for this testing. You are showing some serious ambiguity in the core implementation of activity.py A return of True from can_close should end processing except write_file. Aside from user 'ctrl' + q or quit, the activity could be closed as a result of the end of the Sugar session by

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/aslo] does not show latest version of an activity (#3)

2017-04-30 Thread Tony Anderson
Sorry. The last message is an updated version of the first. The first one got sent inadvertantly and can be ignored. The subject should probably be 'Goals and modules proposal'. Tony ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/aslo] does not show latest version of an activity (#3)

2017-04-30 Thread Tony Anderson
This 'Goals and modules proposal' https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release#Glucose_.28base.29_modules needs some work before being adopted. It needs to reflect our move to github/sugarlabs. The terms glucose, fructose, and sucrose need clear definition and explanation. For

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/aslo] does not show latest version of an activity (#3)

2017-04-30 Thread Tony Anderson
I assume https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release#Glucose_.28base.29_modules is a proposal (as shown at the top). Before acceptance, it needs some work. It needs to reflect our move to github/sugarlabs. The terms glucose, fructose, and sucrose need clear definition and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar] Revert "Fixed Issue: #4940 Journal entries name can be renamed to blank" (#752)

2017-04-26 Thread Tony Anderson
What 'finer points' do you feel are outstanding? Here is the checklist - * Flake8 in alerts.py fixed Please note - There are already existing flake8 errors before this PR. I would suggest fixing them in a separate PR rather than including in this one. * Branch rebased to the latest

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2017-04-26 Thread Tony Anderson
As you may know, I submitted this feature for GSOC17. Along with Sebastian Silva, I worked as a mentor on this project. The feature was modeled on the way most document processors work. They offer the ability to save or save as the document. Save is used when the document has already been

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar] Failure to merge PR #327

2017-04-26 Thread Tony Anderson
The purpose of the feature has been described over and over again. It is not about files with blank titles. Utkarsh chose to alert the user who clicked on ok with a blank title. Perfectly reasonable programming decision. The technical issues you raised were fixed by Utkarsh quickly and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar] Revert "Fixed Issue: #4940 Journal entries name can be renamed to blank" (#752)

2017-04-26 Thread Tony Anderson
That is apparently exactly what you are doing, forcing the learner to think like you do. What about the learner who would like an alert when entering a blank title? Does that thinking count for anything? My mode of thinking is that #327 is what it is and should be merged without any more

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar] Revert "Fixed Issue: #4940 Journal entries name can be renamed to blank" (#752)

2017-04-26 Thread Tony Anderson
The issue #4940 was well taken. The fix should have been applied. Back in the day, a customer wanted to show off his hospital database. His query was for patients older that 100. He was amazed to see huge list. Turned out that date of birth had been left blank and so the epoch date zero was

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2017-04-25 Thread Tony Anderson
That has happened to me when I wanted to change a title. I erased the title to write a new one and hit enter. This can easily happen on an XO where the trackpad can cause strange things to happen. I would have appreciated a warning. If the save as feature includes preventing a blank title

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-build] run command showing too many errors and warnings in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (#49)

2017-04-25 Thread Tony Anderson
t you have made on a Sugar or Sugar activity bug." And for Sugarizer "Using instructions here develop your first Sugar-Web activity Send us a screenshot of your new activity executed in Sugarizer". On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 09:46:50AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: Agreed. Personally,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-build] run command showing too many errors and warnings in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (#49)

2017-04-25 Thread Tony Anderson
this makes; - the native packaged Sugar environment; and, - the alternative requirements (pull requests or Sugarizer), much more useful than before. In the end, this is up to Walter as responsible contact. On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 06:50:59AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: Yeah! Now if we could only ge

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-build] run command showing too many errors and warnings in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (#49)

2017-04-25 Thread Tony Anderson
Yeah! Now if we could only get the GSOC invitations to stop requiring candidates to build a 'development environment' and ask them to use Sugar., not a sugar substitute. Tony On 04/26/2017 04:44 AM, James Cameron wrote: @iamutkarshtiwari , certainly

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2017-04-25 Thread Tony Anderson
case for giving a saved instance a title; which is where the title that would be used is not satisfactory. I don't see any evidence before the patch that a user supplied title is overridden. On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:07:21PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: My point was clear. The fact that Browse

Re: [Sugar-devel] motion for a new mission statement

2017-04-25 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, James I cloned the repo and made a change. However, I was unable to test the effect because index.html in the repo is not valid html. Tony On 04/25/2017 09:35 AM, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:29:50AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: I do have access to the wiki. However

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2017-04-24 Thread Tony Anderson
for giving a saved instance a title; which is where the title that would be used is not satisfactory. I don't see any evidence before the patch that a user supplied title is overridden. On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:07:21PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: My point was clear. The fact that Browse overrides

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2017-04-24 Thread Tony Anderson
months later or so the user can reflect on his search at the time. But Utkarsh is certainly correct, Browse has no business overriding the user supplied title. I hope this is more understandable. Tony On 04/25/2017 09:39 AM, James Cameron wrote: On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:28:00AM +0800, Tony

Re: [Sugar-devel] motion for a new mission statement

2017-04-24 Thread Tony Anderson
to modify the Downloads page, I think I need help from people who know more about the technical issues. What I could perhaps do is prepare a prototype. Tony On 04/25/2017 06:04 AM, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 05:10:36PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: Hey, I think we are making

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2017-04-24 Thread Tony Anderson
The page https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Save-As has been edited to provide more information on the feature and to update it to my understanding of the status. I am not sure that the issue with Browse is relevant. Browse does not save a 'document' created by a user. It saves the urls

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-24 Thread Tony Anderson
ivity repositories are somewhere else; read the activity/activity.info file, check the metadata on the activities.sugarlabs.org app store, or the Activity page on wiki.sugarlabs.org, or our deprecated gitorious instance." On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 02:46:08PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: Apparently

Re: [Sugar-devel] motion for a new mission statement

2017-04-24 Thread Tony Anderson
to install on their own computer. Tony On 04/24/2017 12:50 PM, James Cameron wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:58:45AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: My problem with this exercise is it again postpones action to fulfill the mission. The board is responsible for what it talks about and decides

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-24 Thread Tony Anderson
+0800, Tony Anderson wrote: Hi James, Walter I reviewed the 71 activities for which I created a repository in github/ sugarlabs. Of these 47 are not duplicates to repositories on git.sugalabs.org. But you omit repositories in other than git.sugarlabs.org? For instance, Implode-17 has

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-23 Thread Tony Anderson
at 11:25:49AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: Thanks to all for the valuable suggestions. Your advice seems to me to check on each activity in ASLO to see if it has a repository on git.sugarlabs.org. Since there is no obvious way to know if the current repository in git.sugarlabs.org is consistent

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-23 Thread Tony Anderson
cannot host repositories on GitHub that don't have a license. On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 11:25:49AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: Thanks to all for the valuable suggestions. Your advice seems to me to check on each activity in ASLO to see if it has a repository on git.sugarlabs.org. Since

Re: [Sugar-devel] motion for a new mission statement

2017-04-23 Thread Tony Anderson
are using sucrose as the name. I think this can be confusing and is a leftover from Activity Central. So I believe there is real work to do, Tony On 04/24/2017 10:46 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: On Apr 21, 2017 9:06 PM, "Tony Anderson" <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-22 Thread Tony Anderson
ttp://git.sugarlabs.org> to github.org <http://github.org> with the whole commit history. It would be nice to keep all repos with same format in name and inside one Github organization exclusively dedicated for activities. Regards, On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 10:42 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-22 Thread Tony Anderson
message to past or future contributors. On a more mundane level, the lack of history means as a developer I have no way of knowing whom to ask for help. -walter On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-22 Thread Tony Anderson
PM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote: The process for installing repositories requires that the target repository be empty. I would appreciate someone who could itemize what needs to be in a repository such as the license

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-22 Thread Tony Anderson
, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote: The process for installing repositories requires that the target repository be empty. I would appreciate someone who could itemize what needs to be in a repository such as

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-22 Thread Tony Anderson
no way of knowing whom to ask for help. -walter On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 9:17 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote: The process for installing repositories requires that the target repository be empty. I would appreciate someo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-22 Thread Tony Anderson
The process for installing repositories requires that the target repository be empty. I would appreciate someone who could itemize what needs to be in a repository such as the license, .gitignore, README.md, and so on. Much of that can probably be done by a script using the information

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-22 Thread Tony Anderson
:47 AM, "Tony Anderson" <t...@olenepal.org <mailto:t...@olenepal.org>> wrote: I was able to add the following activities to GitHub today. fifty-two-activity fonts-activity foodchain-activity foodforce2-activity fortune-maker-activity fractio

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCompris query

2017-04-22 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi Utkarsh, Good to hear from you again. Actually, the new GCompris works very well on all models of XO. #!/bin/bash here=$PWD #install GCompris activity echo 'install GCompris' rm -rf /home/olpc/Activities/GCompris.activity sugar-install-bundle gcompris-7.xo #install gcompris sudo rpm -ivh

[Sugar-devel] Activities added to GithHub

2017-04-22 Thread Tony Anderson
I was able to add the following activities to GitHub today. fifty-two-activity fonts-activity foodchain-activity foodforce2-activity fortune-maker-activity fractionauts-activity gcd-activity gears-activity gedit-activity geotonky-activity get-things-done-activity graph-plotter-activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Allow to disable installing .desktop files (#362)

2017-04-21 Thread Tony Anderson
What is the impact of this on Sebastian Silva's technique to enable activities through the gnome desktop? Tony On 04/22/2017 06:29 AM, James Cameron wrote: Merged #362 . — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] Save As Popup (#327)

2017-04-21 Thread Tony Anderson
I am unfamiliar with the technical term 'momentum'. The request is clear, merge the changes with the master. This PR was developed as part of GSOC16 so any momentum, whatever that is, is the responsibility of the developers. The material progress needed is to test the PR with the current

Re: [Sugar-devel] motion for a new mission statement

2017-04-21 Thread Tony Anderson
How is this not redundant to the motion approved in January 2017? Tony On 04/22/2017 05:29 AM, Walter Bender wrote: Through a community effort led by Caryl Bigenho, I am making a motion. Motion: Revise the Sugar Labs mission statement to "Sugar Labs is a volunteer-run project whose mission

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Testing of Activities

2017-04-19 Thread Tony Anderson
ty.info> bundle) and making the new bundles. > > -walter > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com <mailto:cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Ton

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Testing of Activities

2017-04-19 Thread Tony Anderson
I believe the plan is that GitHub is the source repository for the activities and git is used to maintain version control. Activities are published to ASLO with the bundles built by setup.py. As in most uses of git, a new bundle requires the version number to be incremented with the

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Testing of Activities

2017-04-19 Thread Tony Anderson
(and ensuring that the correct repo path is in the activity.info <http://activity.info> bundle) and making the new bundles. -walter On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com <mailto:cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:30

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Testing of Activities

2017-04-19 Thread Tony Anderson
I posted issues for each indicating the results of the tests. Tony On 04/19/2017 08:50 PM, Walter Bender wrote: Do you have the details re the broken activities? regards. -walter On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net <mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net&g

[Sugar-devel] Testing of Activities

2017-04-18 Thread Tony Anderson
I spent the last two plus days testing the 137 activities with repositories in github/sugarlabs. Of these, 103 work on Ubuntu 16.04 sucrose. This leaves 34 which do not work. The biggest problem is version control. Most of these activities were placed in github during GCI early in 2016. The

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCompris query

2017-04-15 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Chris I am installing the qt version in gnome and then have a wrapper in Sugar. This new version is a complete rewrite to use web technology. I also have it installed on my Kindle Fire. AFIK, the GCompris activities in ASLO do not work with current Sugar. Tony On 04/16/2017 02:19 AM,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugarizer flatpak package

2017-04-14 Thread Tony Anderson
I am not familiar with this approach. How would the user install a flatpack version on his computer. Would it need to be a Linux distribution or could it be Windows 10 or MacOS? How would the user access the installed Sugar - launch as an application in his os or reboot / chroot as we do

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugarizer flatpak package

2017-04-13 Thread Tony Anderson
I apparently misunderstood. I had thought you were working on Sugar. Does this address any current problem with installing Sugarizer? Does this flatpak option apply to Sugar? Tony On 04/14/2017 12:51 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: Hi Great work :) On Apr 13, 2017 12:41 PM, "Manuel Quiñones"

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] 2017 Goals for Sugar Labs

2017-04-10 Thread Tony Anderson
é; Adam Holt; igna...@sugarlabs.org; walter.ben...@gmail.com; Tony Anderson; George Hunt; José Miguel García; SLOBs; iaep; sugar-devel; Dave Crossland *Subject:* Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] 2017 Goals for Sugar Labs Hi Caryl and all, Last year we - as a community - made the exercise to document a l

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