[Sugar-devel] What is a blocker bug today?

2009-02-02 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Why is this bug marked as Blocker? http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/199 Traditionally, we made Blocker mean that a XOOS release must wait for it to be fixed. Now that we have multiple downstreams, we might want to rethink the semantics to mean no sucrose release until all blockers are fixed,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas Distribution/OS

2009-02-02 Thread Noah Kantrowitz
On Feb 2, 2009, at 1:20 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Simon Schampijer wrote: Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: Can we add Soas as one of the field alternatives? Couldn't quickly figure out how to do it myself... Yeah the admin interface does not seem to let you change the custom fields we added

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas Distribution/OS

2009-02-02 Thread Simon Schampijer
Bernie Innocenti wrote: Simon Schampijer wrote: Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: Can we add Soas as one of the field alternatives? Couldn't quickly figure out how to do it myself... Yeah the admin interface does not seem to let you change the custom fields we added to the trac.ini :/ Bernie you

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas Distribution/OS

2009-02-02 Thread Simon Schampijer
Simon Schampijer wrote: Bernie Innocenti wrote: Simon Schampijer wrote: Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: Can we add Soas as one of the field alternatives? Couldn't quickly figure out how to do it myself... Btw, i guess we should move now all the Bugs that are filed under the SoaS component and

[Sugar-devel] Aside: Neighborhood participants

2009-02-02 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Morgan Collett wrote: Also don't blame avahi for the fact that we send out updates every time you alt-tab between shared activities, so that your icon can jump to the appropriate snowflake on everyone else's Neighborhood Views... I _strongly_

Re: [Sugar-devel] Soas Distribution/OS

2009-02-02 Thread Simon Schampijer
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Btw, i guess we should move now all the Bugs that are filed under the SoaS component and tag them SoaS Distribution and remove the SoaS component, or? I think we should keep the component.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: sugar-widgets request

2009-02-02 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:13:58PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 13:11, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:08:11AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 02:32, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Hi all, While

Re: [Sugar-devel] [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: sugar-widgets request

2009-02-02 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: I mean new sugar-widgets package should use only public activity API, something like a current-sugar's-version-independent link between sugar and activities (mostly honey activities). That's pretty much what

Re: [Sugar-devel] Aside: Neighborhood participants

2009-02-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 2 Feb 2009, at 16:43, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Morgan Collett wrote: Also don't blame avahi for the fact that we send out updates every time you alt-tab between shared activities, so that your icon can jump to the appropriate snowflake

Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.

2009-02-02 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:25:54AM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:46:35AM +0100, Bernie Innocenti wrote: C. Scott Ananian wrote: OK, thanks. The

Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.

2009-02-02 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Bernie Innocenti wrote: Another issue is how we integrate the updater with addons.sl.o. Because the OLPC microformat is trivial, it might be easy to modify the remora's html output to be compatible with it. Mick, Tomeu and David, who have had a closer look at the code, might want to comment.

Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Ties Stuij cjst...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: So this depends on a simple service-announcement scheme. I'll sidestep

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote: Morgan Collett wrote: Also don't blame avahi for the fact that we send out updates every time you alt-tab between shared activities, so that your icon can jump to the appropriate snowflake on everyone else's Neighborhood

Re: [Sugar-devel] #104 MAJO: [Trac] Bug reporting tickets don't ask for enough information to pinpoint the software versions in use.

2009-02-02 Thread Stanley Sokolow
I don't know. That's up to your debugging team members. I just submitted a new bug report. I see the version field which allows values for the Sugar version used. Stan -- On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:37 AM, SugarLabs Bugs bugtracker-nore...@sugarlabs.org wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: My suggestions: DNS-SD and libepc (http://live.gnome.org/libepc/). There's no need for Sugar-specific solutions here; we

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:17 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/4489030/4489031/04489571.pdf?temp=x I don't want adventure. I want something old and safe ;-) Maybe we can fake this with good old DNS lookups - but those will fail

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity updater

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Jonas Smedegaard wrote: What Debian package? I found no mention of olpc-update anywhere in the source code for Sugar, so I guess you are talking about something OLPC-specific _below_ Sugar, right? olpc-update is

Re: [Sugar-devel] What is a blocker bug today?

2009-02-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 09:44, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Why is this bug marked as Blocker? http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/199 I would say it's a blocker because that's the default value for that field and the first person who modified the ticket (Marco) after those fields

Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:20 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: I don't understand your problem. How does the XS know what URLs to mask? For example, say the current version of Foo.xo (which the XS has) has a url of http://sugarlabs.org/activities/ in its metadata but _old_ versions

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Feb 2, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: 'd like to read that paper (anyone got access to IEEE pubs?) http://radian.org/~krstic/krebs-sd.pdf -- Ivan Krstić krs...@solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu | http://radian.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-widgets request

2009-02-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 02:32, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Hi all, While tweaking/hacking some activities I have to, from time to time, copypaste code between activities. Sometime it works well: tempo slider from TamTam activities means 20-30 lines and 5-7 images. Now (for

Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.

2009-02-02 Thread Bernie Innocenti
C. Scott Ananian wrote: OK, thanks. The existing updater works fine in Debian; I don't know if it was ever pushed into koji, but it is certainly compatible with Fedora. If anyone wants to develop a new updater, I can probably offer some advice. Using an explicit update_url field in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity updater

2009-02-02 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:00:53PM +0100, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Jonas Smedegaard wrote: What Debian package? I found no mention of olpc-update anywhere in the source code for Sugar, so I guess you are talking about something OLPC-specific

Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: pull it back on list), but while trying to follow this thread I'd been assuming one of the XS functions is as an http proxy cache server (squid or some such). This wouth then help reduce common internet traffic via

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to move on? Spins, SoaS, and more!

2009-02-02 Thread Sebastian Dziallas
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: But regarding the Education Spin: Couldn't we push Sugar in there? The KDE project is doing a great job with their applications regarding education, and they continue to do so. Recently,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread Morgan Collett
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 14:18, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@laptop.org wrote: Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: My suggestions: DNS-SD and libepc

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity updater

2009-02-02 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 13:00, Bernie Innocenti ber...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Jonas Smedegaard wrote: What Debian package? I found no mention of olpc-update anywhere in the source code for Sugar, so I guess you are talking about something OLPC-specific _below_ Sugar, right? olpc-update is the

[Sugar-devel] Activity updater

2009-02-02 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: What Debian package? I found no mention of olpc-update anywhere in the source code for Sugar, so I guess you are talking about something OLPC-specific _below_ Sugar, right? olpc-update is the official updater for the core OS of the OLPC distribution. It is very

Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:38 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: I still believe the proper way to do this is to have a local offline cache. The protocol was explicitly designed to be easily cacheable.

Re: [Sugar-devel] What is a blocker bug today?

2009-02-02 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: I guess at some point the default was Blocker, because there lots of tickets marked that way in trac. Yeah, we should re-prioritize them. Do we have a Bugmaster role? We should /me steps back... quickly! -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/ \X/

Re: [Sugar-devel] What is a blocker bug today?

2009-02-02 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
A bugsquad even! Reprioritized most of mine yesterday... Marco On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: I guess at some point the default was Blocker, because there lots of tickets marked that way in trac. Yeah, we should

Re: [Sugar-devel] sugar-widgets request

2009-02-02 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:08:11AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 02:32, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: Hi all, While tweaking/hacking some activities I have to, from time to time, copypaste code between activities.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Carol Farlow Lerche
I think this project often makes the perfect into the enemy of the good. Consequently we end up having less collaboration than, e.g., any system in the last 10 years that could install vnc server, while claiming that collaboration is a principal focus of the project. On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:34

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Martin Langhoff wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: My suggestions: DNS-SD and libepc (http://live.gnome.org/libepc/). There's no need for Sugar-specific solutions here; we just need to use existing standard solutions. Yep - I want existing

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Eben Eliason
I think that the addition of a new property in the activity.info file would be logical here. Make it an integer indicating the maximum number of supported participants. Unshared activities would report '1', activities like video chat (with technical limitations) or chess (with obvious player

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread Bernie Innocenti
C. Scott Ananian wrote: When I read the Zeroconf book, I got the impression that the _standard_ was carefully designed to minimize needless broadcasts and scale well in real scenarios. I can't comment on the current Avahi _implementation_ though. This is true for wired networks; not

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: I think that the addition of a new property in the activity.info file would be logical here. Make it an integer indicating the maximum number of supported participants. OK, but as an Activity author I might like to specify

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: In my mind, this would work perfectly with the above scheme, whereby any activity that already has max_participants in it could be viewed in

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Morgan Collett wrote: Also don't blame avahi for the fact that we send out updates every time you alt-tab between shared activities, so that your icon can jump to the appropriate snowflake on everyone else's Neighborhood Views... as well as sending who joined and left... Mature GUIs have a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread Gary C Martin
On 3 Feb 2009, at 01:02, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eben Eliason wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: In my mind, this would work perfectly with the above scheme, whereby any activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: How does the XS know what URLs to mask? Surely the URLs to mask are the source URLs of the .xo bundles in Hi Ben, The gotcha is described in the paragraph you snipped :-) right after my question. I try hard

Re: [Sugar-devel] Service announcement scheme - (Re: A small request.)

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:13 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: 802.11s is not simple, nor safe. lol. That's right. Now, you are talking about DNS-SD without mDNS. Spent some good time reading up on both, and DNS-SD sounds good for what we're trying to do. Everybody uses them

Re: [Sugar-devel] Is it possible to disable sharing for an Activity?

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Gary C Martin g...@garycmartin.com wrote: Happy to be proven wrong, and I guess it could be a Sugar feature not really intended for XOs. Let's let the flowers bloom: I don't doubt that there are many ways to make *better* collaboration, on an activity-by-activity

Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:46 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: Only works with HTTP -- that's why were are careful to make our protocols only use HTTP. Several of our protocols are http based, but not all. What I am stating is that for almost all protocols we need a service

Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.

2009-02-02 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:46 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: Only works with HTTP -- that's why were are careful to make our protocols only use HTTP. Several of our protocols are http based, but not

Re: [Sugar-devel] A small request.

2009-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:10 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: You failed to convince me. How (...)? All I can suggest is that you go back on this thread and read my email. Here's a clarification (I know my writing isn't always clear): the url in the metadata is not expected to