[Sugar-devel] wiki.sugarlabs.org ongoing maintenance

2013-04-15 Thread Bernie Innocenti
Today a serious security hole was announced for MediaWiki, so I started a long overdue upgrade of our main wiki. Our wiki has grown quite large and the upgrade from Mediawiki 1.19 to 1.20 required several slow steps, so unfortunately I had to leave before fixing up the local wikis. Meanwhile, ple

Re: [Sugar-devel] [sugar TamTamJam development]

2013-04-15 Thread Jared
Hello all, my name is Jared and I'm currently working on contributing to the TamTamJam sugar activity as part of an assignment for my university. I was wondering if any one on the mailing list has contributed to the project, or could provide some assistance with a current error I'm having. I ap

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hacking on HTML activities UI (was Re: GSoC 13)

2013-04-15 Thread suraj ks
Ok, In a nutshell, These are the tasks for this project. Going by the way Lionel suggested, Create a sugar activity with full screen web view control. Modify the current js framework and make use of "native features" to be able to write html activities in Sugar. Lionel mentioned, "The step 1

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] [SANDBOX] Matetón-7

2013-04-15 Thread Rodrigo Pérez Fulloni
> > Review Information: > Reviewer: Walter Bender > Comments: I was testing v8 and there seems to be a problem with > data/Manager.py I reads/writes to ./data/... which is not very robust in Sugar. Please use > activity.get_activity_root() to access your activity's data directories: > instance, da

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Etoys] Use ALSA sound backend if available

2013-04-15 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 15.04.2013, at 07:53, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: >> Extend the sound backend selection code to consider using ALSA. >> On XO-1.75 and XO-4 this fixes sound in etoys with squeak-vm-4.x. >> It also fixes XO-4 sound recording which was

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC 2013] Interested in "Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard"

2013-04-15 Thread Bastien
Gonzalo Odiard writes: > FYI, I will convert the update of the sugar manual in the olpc wiki > [1] to rst to generate new content for the Help activity. > > I will be working on this today and tomorrow probably. Great -- don't hesitate to use my repository, I can give you write access if that's

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH Etoys] Use ALSA sound backend if available

2013-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > Extend the sound backend selection code to consider using ALSA. > On XO-1.75 and XO-4 this fixes sound in etoys with squeak-vm-4.x. > It also fixes XO-4 sound recording which was not working on any previous > version. Ping, any news her

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC 2013] Interested in "Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard"

2013-04-15 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
FYI, I will convert the update of the sugar manual in the olpc wiki [1] to rst to generate new content for the Help activity. I will be working on this today and tomorrow probably. Gonzalo [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help_Activity_refresh/TOC On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Bastien wrote:

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC 2013] Interested in "Implement help mechanism for activities using Mallard"

2013-04-15 Thread Kalpa Welivitigoda
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Kalpa Welivitigoda wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Bastien wrote: > >> Walter Bender writes: >> >> > Coming up with a decent framework which we can populate from these >> > sources would take us a long ways. >> >> Indeed. I created this repo: >>

[Sugar-devel] Request for ideas regarding Project Sharing Website

2013-04-15 Thread Abhiroop Bhatnagar
Hello everyone, I am a BTech student at IIT Kanpur in India. I am interested in contributing to Sugar. I think GSoC projects can be a good starting point for me. Specifically, I am interested in working on the Project Sharing Website. Apart from the features listed on the GSoC page, I would like su