Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)

2009-08-13 Thread David Farning
David, Thank you, that is exactly the direction that we need to head! david On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:11 PM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: From my end, I can offer extensive feedback on Sugar usage in Andalucian schools, when we ship our next release in September. As this is a

Re: [Sugar-devel] feedback from a teacher in Uruguay

2009-08-14 Thread David Farning
Tickets filed for 2-5. Thanks david 2009/8/13 Gabriel Eirea gei...@gmail.com: Hi all, I'm sending below the original text (in Spanish) of a teacher friend's request. I'll try to translate her main concerns. 1) Mesh network doesn't work. Very few kids can get in the same network. She

[Sugar-devel] community support

2009-08-14 Thread David Farning
http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs is getting some questions from users. If you are interest in community support, here is your chance:) david ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback

2009-08-21 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sorry, late to this party, but I've finally got a recent build with Tomeu's Ad-hoc network support installed on 2 XO's here for testing (no luck with SoaS-on-XO-1 builds yet, but F11-for-XO-1 build 5 works well). OK...

Re: [Sugar-devel] Ad-hoc network UI feedback

2009-08-21 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: On 21 Aug 2009, at 21:15, David Farning wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Gary C Marting...@garycmartin.com wrote: Sorry, late to this party, but I've finally got a recent build with Tomeu's Ad-hoc network

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] trac.sugarlabs.org: Trac being upgraded, Aug 23 10:00-13:00 EST

2009-08-24 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bernie Innocentiber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Mon, 24-08-2009 a las 11:17 +0200, Bert Freudenberg escribió: -1 to trac.sugarlabs.org too *If* a name change is desired then at least make it a generic one (like bugs.s.o), otherwise we have to change again should

Re: [Sugar-devel] The ARM is near

2009-08-27 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartzbmsch...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Sharp PC-Z1: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/sharps-5-inch-pc-z1-netwalker-honors-the-zaurus-legacy/ Nokia N900: http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/ A new wave of devices is approaching.  They have

Re: [Sugar-devel] The ARM is near

2009-08-29 Thread David Farning
2009/8/29 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net: Your points are well taken and generally I agree with them. Except that I never suggested you should abandon upstream development. Sugar is your calling card, your differentiator, your trademark, your value added... etc, etc, etc. It's what make

[Sugar-devel] GHOP

2009-08-29 Thread David Farning
Just a quick heads up that it looks like google will be running a second round of GHOP[1]. It will likely be later this year or early next year. So high school teachers and students let's start thinking about this. Any volunteers ready to stick up hand their to run the program for SL:) The cool

[Sugar-devel] Does honey still serve a useful purpose?

2009-08-30 Thread David Farning
I have been looking at the process for creating and release new activities. I have been wondering, 'What is the advantage of distributing activities through distros as Honey?' It would seem that installing the activities as .xo bundles via the activity-bundle facility is more reliable and less

[Sugar-devel] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-02 Thread David Farning
The project guidelines are now on the wiki at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . Please edit as necessary. When it looks like the editing has stopped, I ask the board the ratify the guidelines. david ___ Sugar-devel mailing

Re: [Sugar-devel] New Activities on a.sl.o was Sugar Digest 2009-08-11

2009-09-04 Thread David Farning
Thanks, They look great. david On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Gonzalo Odiardgodi...@gmail.com wrote: Caroline, i have uploaded rthe activities: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4212 http://activities.sugarlabs.org/es-ES/sugar/addon/4213

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-04 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Sebastian Dziallassebast...@when.com wrote: David Farning wrote: The project guidelines are now on the wiki at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Project_Guidelines . Please edit as necessary.   When it looks like the editing has stopped, I ask

Re: [Sugar-devel] GPA follow up

2009-09-07 Thread David Farning
Hey Greg, Thanks for lending your time and skill to Sugar Labs. Your work caused three significant improvements in Sugar Labs: 1. You and the rest of the GPA team identified and ticketed many bugs which need fixing. 2. You demonstrated through action and results how an effective bug wrangler

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to add karma api to api.sugarlabs.org?

2009-09-09 Thread David Farning
2009/9/8 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org: hey Dave, How can I put the api docs for Karma on a.sl.o? This is going to involve digging into some code that has been running for over a year without being touched--I think I rebooted the build server once in that time. Any sysadmin types looking for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hello, was Re: Hack to get a USB/SD to autologin to only Sugar-desktop on a stick. from a F12-alpha live CD

2009-09-09 Thread David Farning
Thanks for joining us Douglas. I would like to point out that there are two separate yet interlinked issues at hand: 1. Easy and fast install. 2. Running OS natively on removable solid state media. Douglas' Liveos solved the first issue. It is very fast and easy to install an OS to a hard drive

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hello, was Re: Hack to get a USB/SD to autologin to only Sugar-desktop on a stick. from a F12-alpha live CD

2009-09-09 Thread David Farning
the results david On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Martin Denglermar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 03:21:50PM -0500, David Farning wrote: Thanks for joining us Douglas. I would like to point out that there are two separate yet interlinked issues at hand: 1. Easy and fast

Re: [Sugar-devel] Hello, was Re: Hack to get a USB/SD to autologin to only Sugar-desktop on a stick. from a F12-alpha live CD

2009-09-10 Thread David Farning
...@filteredperception.org wrote: David Farning wrote: Thanks for joining us Douglas. I would like to point out that there are two separate yet interlinked issues at hand: 1. Easy and fast install. 2. Running OS natively on removable solid state media. understood. Douglas' Liveos solved

[Sugar-devel] Unifying the Sugar Labs experience Was: [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-12 Thread David Farning
Isn't this related to Brainstorm and Blueprints in Launchpad? Yes, I agree they are closely related. I would like to take a step back and look at the problems we are trying to solve. Backstory. Over the past couple of months I have spent most of my time working with 'external' people and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-14 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 12:25 -0500, David Farning wrote: Project/SIGs are product focused.  The exist to help guide a project through it's life cycle.  For example, there has recently been some rather heated discussions

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Project Guidelines posted

2009-09-14 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 09:21 -0500, David Farning wrote: The work going on in Nepal is one of the primary reasons for establishing SIGs and projects.  Nepal is doing an amazing job of creating solutions for local problems

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] SLOBs Position on SoaS

2009-09-16 Thread David Farning
As Sean and Martin point out the consequences of this decision extend past SoaS. The effects seem to centre on four levels: 1. Procedural. 2. Mission, Vision, and Values. 3. Operations. 4. SoaS the project. As we work through the levels, a pretty good decision _should_ emerge. Procedural-- As

Re: [Sugar-devel] Any pull with HP?

2009-09-16 Thread David Farning
No, not really. We are not big enough for the major vendors to keep on us their watch list. If you ping me with what you need off list, I can help you with ZaReason contacts. david 2009/9/16 Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net: :-) Does anybody have any pull with HP? For some incomprehensible

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 94

2009-09-17 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: 2009/9/17 Jim Simmons nices...@gmail.com: So the real answer to your question is, how will the other kids upgrade and when will they be able to do it? In the majority of cases (i.e. large deployments) it will be done as a

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Slip of Sucrose 0.86 by one week

2009-09-17 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Dear Sugar community, today at the Developers Meeting it was decided to enact a one week slip of the 0.86 Sucrose release. = 0.86 Final release the 25th September = This is due to the remaining bugs in the stable

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Debian-olpc-devel] [IAEP] Glucose 0.84 and 0.85 packaged for Debian!

2009-09-19 Thread David Farning
Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ Debian-olpc-devel mailing list debian-olpc-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-olpc-devel

Re: [Sugar-devel] Smile activity version 1

2009-09-19 Thread David Farning
By way of introduction for the newer contributors-- Wade started and was the first co-ordinator of the Activities Team. He took a break last spring for the birth of a child:) I wonder if he has looked at activities.sugarlabs.org lately. It has had over 680,000 activity downloads, most of them

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Debian-olpc-devel] [IAEP] Glucose 0.84 and 0.85 packaged for Debian!

2009-09-20 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 03:24:23AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 06:49:00PM -0500, David Farning wrote: 2. manually sync /debian from git.debian.org to git.gnewsense.org 3. do final work

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to add karma api to api.sugarlabs.org?

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
. Create a ccs style sheet to coordinate the look and feel of the landing page, sugar docs, and karma doc. I don't know any javascript or css so it would be helpful if you could find some one to take 1 and 3. david 2009/9/14 Bryan Berry br...@olenepal.org: On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 14:02 -0500, David

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SoaS] The Future of Sugar on a Stick

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:30, Mel Chua meta...@gmail.com wrote: There's a lot going on in this thread, so here is my attempt to summarize discussions so far. If I've missed or misstated anything, my apologies - and it's

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Debian-olpc-devel] [IAEP] Glucose 0.84 and 0.85 packaged for Debian!

2009-09-21 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 07:30:07PM -0500, David Farning wrote: A couple of months ago your packaging systems was pretty new and confusing.  Yesterday I was able to build test packages for GnewSense and Ubuntu.  Pretty

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] more mirrors

2009-09-27 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Mon, 21-09-2009 a las 09:16 +0200, Marten Vijn escribió: Hi, Last saturday I (on EuroBSDcon) was talking with folks for ISC. They be willing to mirror sugar as well. Shall I start working on this? Increasing

[Sugar-devel] Xoos Special Interest Group

2009-09-28 Thread David Farning
As promised, we have started work on the XO operating system SIG at Sugar Labs. The SIG pages are at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Xoos . Based on feedback from the current developers working in this space, the most valuable starting point will be to start making daily Xoos builds. The next step

[Sugar-devel] Test ballot complete. Feedback

2009-09-29 Thread David Farning
not receive a voter token. I will verify their name against the membership log and update the email roster list as necessary. Does anyone else have feedback on the test election? Please submit that feedback to this list or to me personally. David Farning SLOBs election 2009-2010 referee

Re: [Sugar-devel] Test ballot complete. Feedback

2009-09-29 Thread David Farning
This situation appears to be based on a missing email to memb...@sugarlabs.org. In good faith, the membership committee has added Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org to the membership roster. David Farning SLOBs election 2009-2010 referee On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Aleksey Lim alsr

Re: [Sugar-devel] Test ballot complete. Feedback

2009-09-29 Thread David Farning
| brian | APPROVED * Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@?.? | APPROVED * Dave Bauer d...@?.? | daveb | APPROVED The membership committee has added them to the roster. David Farning SLOBs election 2009-2010 referee On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:02 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: I

[Sugar-devel] Sugarcamp_Bolzano_2009

2009-09-29 Thread David Farning
I would like to re-extend the invitation for Sugarcamp_Bolzano_2009[1]. As it stands, we have four people currently registered: 1. Simon Schampijer 2. Tomeu Vizoso 3. Walter Bender 4. David Farning If anyone else is interested please add your name to the wiki page[1]. 1. http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Xoos Special Interest Group

2009-10-02 Thread David Farning
from Steven M. Parrish's F11 on XO1.5 tree and seeing what happens. david On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Sebastian Dziallas sebast...@when.com wrote: David Farning wrote: As promised, we have started work on the XO operating system SIG at Sugar Labs.  The SIG pages are at http

Re: [Sugar-devel] Xoos Special Interest Group

2009-10-05 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:50 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: As promised, we have started work on the XO operating system SIG at Sugar Labs.  The SIG pages are at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go

[Sugar-devel] Business Address

2009-10-06 Thread David Farning
One of the challenges that we have been facing over the last couple of months is the lack of a single physical address for Sugar Labs. As a result, organizations we have been working with have been unclear about how to contact Sugar Labs. I have bought a P.O. Box and set up a telephone number

Re: [Sugar-devel] RFC: Kill the delayed menus for good

2009-10-12 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Mon, 12-10-2009 a las 22:36 -0400, Bernie Innocenti escribió: Hello, Michael just passed by the Acetarium and, since the dinner was late, we found the time to test and review his latest prototype^W patch. I'm

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Conozco Uruguay-7

2009-10-13 Thread David Farning
Gabriel, Could you push another release of Conozco through activities.sugarlabs.org ? I would like to debug the source of the problem rather than fix it manually. david On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Gabriel Eirea gei...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like a problem with the website. You can try

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Conozco Uruguay-7

2009-10-13 Thread David Farning
Please just send the same file as version 8. david On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Gabriel Eirea gei...@gmail.com wrote: David, Should I delete and resend version 7 or should I send the same file as version 8? Regards, Gabriel 2009/10/13 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: Gabriel

Re: [Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Conozco Uruguay-7

2009-10-13 Thread David Farning
for this version, click here. Please, correct this problem and send the file again. Fixed. There was a permission error. You should be able to download from http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4199/ . david 2009/10/13 David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org: Please just send the same file

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] [IAEP] ASLO updates

2009-10-15 Thread David Farning
I'll try to document how mirror brain is setup and how it affects other systems in the wiki this afternoon. Changes to devel, testing, or product activities.sl.o should not affect one another. They are three separate instances consisting of: 1. Separate code trees. 2. Separate database

Re: [Sugar-devel] Submitting New Activities

2009-10-31 Thread David Farning
Art, Will you send me a copy of what you are trying to upload to. Aleskey merged against amo last night. I'll see what I can find. thanks david On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Art Hunkins abhun...@uncg.edu wrote: After getting good help in pushing my new activities (Our Music, and Our

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Digest 2009-11-02

2009-11-03 Thread David Farning
recommended list it is very easy to create an activities.sl.o editor's account for them. david -walter On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Rita Freudenberg r...@squeakland.org wrote: Walter Bender wrote: 5. Thanks to the efforts of Josh Williams, Aleksey Lim, and David Farning, the new http

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Fwd: Sugar Digest 2009-11-02

2009-11-03 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Sameer Verma sve...@sfsu.edu wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I think there are more recommended activities than fit at any one time

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2009-11-16

2009-11-16 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: === Sugar Digest === 1. I am writing this update today while waiting to see if I will called to jury duty. I was originally supposed to report last week, but a deferment was granted since I was in Bolzano. I am not

Re: [Sugar-devel] Non sugar activities on ASLO

2009-11-23 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 17:30, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:23:22PM +, Aleksey Lim wrote: Hi all, Non sugar activities we (could)have on ASLO: ++  programs with high sugar

[Sugar-devel] The sugar stack

2009-11-27 Thread David Farning
It seems time to think about the next _big_ technical issue for growing Sugar Labs. Clearly articulating the Sugar Stack. For the last year or so, we have been circling the issue with talk of stable APIs, Glucose, Fructose, and expected dependencies. Last year, we created the release cycle. At

Re: [Sugar-devel] Contribute

2009-11-28 Thread David Farning
Ccing sugar-devel On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:27 AM, nipun batra nipunredde...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Tomeu,David I would like to get started with Quiz activity.It is a feature i as a student would have always wished to have. Some ideas : 1.If possible integration of .swf (Flash quizzes)

Re: [Sugar-devel] Activity Versioning - Dotted Scheme

2009-11-29 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 03:38:26PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 01:23:22PM -0500, Wade Brainerd wrote: Anecdote: My XO ran out

[Sugar-devel] Turtle Art on Activities.sugarlabs.org

2010-02-25 Thread David Farning
The other day during an infrastructure meeting, Walter brought up some thought on how to enable kids to exchange Turtle Art projects Alsroot has been thinking about how to do this through a.sl.o since he became the activities.sugarlabs.org code maintainer. The high level view is that someone

Re: [Sugar-devel] Turtle Art on Activities.sugarlabs.org

2010-02-25 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:08 PM, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: The other day during an infrastructure meeting, Walter brought up some thought on how to enable kids to exchange Turtle Art projects

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Systems] [IAEP] Turtle Art on Activities.sugarlabs.org

2010-02-28 Thread David Farning
+1. Solutions Grovey has several moodle experts in house On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Bernie Innocenti lt;ber...@codewiz.orggt; wrote: On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 15:34 +, Aleksey Lim wrote: gt; we can move in several directions at the same time, gt; gt; * web hosting, gt; nbsp; I'm more

Re: [Sugar-devel] ASLO - Activities with 0.82 compatibility

2010-03-17 Thread David Farning
Martin, Do you have admin access to ASLO? From there you can flag a version of activity as not working on a release. david On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: In exploring what updated activites we can ship in 8.2.2, I found lots of excellent

Re: [Sugar-devel] Porting LopArt to Sugar

2010-04-05 Thread David Farning
Mohan, I will follow up with them. david On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Mohan Raj R mohanraj@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I found the LopArt idea mentioned in the Project ideas page to be interesting. But I cannot find the LopArt program for Linux (its supposed to be open source for Linux).

[Sugar-devel] No icon with the name ---

2010-04-10 Thread David Farning
We are having an interesting error on packaging sugar for ubuntu. The emulator boots just fine, but the session fails ( back and white screen with no icons) with 1270921802.236372 WARNING root: No icon with the name computer-xo was found in the theme. I am guessing that this is happening

Re: [Sugar-devel] Code Review process changes

2010-05-04 Thread David Farning
I have been trying to keep quite about this until we have had results flowing in Over the past couple of months Bernie, Caroline, and I have been looking at businesses around Sugar and OLPC. One of the ideas that we are exploring is service and support for deployments. As such, we are

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] stepping down as development team coordinator

2010-05-11 Thread David Farning
Thanks for all of your hard work over the years. You have left your excellent mark on Sugar and Sugar Labs. You have carried a heavy load for a long time! I hope that we continue to see your participation in the Sugar / OLPC ecosystem. (I am already seeing your name pop up around gnome:)

[Sugar-devel] Supporting Sugar .88 on the XO1

2010-05-20 Thread David Farning
As Bernie announced, we working on supporting Sugar .88 on the XO-1. This projects is customer driven by the deployment in Paraguay. They, along with bernie, made a decision that it would be more useful, usable, and cost effective to settle on .88 rather than .82. This strictly a decision made

Re: [Sugar-devel] Supporting Sugar .88 on the XO1

2010-05-20 Thread David Farning
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Paul Fox p...@laptop.org wrote: david wrote:   As Bernie announced, we working on supporting Sugar .88 on the XO-1. hi david -- for those of us joining this thread late, can you expand on what/who you mean by we?  (or tell me to read the archives, if that's

Re: [Sugar-devel] Co-maintaining labyrinth

2010-05-21 Thread David Farning
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Fri, 21-05-2010 a las 18:18 +0100, Gary C Martin escribió: Sure, what do I need to change from my side? In git.sugarlabs.org I could find no way to transfer project ownership, only add extra commiters (which Jorge

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Quote, docs (was Re: Sugar Digest 2010-05-20)

2010-05-24 Thread David Farning
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Edward Cherlin echer...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:42, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: ==Sugar Digest== One of the nice things as you walk through the museum is that on almost every wall is a quote about play. They have a nice

[Sugar-devel] review process follow-up.

2010-05-25 Thread David Farning
I would like to invite input on the new process that Tomeu and Bernie have been developing. I am specifically interested in see how Sugar Labs, OLPC, and third parties such as Activity Central can work together most effectively. Admittedly we are causing a disruption, hopefully one which will

Re: [Sugar-devel] review process follow-up.

2010-05-25 Thread David Farning
proposes the interested parties to have a conf call. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 16:00, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to invite input on the new process that Tomeu and Bernie have been developing.  I am specifically interested in see how Sugar Labs, OLPC, and third parties

Re: [Sugar-devel] ANNOUNCE: Sugar 0.88 for the XO-1

2010-05-30 Thread David Farning
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: On 26 May 2010 06:16, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: Hello everyone, we've just started a new development cycle aimed

Re: [Sugar-devel] Paint maintainer MIA?

2010-06-07 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 16:22, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: On 06/07/2010 04:14 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote: Anybody knows if the Paint maintainer is M.I.A.? I have sent patches the last month and James Cameron

Re: [Sugar-devel] Paint maintainer MIA?

2010-06-07 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Manusheel Gupta m...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:34 PM, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 16:22, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote

[Sugar-devel] core maintainers

2010-06-11 Thread David Farning
Over the past couple of months it has appeared that the ramp up of deployment submitted patches has stretched the core maintainers rather short. I would like to consider having Deployment Support Network developers start accepting additional maintainership responsibility and authority.

Re: [Sugar-devel] core maintainers

2010-06-11 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:39 PM, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: Over the past couple of months it has appeared that the ramp up of deployment submitted patches has stretched the core maintainers rather

Re: [Sugar-devel] activity updater

2010-06-14 Thread David Farning
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Sun, 13-06-2010 a las 20:55 +0100, Gary C Martin escribió: OK, not strictly a patch but attached is an updated version of the currently malformed svg module-updater icon that's not drawing correctly in F13. Not sure

Re: [Sugar-devel] core maintainers

2010-06-14 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 18:39, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: Over the past couple of months it has appeared that the ramp up of deployment submitted patches has stretched the core maintainers rather short. I

Re: [Sugar-devel] activity updater

2010-06-15 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Mon, 14-06-2010 a las 11:41 -0500, David Farning escribió: To give credit where credit is due, the ASLO updater is just a update of Scott's code to parse the xml ASLO dynamically creates rather than micoroformat

Re: [Sugar-devel] Taking over Browse maintainership

2010-06-16 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: [Resend because mail with non-subscribed sender address was silented dropped] Since Browse has been unmaintained for several months [1] now, Lucian and I finally decided to step up as maintainers. This

Re: [Sugar-devel] RD vs Product Support

2010-06-18 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Bernie Innocenti's message of Thu Jun 17 22:56:27 + 2010: [RD vs. Finished Product] Every time I see a hypothetical design blocking the delivery of a quick effective solution available

Re: [Sugar-devel] depending on introspection

2010-06-18 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On 18 June 2010 05:04, Tomeu Vizoso tomeu.viz...@collabora.co.uk wrote: It has been mentioned that by updating these dependencies, we'll have to build some more modules in jhbuild for distros such as Debian which won't have

Re: [Sugar-devel] core maintainers

2010-06-21 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 21:02, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 18:39, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: Over

Re: [Sugar-devel] core maintainers

2010-06-21 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 02:02:57PM -0500, David Farning wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 18:39, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: Over

Re: [Sugar-devel] core maintainers

2010-06-21 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Martin Dengler mar...@martindengler.com wrote: David, When you have the time, some clarity here would be appreciated. Martin On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:49:33AM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:58:32PM -0500, David Farning wrote

[Sugar-devel] API documentation.

2010-06-22 Thread David Farning
It looks like we are starting to make progress on the API documentation project. As you may be aware, Seeta.in is working on sphynix based api documentation for the core Sugar modules. Initial work can be seen at http://seeta.in/sugar/api/documentation/dest8/ and

Re: [Sugar-devel] RD vs Product Support

2010-06-23 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Mon, 21-06-2010 a las 10:06 -0400, Martin Langhoff escribió: Here I agree with Tomeu. A subtext of my experimental branches post is that we're too small to split people into clubs (and it's counterproductive

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Proposal release management

2010-06-24 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 24.06.2010, at 09:32, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, in May I tried to find someone to replace me as release manager [1] for 0.90, but as nobody has stepped up to do the job as we defined it I decided that it will

Re: [Sugar-devel] What Sugar ships (was Re: [IAEP] Proposal release management)

2010-06-24 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 24.06.2010, at 15:29, David Farning wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: To that extent I proposed to the Etoys developers to follow the Sugar development cycle

Re: [Sugar-devel] API documentation.

2010-06-25 Thread David Farning
Yes, docstrings themselves will pass through the normal sugar-devel mailing list review - commit process. This is just the setup stuff. david On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 20:45, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Sugar-devel] Error messages in Sugar (was: Re: F11-0.88 unmerged patches summary)

2010-07-02 Thread David Farning
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Anish Mangal's message of Thu Jul 01 21:01:17 + 2010: Ok, how about a normal alert (no fancy colors), that doesn't get timed out, and displays an error icon beside the text. +1 Unlike

[Sugar-devel] [design] hiding icons in control panel for hardware which is not installed.

2010-07-05 Thread David Farning
I just wanted to raise this to the attention of the design team for the July 10th meeting. I would like to clarify that icons for hardware that is not present can be hidden. david On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Kandarp Kaushik kand...@seeta.in wrote: Hello, I am using Sugar on Debian and

[Sugar-devel] Dextrose mailing list.

2010-07-25 Thread David Farning
Several deployment including UY and PY are planning on updating their deployment to Dextrose this fall. In order to coordinate our work, we have created a new mailing list at http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/dextrose . This list is intend to act as coordination list for deployments working on

[Sugar-devel] Bug tracking Vs Patch review

2010-07-26 Thread David Farning
Over the past couple of months there have been a number of thread regarding patch management. In reviewing the threads in preparation for herding a number of patches through the process, I notice that there seem to be two distinct workflows that are getting interchanged. Tracking Bugs vs

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] touchpad section for Sugar Control Panel

2010-07-26 Thread David Farning
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-ui-sugar-de...@silbe.org wrote: Excerpts from Walter Bender's message of Tue May 18 20:08:58 + 2010: I've attached two patches: (1) a new touchpad section

Re: [Sugar-devel] Bug tracking Vs Patch review

2010-07-26 Thread David Farning
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:55 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:27 AM, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: patch review process and (b) loosing patches.  If a patch is a solution to a problem it is not necessary to discuss the problem

Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] sugar coating

2010-07-27 Thread David Farning
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 15:15 -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: Morally, the sugar coating is not the best thing to promote the sugar platform. BUT we can't wait for the supertux developer to sugarize their application and

Re: [Sugar-devel] getting TA into debain and universe

2010-07-31 Thread David Farning
, 2010 at 10:51 AM, David Farning dfarn...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Matt, I was wondering if you were interested in working with the Sugarteam to get TA into Debian and Ubuntu universe? david -- -Matthew Gallagher ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar

Re: [Sugar-devel] How to add an activity at activities.sugarlabs.org

2010-08-04 Thread David Farning
click on 'tools' in the upper right corner of the a.sl.o front page, then click on developer hub. david On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Hilaire Fernandes hilaire.fernan...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, my email/login is hilaire.fernan...@gmail.com and user:hilaire Hilaire Le 04/08/2010 20:40,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Remove bitmap icon handling from s-p-s

2010-08-11 Thread David Farning
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@tomeuvizoso.net wrote: On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 00:38, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: This patch gets rid of some almost-dead code in sugar-presence-service for handling bitmap avatars. The idea is that the PS is going to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Control Panel

2010-08-15 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:48 PM, u...@dev.seeta.in wrote: Hi, I was working on making some changes in sugar control panel in Ubuntu ,such that it should not require any restart even when very small change is made. So, can you tell me and help me out to figure that what changes are small

Re: [Sugar-devel] how many maintainers? (was Re: Bug tracking Vs Patch review)

2010-09-02 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 16:18, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Tue, 31-08-2010 a las 10:33 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: And we have how many full-time maintainers? We have several, no? You, erikos,

Re: [Sugar-devel] [olpc-nz] Twi translation

2010-09-02 Thread David Farning
I have forwarded this to sugar-devel. Often I have seen sysamindu handle these requests on IRC. But I believe he has returned to school. david On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Tabitha Roder tabi...@tabitha.net.nz wrote: On 31 August 2010 09:10, Brenda Wallace bre...@coffee.geek.nz wrote: My

[Sugar-devel] flood of review requests.

2010-09-05 Thread David Farning
I just wanted to give you a heads up that there will be a flood of new review requests over the next couple of weeks. The patches are being submitted by the same group of developers than have been working on Ubuntu Sugar Remix for the last couple of months. The initial packaging is mostly done.

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