[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] 0.88 Schedule Adjustment

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, in order to reflect the current 0.88 Feature Situation the 0.88 schedule [1] has been adjusted. Basically the API/ABI, Feature, UI and String Freeze have been delayed by one week. Features are accepted one more week, too. The Hard code Freeze stays the 15th of March and the final release

[Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] 0.88 Feature acceptance ends the 18th of January 2010

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, acceptance of the Features for the Sucrose 0.88 Release ends the 18th of January 2010 [1]. To propose a Feature you need to follow the Features/Policy [2]. The Feature Policy describes the steps a Feature owner needs to fulfill to propose the Feature to be part of a Sucrose release cycle

Re: [Sugar-devel] Uploading Activities with Firefox?

2010-01-12 Thread Aleksey Lim
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 09:33:44PM -0500, Art Hunkins wrote: Since I've had no success uploading activities with IE on Windows, I thought I'd try Firefox. In IE, I was able to log in to my Developer Hub just fine. With Firefox (still in WindowsXP), I can't get to the Developer Hub, or

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-toolkit-0.87.3

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Schampijer
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit/sugar-toolkit-0.87.3.tar.bz2 == News == Sascha Silbe: locate rainbow using PATH instead of hardcoding the location (#1436) Sascha Silbe: don't use rainbow if it has been uninstalled, but the config file remains

Re: [Sugar-devel] Exporting sounds and images from Etoys projects

2010-01-12 Thread Bryan Berry
tks Bert, this is extremely helpful On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.dewrote: On 10.01.2010, at 02:51, Bryan Berry wrote: Bert, we did have Squeak programmers but they all emigrated and are difficult to get in touch with. Oh, didn't know they were all

Re: [Sugar-devel] Several chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

2010-01-12 Thread Jim Simmons
As many of you know, I've been working on a handbook for creating Sugar Activities and I have added another couple of chapters to it (on Pootle and distributing your Activity) and made numerous corrections to earlier chapters, many of them based on suggestions you made. Stuff still to do: Text To

Re: [Sugar-devel] Several chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

2010-01-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.01.2010, at 16:43, Jim Simmons wrote: http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.01.11-23.05.32.pdf Very nice, Jim! It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Sugar activity should be written in Python. However, there are other means to go about that, and

Re: [Sugar-devel] Please tag tarball releases in git repository, e.g. Sugar 0.87.2

2010-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Ping! On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 13:14, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 14:04, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Hi, Please do remember to tag tarball releases in Git repositories.  Those tags are helpful for (some) distributors - like me :-) Oops, was a

[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] sugar-0.87.3

2010-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
== Source == http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.87.3.tar.bz2 == News == * shell breaks if system bus cannot be accessed #1403 * sugar-emulator: kill X server on exit #1440 * move ~/.i18n parsing from sugar-emulator to sugar #1441 * can't create ad-hoc network

Re: [Sugar-devel] Several chapters of Make Your Own Sugar Activities! ready for review, feedback

2010-01-12 Thread Jim Simmons
Bert, That is the kind of feedback I was hoping to get, actually. I figured if I make a definite statement like Every Activity needs at least some Python someone who knows better would correct me. I will make a more qualified statement in my next revision. I am hoping that the book will be

Re: [Sugar-devel] Please tag tarball releases in git repository, e.g. Sugar 0.87.2

2010-01-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:51:32PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Ping! Was that targeted me? If so, why? Sugar 0.87.2 was packaged for Debian on january 1st and entered testing earlier today. Status for that specific package is here: http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sugar-0.88.html Status

[Sugar-devel] GCompris was Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2010-01-07

2010-01-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
=== In the community === 2. Bruno Coudoin announced the release of GCompris Version 9.0. Aleksey is already working on making sure that it is properly packaged for Sugar and available on http://activities.sugarlabs.org. Congrats to the GComris team! I have found GCompris activities a

Re: [Sugar-devel] Please tag tarball releases in git repository, e.g. Sugar 0.87.2

2010-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 18:35, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:51:32PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Ping! Was that targeted me? If so, why? Sorry, this as targeted to Simon about committing the patch for sugar-tools. Regards, Tomeu Sugar 0.87.2 was packaged

Re: [Sugar-devel] Please tag tarball releases in git repository, e.g. Sugar 0.87.2

2010-01-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 07:46:11PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 18:35, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:51:32PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Ping! Was that targeted me? If so, why? Sorry, this as targeted to Simon about committing the

Re: [Sugar-devel] GCompris was Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2010-01-07

2010-01-12 Thread Bruno Coudoin
Le mardi 12 janvier 2010 à 13:24 -0500, Caroline Meeks a écrit : Did the upgrade touch this part of the project? Does anyone know if anyone is thinking about how to make this functionality available to teachers using Sugar? Yes but nothing important. It has been improved so that there is

Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-12 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 11:36 -0500, Caroline Meeks wrote: I second what Jim says. I've had a lot of trouble booting from the boot helper with Blueberry. Bernie looked at this at the GPA and found a bug in Fedora related to video drivers. Bernie, was this bug reported? I think I may have

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] GCompris was Re: Sugar Digest 2010-01-07

2010-01-12 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 19:24, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: === In the community === 2. Bruno Coudoin announced the release of GCompris Version 9.0. Aleksey is already working on making sure that it is properly packaged for Sugar and available on

Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-12 Thread Walter Bender
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 11:36 -0500, Caroline Meeks wrote: I second what Jim says. I've had a lot of trouble booting from the boot helper with Blueberry. Bernie looked at this at the GPA and found a bug in Fedora

Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-12 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 15:16 -0500, Walter Bender wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 11:36 -0500, Caroline Meeks wrote: I second what Jim says. I've had a lot of trouble booting from the boot helper with Blueberry.

Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-12 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 15:27 -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Caroline, I believe you could install it on SoaS by doing: sudo yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xorg-x11-drv-ati It should drag in a few more testing packages, that's to be expected. Good luck! I got more useful tips from

Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-12 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 16:36 -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote: Installing an updated kernel on SoaS may be a little hard. Oops: airlied bernie: the new kernel might be a better bet also airlied bernie: from koji for F12 Well, maybe not too hard after all. Try: sudo yum

[Sugar-devel] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-12 Thread Jeff Elkner
Hi All, II have two personality quirks that often get in my way: I have a great deal of trouble multitasking, and I would loose my head were it not attached to my shoulders. What I need from a computer are tools that complement my limitations, and help me be more productive. irc can be such a

Re: [Sugar-devel] SOAS 2 problems

2010-01-12 Thread David Leeming
Thanks everybody for all this feedback. I can't comment for a day or two due to other priorities but will do so then. David Leeming Solomon Islands Rural Link http://www.leeming-consulting.com -Original Message- From: Walter Bender [mailto:walter.ben...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 13

[Sugar-devel] FileShare Activity 7

2010-01-12 Thread Justin Lewis
FileShare is an activity that allows the user to share files from their journal to other xo's or to a central server. Activity Homepage: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4266 Sugar Platform: 0.82 - 0.86 Release notes: Improved gui response. * Gui is now dispatching threads for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-12 Thread Tim McNamara
2010/1/13 Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net It would like to make most of these conversations available to the rest of the community, but I don't have the time to log and publish them myself. +1 for a log bot Is there a good reason why we don't auto log the channel? jeff elkner

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-12 Thread Luke Faraone
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 17:54, Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net wrote: Is there a good reason why we don't auto log the channel? We've talked this subject practically to death. See http://www.mail-archive.com/i...@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg06656.html. (hint: the thread you want is

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Why #sugar should be logged - a plug for transparency and ease of use.

2010-01-12 Thread Dave Bauer
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Jeff Elkner j...@elkner.net wrote: Hi All, II have two personality quirks that often get in my way: I have a great deal of trouble multitasking, and I would loose my head were it not attached to my shoulders. What I need from a computer are tools that

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] GCompris was Re: Sugar Digest 2010-01-07

2010-01-12 Thread Caroline Meeks
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 19:24, Caroline Meeks solutiongr...@gmail.com wrote: === In the community === 2. Bruno Coudoin announced the release of GCompris Version 9.0. Aleksey is already working on making sure that