On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 09:29:50AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: > I do have access to the wiki. However, the relevant pages are linked > from the www.sugarlabs.org. I don't have access to that page.
You do have access https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs > I believe the link to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Downloads should > be at the top of the www.sugarlabs.org, e.g. next to social help. > > While I have permission 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. No, use a pull-request. See also the identified issues with the site; https://github.com/sugarlabs/www-sugarlabs/issues > 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 progress! I appreciate your loyalty to > >>your employer. > >> > >>Thanks for clarifying that when I installed Sugar (sucrose) on > >>Ubuntu I was installing the Debian package. > >> > >>My problem with SOAS is this page; > >>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation. It > >>starts out by requiring the user to install Fedora to set up the > >>livecd tools. > >(a) yes, it's not the best guidance, > > > >(b) it's a Wiki, so you are also responsible for editing it. > > > >>The pages for Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora are much improved. The > >>Debian on RPi3 needs an update. > >Oh, wow, thanks, I wasn't aware of Debian_on_rpi3; what a useless page > >of links. I've replaced it with a redirect to the current Raspbian > >page. > > > >But I'm not your Wiki editing slave, get working on it yourself. > > > >>Visitors to the sugarlabs site would > >>appreciate a succinct and current list of supported software (as you > >>do at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Releases), the 'Supported Systems' > >>page was last touched in 2012. > >No, you've missed that it includes the Supported distributions page, > >which is updated regularly. MediaWiki software has shown you the 2012 > >change date of the outer page, not the inner page. > > > >You also missed that it shows Ubuntu 17.04 and Sugar 0.110, both of > >which are post-2012. > > > >>I find dd to be a simple, no fuss, no muss way to make the usb > >>stick. > >dd is also a quick way to destroy data on a disk. > > > >>However, the web page could point to gui tools. > >If you mean the > >http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation page, yes. > > > >Fedora SoaS Desktop links to documentation from Fedora; > >https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Burning_ISO_images_to_disc/ > >and does point to good tool choices, though it was last updated for > >Fedora 20 and is dated 2013. > > > >Sugar Labs Wiki documentation is more ad-hoc, a mix of old and new, > >from mainly the perspective of Thomas and Frederick; and recommends a > >different method to Fedora. It was updated in late 2016. > > > >>The real goal is to promote the idea that Sugar is available to > >>non-technical visitors for them to install on their own computer. > >I'm looking forward to Sugar being available to non-technical visitors > >for them to install on their own computer ... but I haven't seen that > >happen yet. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
