I wanted to take the time to alert everyone to the fact that a new section of the wiki exists for the purposes of providing both visual and functional specifications for activities, as well as a place for aggregating useful information and discussions surrounding each one. The main entry point is wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities. I'd like to highlight a few aspects of the activity specific pages:
1) Myself and the team at Pentagram are busy creating visual mockups which conform to the Sugar style as specified in the HIG for all base activities. Though not final, these can act as a working target specification for developers. So far we have basic mockups for Read, Write, Chat, Video Chat, Draw, and Browse. Others will follow in coming weeks. 2) The visual elements are backed by descriptions of general interaction goals for the activities, as well as specific goals regarding their collaborative aspects. While the visual designs and descriptions provide a good overview, the design team is happy to discuss details, as it's hard to capture them all in these forms. 3) Each page contains a section for development. This section should include up to date links to the source, RPMs, and other resources that relate to the development effort. In addition, a link in this section leads to a version history page for the activity. We kindly request that developers keep a detailed version history in this location so that we can track the design and implementation together over time. 4) The discussion pages for each activity contain a skeleton, providing spaces to request features (and comment on those already listed in the goals) and to discuss implementation. Hopefully this will serve as a useful space for aligning the ideas of the design and development teams. Side note: I haven't altered the wiki pages for activities which already existed. However, it may prove helpful to transform them a bit, at least adding most of the sections listed above if not reorganizing, in order to have a convenient and consistent way to design, discuss, and track progress of activities going forward. Thanks! - Eben _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar
