<div dir="ltr">Let's try to get Sam C., who currently maintains ASLO into the loop. I think he'll have lots of good advice for us.<div><br></div><div>regards.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Jatin Dhankhar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhankhar.jatin@gmail.com" target="_blank">dhankhar.jatin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I think we need to agree on the use of IRC. If you want to communicate with members of the community, you must go where they are (#sugar). If you want a one-to-one meeting on IRC with me, I would suggest #sugar-newbies. It is normally dormant but works well and saves a log for later review. It worked well for meetings with Utkarsh Tiwari during last year's GSOC.</span></blockquote></span><div>Sure, whatever works :). What is your IRC nickname ?</div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px">There are two things that you will need to have local to the django project. First is the directory </span><a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">download.sugarlabs.<wbr>org</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> which has the Sugar activity bundles</span></blockquote></span><div>Do I need to mirror the whole setup/directory ?  <br></div><div><br></div><div>When talking about scraping you probably meant  <a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://activities.sugarlabs.<wbr>org</a> instead of <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org/" target="_blank">http://download.sugarlabs.<wbr>org/</a>, right ? <br>Also for scraping, <a href="https://scrapy.org/" target="_blank">Scrapy</a> seems to more popular than beautifulsoup ?<br><br>Also a big thanks for including Walter in the discussion :D</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>- Jatin Dhankhar</div><div> </div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 6:30 AM, Tony Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
  <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    Hi, Jatin<br>
    <br>
    I think we need to agree on the use of IRC. If you want to
    communicate with members of the community, you must go where they
    are (#sugar). If you want a one-to-one meeting on IRC with me, I
    would suggest #sugar-newbies. It is normally dormant but works well
    and saves a log for later review. It worked well for meetings with
    Utkarsh Tiwari during last year's GSOC.<br>
    <br>
    There are two things that you will need to have local to the django
    project. First is the directory <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">download.sugarlabs.org</a> which has the
    Sugar activity bundles. The second is the 'metadata' in the mysql
    db. For scraping, I would recommend BeautifulSoup (bs4). The trick
    will be to decide what data we want to capture and add to the json.<br>
    <br>
    The json fields in activities.json are ones I chose for the minimal
    system. You may want to include other information such as the number
    of downloads, which collections (should be entered as tags in a
    tag-field) and so on. One item I have referred to as flags (I marked
    some as X but don't remember what that meant, oh well). The intent
    is to record the platforms where the activity works. We also should
    provide links to the homepage, repository page, and update page
    (whatever that is). I think if you have a working scrape tool, the
    data it collects can be expanded as needed (assuming the tool runs
    in a reasonable time).<br>
    <br>
    Naturally, it would be easier if you have access to the db directly.<span class="m_6722767647619661501HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
    <br>
    Tony</font></span><div><div class="m_6722767647619661501h5"><br>
    <br>
    <div class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224moz-cite-prefix">On 04/12/2017 01:40 AM, Jatin Dhankhar
      wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div dir="ltr">
        <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px">One thing you could look at. On
            activities.sugarlabs,org, can you determine from Remora
            where the metadata is stored? I assume a db. Currently I am
            thinking to use BeautifulSoup to scrape the site to get that
            data, but it would be much easier to access the data
            directly.</span></blockquote>
        As per wiki <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Update:Remora_Server_Requirements#SVN.2C_DB_and_app_config" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Updat<wbr>e:Remora_Server_Requirements#<wbr>SVN.2C_DB_and_app_config</a> data
        is stored in mysql database. I don't have access to the
        production server where ASLO is currently running, following
        file <a href="https://github.com/sugarlabs/aslo/blob/master/aslo/db-update.sh#L9" target="_blank">https://github.com/sugarl<wbr>abs/aslo/blob/master/aslo/db-<wbr>update.sh#L9</a> confirms
        that data is stored in a mysql db. However it would be
        interesting and fun to scrape the data from live site. I would
        do that.<br>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>Thanks will poke around the code, looks to me it's a django
          app and I have to mount it on my django project, thanks :)</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px">If you are talking about IRC as a
            place to meet Sugar community members, use the freenode
            #sugar. This is probably most active from 8-17 EST (UTC-5).
            I am currently in the Philippines which is UTC+ 7. </span></blockquote>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div> Yes, tried that.  <a href="https://gitter.im" target="_blank">https://gitter.im</a> fits in
          naturally with Github (really sorry for suggesting a new mode
          of communication everyday) 😅</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>- Jatin Dhankhar</div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
        <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Tony
          Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
            <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> If you are talking
              about IRC as a place to meet Sugar community members, use
              the freenode #sugar. This is probably most active from
              8-17 EST (UTC-5). I am currently in the Philippines which
              is UTC+ 7. <br>
              <br>
              Localization of Python activities is done by Pootle, when
              implemented by the developer. The developer does something
              like the following:<br>
                      <br>
                      from gettext import gettext as _<br>
              <br>
                      self.copy.set_tooltip(_('Copy'<wbr>))<br>
              <br>
              In this way, all text displayed is taken from a po file
              based on the locale (e.g. en.po or hi.po). This is a
              simplification as the actual file is compressed: en.mo,
              hi.mo. These files are in the activity bundle. The detail
              is that when a new version is released, there is a master
              file: Paint.pot from which the local language files are
              built. This needs to be submitted to <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">translate.sugarlabs.org</a>
              which maintains a copy. However, then the localized
              version needs to be added back to the bundle. However, the
              localizations can take months for 100 languages so how
              synchronize the po directory with the activity release is
              difficult. <br>
              <br>
              The sugar3 vs sugar issue is decided. The community wants
              to move to sugar3 (gtk3). The problem is that less that
              20% of the activities have been converted.<br>
              The ones that have been converted are low hanging fruit.
              The unconverted ones may require intensive work (gimp
              which developed gtk originally has not made the
              conversion). <br>
              <br>
              One thing you could look at. On activities.sugarlabs,org,
              can you determine from Remora where the metadata is
              stored? I assume a db. Currently I am thinking to use
              BeautifulSoup to scrape the site to get that data, but it
              would be much easier to access the data directly.<br>
              <br>
              Yesterday afternoon, the ISP restored service. Last time
              it died after two days, but I am keeping my fingers
              crossed. I am attaching the django stuff.<span class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
                  <br>
                  Tony</font></span>
              <div>
                <div class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224h5"><br>
                  <br>
                  <div class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224m_5089198513458135942moz-cite-prefix">On
                    04/11/2017 01:36 AM, Jatin Dhankhar wrote:<br>
                  </div>
                  <blockquote type="cite">
                    <div dir="ltr">
                      <div>Hi Tony,</div>
                      <div> </div>
                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Normally, we use </span><a class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224m_5089198513458135942moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://chat.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"></a><a class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://chat.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://chat.sugarlabs.org</a><span style="font-size:12.8px"> <wbr>or on freenode:
                          sugar-meeting or sugar-newbies. These are
                          logged sites so that there is a record. The
                          second is more appropriate since sugar-meeting
                          is used for SLOB meetings and the like. The
                          real problem with IRC is time zones. Email has
                          the advantage that either party can send or
                          receive at any time. Last year with a GSOC
                          mentee we used sugar-newbies by arranging a
                          specific meeting time in advance. </span></blockquote>
                      <div>Yes, that is correct, main issue in
                        communication barrier is due to timezone issues.
                        Since most of the people are familiar and are
                        available on IRC, it's seems to be the primary
                        channel of communication along with mailing
                        lists and email. But since you said we can use
                        anything else, giving Slack a try won't hurt (if
                        issue is about not using closed source software
                        then IRC is fine, or we can try <a href="https://about.mattermost.com/" target="_blank">Mattermost</a>).</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px"> Another part of the
                          process is how to update '</span><a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">translate.sugarlabs.org</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">' with the
                          corresponding POT file to enable localization.
                          We can get help from Chris Leonard on this. </span></blockquote>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>I am not aware on how localization works. Do
                        we need to download relevant files and bundle
                        them with the acitvity before making it
                        available on ASLO ? </div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px">I have my Django
                          version available - but the internet problems
                          here are still unresolved. The technician is
                          supposed to make another visit today to see
                          what is wrong with our connection. Let me know
                          if and when you think this will be useful to
                          you.</span></blockquote>
                      <div>Let me know when your connection is stable
                        and I would start.</div>
                      <div> What  are the things you need me to do in
                        the meantime ? </div>
                      <div><br style="font-size:12.8px">
                        <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px">One open issue is
                            sugar3 vs sugar. Currently two versions of
                            Sugar are released. The sugar version
                            supports gtk while sugar3 supports gtk3.
                            Unfortunately, gtk3 was developed to be
                            totally incompatible with gtk. For example,
                            incorporation of one gtk3 feature requires
                            that all direct and indirect references to
                            gtk be removed or the activity will throw an
                            exception. Several of the gtk3 conversions
                            failed to meet this test and so fail. The
                            issue is whether curated activities be
                            limited to ones converted to gtk3. The
                            positive is that Sugar could revert to
                            releasing and maintaining only a single
                            version. The downside is that 100 or more
                            activities will no longer be available.
                            Specifically, in our implementation of ASLO,
                            we need to show which versions of an
                            activity work on which versions of Sugar
                            (e.g. i86, arm, amd64, sugar or sugar3, and
                            so on). We also need to show which ones
                            support localization. There are many English
                            activities and many Spanish activities that
                            make no provision for localization. Luckily
                            there are many that have no language
                            component. However, for many of these, some
                            kind of help is needed to convey the way the
                            activity works. </span></blockquote>
                        <div><br>
                        </div>
                        <div><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3e3q8n/is_there_a_technical_reason_why_gtk3_is_better/" target="_blank">Some people believe GTK3 is
                            slightly better</a> and I think GTK3 will
                          stay but that should be asked in community and
                          voted upon and taking in considerations cost
                          of development and porting, only a discussion
                          will help in this one.</div>
                      </div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px">You are wading into a
                          deep and vast body of water!</span></blockquote>
                      <div>As long as I have something to hold onto, I
                        will not drown 😅 </div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>Thanks,</div>
                      <div>Jatin Dhankhar</div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                      <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at
                        9:11 AM, Tony Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank"></a><a class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span>
                        wrote:<br>
                        <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
                          <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi,
                            Jatin<br>
                            <br>
                            Normally, we use <a class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224m_5089198513458135942m_2297804042014618975moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://chat.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://chat.sugarlabs.org</a>
                            or on freenode: sugar-meeting or
                            sugar-newbies. These are logged sites so
                            that there is a record. The second is more
                            appropriate since sugar-meeting is used for
                            SLOB meetings and the like. The real problem
                            with IRC is time zones. Email has the
                            advantage that either party can send or
                            receive at any time. Last year with a GSOC
                            mentee we used sugar-newbies by arranging a
                            specific meeting time in advance. <br>
                            <br>
                            I haven't heard from Walter, but my
                            preference would be to use the Sugarlabs
                            server since the content is largely already
                            there and it would be easier to make it the
                            official site if that were decided. So in
                            the short run, I think you should do
                            whatever is best for your own development
                            process. <br>
                            <br>
                            I am not sure how CI fits into this. If the
                            activity development is done on GitHub, then
                            the deployment model is to run setup.py to
                            create an xo bundle and then copy that
                            bundle to the appropriate location in the <a href="http://download.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">download.sugarlabs.org</a>
                            tree. Assuming the update results from a PR,
                            the deployer would need to update the
                            activity information on ASLO appropriately.
                            However, that process depends on where that
                            data (metadata) is stored. Another part of
                            the process is how to update '<a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">translate.sugarlabs.org</a>'
                            with the corresponding POT file to enable
                            localization. We can get help from Chris
                            Leonard on this. <br>
                            <br>
                            I have my Django version available - but the
                            internet problems here are still unresolved.
                            The technician is supposed to make another
                            visit today to see what is wrong with our
                            connection. Let me know if and when you
                            think this will be useful to you.<br>
                            <br>
                            I have now tested most of the activities
                            (~400). I was optimistic in the number that
                            work out of the box. However, a part of this
                            is running them in the Ubuntu version of
                            Sugar (amd64). There are many activities
                            which launch object code (mostly c) which is
                            dependent on the architecture. I am now
                            trying to repeat the tests on an XO-1.75.
                            One issue on Ubuntu is that many activities
                            assume a 1200x900 screen and so on a
                            1024X768 screen overflow. This makes some of
                            the games unusable since part of the
                            controls are off the screen. Because of the
                            internet problems, the untested activities
                            tend to be new ones since I was using my
                            local repository which is a snapshot taken
                            several months ago. The other group are the
                            GCompris activities (about 70). <br>
                            <br>
                            My intent is to build a 'curated' repository
                            of activities known to work and be usable on
                            the XO and on Ubuntu (or such other platform
                            that Sugar may choose to support). Most of
                            the currently not work activities have
                            software dependencies no longer included in
                            the current Sugar release. So the curated
                            library will grow as activities are repaired
                            over time. <br>
                            <br>
                            One open issue is sugar3 vs sugar. Currently
                            two versions of Sugar are released. The
                            sugar version supports gtk while sugar3
                            supports gtk3. Unfortunately, gtk3 was
                            developed to be totally incompatible with
                            gtk. For example, incorporation of one gtk3
                            feature requires that all direct and
                            indirect references to gtk be removed or the
                            activity will throw an exception. Several of
                            the gtk3 conversions failed to meet this
                            test and so fail. The issue is whether
                            curated activities be limited to ones
                            converted to gtk3. The positive is that
                            Sugar could revert to releasing and
                            maintaining only a single version. The
                            downside is that 100 or more activities will
                            no longer be available. Specifically, in our
                            implementation of ASLO, we need to show
                            which versions of an activity work on which
                            versions of Sugar (e.g. i86, arm, amd64,
                            sugar or sugar3, and so on). We also need to
                            show which ones support localization. There
                            are many English activities and many Spanish
                            activities that make no provision for
                            localization. Luckily there are many that
                            have no language component. However, for
                            many of these, some kind of help is needed
                            to convey the way the activity works. <br>
                            <br>
                            You are wading into a deep and vast body of
                            water!<span class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224m_5089198513458135942HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
                                <br>
                                Tony</font></span>
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                                <br>
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                                  04/10/2017 12:00 AM, Jatin Dhankhar
                                  wrote:<br>
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                                  <div dir="ltr">Hi,
                                    <div>Sorry for the delay. I went
                                      through the polls tutorials and I
                                      think I am getting hang of Django.
                                      I have one query that is out of
                                      context, what is your IRC setup ?
                                      IRC doesn't allow message to be
                                      delivered or stored once either
                                      party is offline, people login
                                      through a external server for
                                      IRC's to maintain their
                                      availability in a channel. May I
                                      suggest something like Slack or
                                      Flock for communication. IRC is
                                      good for quick and fast connection
                                      but Slack and alternatives allow
                                      easy communication. (Just a
                                      suggestion, though)</div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>Should I  deploy the same polls
                                      app on DigitalOcean along with CI
                                      pipeline and branching model in
                                      the meantime with code hosted on
                                      Github ?</div>
                                    <div><br>
                                    </div>
                                    <div>Thanks,</div>
                                    <div>Jatin Dhankhar</div>
                                  </div>
                                  <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                                    <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr
                                      8, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Tony Anderson
                                      <span dir="ltr"><<a class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224m_5089198513458135942moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank"></a><a class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span>
                                      wrote:<br>
                                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
                                        <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi, Jatin<br>
                                          <br>
                                          I abbreviated this thread
                                          because I am getting
                                          complaints from the list that
                                          the emails are too long.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          Yesterday, I was able to
                                          complete a set of 25
                                          activities to use as a test
                                          base. The Django app now has
                                          two views. First is a display
                                          of all of the <br>
                                          activities with the icon and
                                          name. A link for each opens
                                          the full activity page. The
                                          data for the views is in a
                                          file which is a list of jsons,
                                          one json per line. <br>
                                          The  views.py reads this file
                                          and builds the view from the
                                          jsons. <br>
                                          <br>
                                          So the app consists of:<br>
                                              urls.py<br>
                                              views.py<br>
                                              templates/<br>
                                                  base.html<br>
                                                  list.html<br>
                                                  activity.html<br>
                                          <br>
                                          with the data:<br>
                                                 
                                          fixtures/activities.json <br>
                                                  icons/<br>
                                                  xo/<br>
                                          <br>
                                          The icons directory has the
                                          activity icons (*.svg)<br>
                                          The xo directory has the
                                          activity bundles (*.xo)<br>
                                          <br>
                                          Meanwhile, I am having more
                                          troubles with the ISP (a new
                                          one). When that gets resolved,
                                          I should be able to send the
                                          above to you.<br>
                                          <br>
                                          I have also mentioned our
                                          dialog to Walter Bender
                                          suggesting that you could set
                                          up your working model as <a href="http://activities3.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">activities3.sugarlabs.org</a>.
                                          This would give you a
                                          permanent place to do the
                                          development and make your
                                          project visible to the
                                          community so that we can
                                          obtain feedback. I aslo
                                          suggested that the project
                                          repository could be placed on
                                          GitHub so that again the
                                          community can comment and
                                          potentially contribute.<span class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224m_5089198513458135942m_2297804042014618975HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
                                              <br>
                                              Tony</font></span><span><br>
                                            <div class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224m_5089198513458135942m_2297804042014618975m_-2022019510050925157moz-cite-prefix">On


                                              04/07/2017 12:23 AM, Jatin
                                              Dhankhar wrote:<br>
                                            </div>
                                            <blockquote type="cite">
                                              <div dir="ltr">Hi,
                                                <div><br>
                                                </div>
                                                <div>I am setting up
                                                  Django now and going
                                                  through some
                                                  tutorials. I will
                                                  setup the code with a
                                                  very basic and
                                                  barebones version of
                                                  what we want to
                                                  achieve and put it in
                                                  a private repo. We can
                                                  even host it online,
                                                  since I have some
                                                  DigitalOcean credit
                                                  left. Will keep you
                                                  posted. </div>
                                                <div><br>
                                                </div>
                                                <div>Thanks.</div>
                                                <div>Jatin Dhankhar</div>
                                              </div>
                                              <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
                                                <div class="gmail_quote">On
                                                  Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at
                                                  7:11 AM, Tony Anderson
                                                  <span dir="ltr"><<a class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224m_5089198513458135942moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank"></a><a class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>></span>
                                                  wrote:<br>
                                                  <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
                                                    <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
                                                      Hi, Jatin<br>
                                                      <br>
                                                      In setting up
                                                      Django, I think
                                                      you will do it on
                                                      your computer not
                                                      on a separate
                                                      server. Django
                                                      handles that
                                                      through its own
                                                      server and has
                                                      sgqlite as a
                                                      database built-in.
                                                      A good first start
                                                      would be to set up
                                                      the tutorial app (<a class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224m_5089198513458135942moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.djangoproject.com" target="_blank"></a><a class="m_6722767647619661501m_-7011079753232270224moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.djangoproject.com" target="_blank">https://www.djangoproject.com</a><wbr>/).




                                                      Essentially you
                                                      will need to
                                                      install django and
                                                      then set up the
                                                      tutorial app
                                                      'poll'. Working
                                                      through this
                                                      tutorial will help
                                                      a lot later on.
                                                      The key point is
                                                      that after initial
                                                      setup, there are
                                                      three important
                                                      elements: url.py
                                                      which defines the
                                                      urls to access the
                                                      application,
                                                      views.py which is
                                                      the python code
                                                      that responds to a
                                                      request by
                                                      accessing the db
                                                      and delivering the
                                                      relevant
                                                      information to a
                                                      template. The
                                                      template is an
                                                      html file with
                                                      variables of the
                                                      form {{ <a href="http://activity.name" target="_blank">activity.name</a> }}
                                                      transferring
                                                      information from
                                                      the view to the
                                                      template.<br>
                                                      <br>
                                                      What I have is an
                                                      application: aslo.
                                                      Once you have
                                                      Django installed
                                                      and have run the
                                                      tutorial app
                                                      through Django's
                                                      server, you'll be
                                                      ready.
                                                      Essentially, you
                                                      will only need to
                                                      add aslo as a
                                                      second app in the
                                                      settings. One
                                                      possible confusion
                                                      is that DJango
                                                      lives in a project
                                                      - essentially a
                                                      directory
                                                      containing its
                                                      manage.py admin
                                                      interface. In the
                                                      directory is
                                                      another directory
                                                      of the same name
                                                      with the
                                                      settings.py and
                                                      url.py. The poll
                                                      app is a directory
                                                      in the top-level
                                                      alongside the
                                                      inner directory
                                                      with the project
                                                      name.<br>
                                                      <br>
                                                      For example, my
                                                      project is
                                                      schoolsite. So my
                                                      setup looks like:<br>
                                                      <br>
/library/schoolsite/schoolsite<br>
/library/schoolsite/aslo<br>
                                                      <br>
                                                      Meanwhile my code
                                                      links directly to
                                                      an activity page
                                                      with no index.
                                                      I'll add an index
                                                      so the essential
                                                      structure will be
                                                      there. I'll also
                                                      include the
                                                      'fixtures' to set
                                                      up a 25 activity
                                                      capability.
                                                      Fixtures are csv
                                                      files from which
                                                      the database
                                                      (metadata) can be
                                                      loaded. <br>
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                                                          Tony</font></span></div>
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