[IAEP] activities.sugarlabs.org

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Just in case someone is interested - the code running gnomefiles
(http://gnomefiles.org/) might be useful. It is not open, but there's
an interesting discussion on the gnome marketing mailing list on that.
You can follow the discussion at
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/marketing-list/2008-June/msg00008.html

Thanks,
Sayamindu


On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:45 PM, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:44 +0545, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>> David Farning wrote:
>> > It looks like my top priority will be converting
>> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ to work with sugar and it's
>> > ecosystem of activities.
>>
>> Hello from Kathmandu!  You will have all my support on it.
>> Ideally, I'd like activity authors to be able to host their projects
>> on sugarlabs.org and manage it easily and autonomously.
>>
>> We could evaluate one of the many forks of Sourceforge, or something
>> lighter weight.
>>
> Addons.mozilla.org also known as amo looks pretty promising as a 'one
> stop' location for activities.
>
> In terms of work flow the process for a developer is:
> 1. Activity authors register their activity with amo.
> 2. Author uploads latest release into sandbox.
> 3. Reviewer verifies new upload works correctly and publishes the
> upload.
> 4. Return to 2.
>
> All of this happens through a nice set of web interfaces.
>
> We have all seen how amo works from an end users perspective.
>
> cons:
>        The amo code is pretty dense.
>        The amo code is quite hard to read because of all the efforts made
> towards serving addons efficiently.
>
> pros:
>        From amo's point of view the work flow between mozilla updates and
> sugar activities is exactly the same.
>        Very fast, secure and scalable.
>
> Progress:
>  Done:
>        Got amo running on home serve.
>        Studied work flow from end user and developer point of view.
>  In progress:
>        Studying database schema.
>
>
> Enjoy your trip!
> Thanks
> Dfarning
>
>
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