[IAEP] activities.sugarlabs.org

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, David Farning wrote:

> One of my main goals in not to fork amo.  There is really no way we
> could keep the code fresh with our current man power.  Instead I am
> hoping to push some patches that modularize how amo handles applications
> and addontypes upstream.  Then we can just plop in our own application
> and addontype code.

Brilliant.

>> Are you working with anyone at AMO on this problem?  I'm guessing you know
>> some people, but if you don't, I can comb through my notes and maybe put
>> you in touch with some other people.
>
> I have been slowly introducing myself via irc and bugzilla.  Hopefully,
> they will find the patches useful which will help build sugar lab's
> reputation as contributors.  The amo staff is pretty busy right now
> cleaning up after the 3.0 release:)
>
>> Well done on tackling this problem, David, and good luck.  Maybe I'll jump
>> in and help at some point... or maybe I'll just cheer wildly from the
>> sidelines.  :)
>
> I would love the help. I'll be putting the code on
> https://www.develer.com/gitweb/pub?p=users/dfarning/w.s.o.git;a=summary
> as soon as I figure out how to push the necessary branches.  amo is
> stored in svn so there is a git-svn level which I have not used before.

Ironically, this is the *exact* point at which I got pulled away -- at the 
very point when I was trying to set up git to get others to help.  :)

Nice to see that you've been able to do in a week what took me a month. 
"The force is strong in this one," as my father used to say.

--g