[Its.an.education.project] Cleaning up the activities page
Marco Pesenti Gritti
mpgritti at gmail.com
Tue May 6 18:54:10 CEST 2008
I like these ideas very much... I'm not sure about the separation of
sugar core and activities though. I tend to think we should have a
unified release process for them (at least on the short time) and
having two different trac would probably make it harder.
Marco
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
> Greg speaketh wisdom. The best tool/system/procedure/infrastructure is
> one that people actually use.
>
> I've heard that strawman artifact-examples to play with helps groups
> move forward (also known as "I can has working code?") so here's an
> experimental attempt to do so - please hold me to this, and holler if I
> don't report back in 24 hours.
>
> (the below is culled from an IRC convo with Bernie)
>
> what would you think of something like http://trac-hacks.org/ but for
> .xo and .xol files only? (In other words, Activity and library bundle
> development, compartmentalized and separated from "core" Sugar code,
> user docs, etc. - a developers' center.) Let's call this xo-get.org for
> now, in homage to Chris Hager's awesome Activity.
>
> The current structure for Activity development, as best as I can tell,
> is "code in git, (sometimes) tickets in trac, (sometimes) user/teacher
> docs on the wiki, (rarely) devel documentation on the wiki." This is
> scattered, unclear, involves lots of manual work... it doesn't seem to
> be functioning well, or to be a system that people enjoy using.
>
> xo-get.org would have "code in git, (always) tickets in trac, (always)
> devel documentation in trac, (hopefully) user docs on the wiki." The
> goal would be to make life as easy for Activity developers as humanly
> possible. Some helpful features...
>
> (1) more-easily-sortable "Activities" page - "show me all bundles that
> work with Sugar's current version," etc.
>
> (2) for both people (users) and code (things like the xo-get activity),
> it will hopefully be easier to find/pull/script/contribute-to things in
> a more structured resource.
>
> (3) the grassroots-people structure might find it easier to tweak this
> tech-tool structure for Activity development facilitation, since the
> manual work will never end (when something's marked "please test!"
> someone still has to go find testers, someone has to test it...) Tools
> that are pleasant to tweak tend to become tools that are pleasant to
> use, which tend to become tools that are used.
>
> (4) We'll find out more when we play around with it, I'm sure.
>
> Right now this is a lot of hypothetical "wouldn't this be nice" talk, so
> to turn this into action... I'm going to try to set up a strawman/demo
> trac-hacks like installation late tonight after I get back from 1cc.
> Advance warning: it will be slow as molasses because my personal
> webspace is on a shared server. I'll fill it with a few sample uploads
> of Activity code to give people an idea of what could be done with it.
>
> So here's what I'll ask this list to hold me to: within 24 hours, I will
> holler out the URL to the strawman on this list so people can play
> around and decide whether to tweak/keep/toss, or what might work better.
> If the general consensus is that this isn't useful but we have a good
> discussion on why it isn't and what might be, I'll be ecstatic, because
> we'll be moving forward and getting more concreteness into the mix.
>
> If you want to help/keep-company, I'll be on #sugar late tonight
> (probably starting ~9ish, EST) chugging away. Help is always welcome;
> I'm concerned about the job getting done, I don't care who does it - if
> someone else wants to do 100% of it, yay! But even if not, I'll be here.
> Thoughts and comments, feedback, etc. super-welcome.
>
> Off to put my money where my mouth is,
>
> --Mel (who's been lurking for a while; I'm usually shy to speak up on
> lists, but Bernie's been trying to convince me to get over that. ;-)
>
>
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