[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Call for Testers (New Snapshot!)
Sebastian Dziallas
sebastian at when.com
Sat Apr 4 17:58:01 EDT 2009
Hi Caroline,
thanks for giving this a try! I added some comments below...
By the way, would it be okay for you to get a final image by April 7th
or do you need one earlier?
Caroline Meeks wrote:
> Results
>
> Boots up fine. Love the sugar branding!
Heh. :)
> There are a lot fewer activities in the ring then SoaS1
Well, that seems to be a matter of configuration by the package
maintainers. We're now pulling the activities directly from a.sl.o,
which means that those activities apparently don't get automatically
fav'ed. Anyway, I guess we need to ping the maintainers on this?
> Memorize, Speak, Moon, Turtle, Jigsaw puzzel, joke book, typing turtle,
> cartoon builder, Finance, Freecell
> - Work great. Sound works too
Hey, cool! Good to hear.
> Browse
> - "School" gives me an error. I see why a school would want this link
> on their system but it doesn't make sense to me to put out a page with a
> broken link.
> - The arrow flashes annoyingly when web pages are loading on my X40
>
> eToys
> - The screen flashes black a few times while it is loading its a bit
> disconcerting
>
> Maze
> - The icon seems a bit bit in the circle
>
> Calculator
> - The font size and the curser seem a bit weird together. I took a picture.
>
> Pippy
> -The Run, Stop and Clear buttons are a bit cut off. I took a picture
>
> Read
> - Why have the read activity with nothing to read?
Yeah, we should probably include something here...
> Story Builder,
>
> I haven't seen it before. Very cool! The characters seem a bit
> pixilated, are they supposed to look like that?
>
> flipsticks
> Either I am using it wrong or saving a firgure by clicking the bottom
> circle does not work.
>
>
> Bounce, Colors
>
> did not start
If we can't get those ready in time, they will be taken out for the release!
> IRC,
> Seemed to connect, and I got a message that my laptop SoaS2 had entered
> the room but I couldn't actually see what people said in the room or see
> what my laptop said while I was in the room.
Oh, okay... I had it working; strange.
> Yay! This is good! Its good enough for FOSSVT except for not having a
> working collaboration server, but that's a different thread :)
>
> *Here is my wish list.*
>
> Add to favorites Ring:
> Slider Puzzle, Jigsaw Puzzle, Story Builder, Typing Turtle, Cartoon
> Builder,
>
> Take out of the favorites Ring
> Log, Terminal. Read
>
> Add a book or two for Read then add Read back to the favorites ring
> Add Scratch and let me test it. It doesn't seem to be on the Activities
> Portal yet.
>
> Fix:
> Colors, Flipsticks and IRC and add the to the favorites Ring
>
>
> I'm open to dissenting opinions here, this is just my current
> impressions of what would make a good demo stick.
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com
> <mailto:sebastian at when.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> the SoaS team has another snapshot ready for testing - it's
> absolutely important that it get's tested as much as possible for
> our release!
>
> You can grab it from here:
>
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/Soas2-200904031934.iso
>
> If you're going to put it on a USB key or a SD card under Linux,
> please make sure to use exactly this version of livecd-iso-to-disk,
> as you might encounter issues with other versions, which are around:
>
> http://shell.sugarlabs.org/sdz/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh
>
> There's also a new appliance snapshot available, but testing should
> really focus on the .iso file for now:
>
> http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas2-20090403.tar.gz
>
> What has changed?
>
> * We're now supporting locales! You can change it in the control panel.
> * You'll notice our funky boot screen - no hotdog anymore... ;)
> * Browse has been updated - including skin and default page changes!
>
> Again, please give it a try. And if you think that we should include
> this or that specific activity, make sure to come up with it!
>
> So long, thanks and happy testing,
> --Your SoaS Team
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