[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Share sugar objects on a standalone server

[Aleksey Lim]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:41:31AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:17:13AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > One of lacks that sugar environment has is simple way to share sugar
> > objects for broad audience i.e. like scratch community has[1]
> > (thanks to davidmorris form #sugar).
> > 
> > So, I've created [2]. Original idea was having highly integrated sharing
> > features into sugar shell but looks like we can do simple things first
> > and even utilize only Browse for browsing/download/upload sugar objects.
> > 
> > The problem is - what web engine we should use.
> > 
> > * Utilize AMO[3] engine which is used in activities.sugarlabs.org
> >   in that case we can create something like library.sugarlabs.org to not
> 
> Pro:
> * we do not split users behaviour, they need the same experience
>   that ASLO requires
> * one common branding for activities and objects sites
> * AMO has sufficient(imo) functionality - reviews, ranking, collections
>   and thumbs mode
>   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:2/cat:all?sort=popular
> * we hack AMO code anyway - its not a problem in adding new AMO environment
> 
> Contra:
> (?)

Uploading procedure wasn't designed for end users but for Mozilla conributors,
so we need to hack uploader UI

-- 
Aleksey