[SoaS] Inclusion of Foodforce in the Sugar Honey Packages as part of Soas

[Deepank Gupta]

Hi,

> I've seen the FoodForce2 posts some time ago... great work! :)
Well, I can't speak for the Sugar process (to get it included in Honey), but
for SoaS: We can include whatever is reasonably requested - though being on
activities.sugarlabs.org is a requirement. I think it would be awesome to
have FoodForce2 on it...

Thanks Sebastian.


> First try was a noisy beeping sound
when starting up, and had to kill
it to keep from making noise at the
ClassActs book sprint, iirc.

Can you repro the error and send me some logs/screenshot.

> Downloading has not been consistently
working since, for me (hangs during downloading),
so maybe some more testing, and tracking of bugs,
to release it further on the world?

We are constantly working on bug fixes and issues for the new release. We
have had over 70 issues filed for the beta release of which 33 are still
being fixed. The newer release will be good in terms of code quality and
should have lesser bugs.

Thanks,
Deepank


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:11 AM, DancesWithCars <danceswithcars at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've tried the FoodForce Activity on occasion,
> and it does not always work for me...
>
> First try was a noisy beeping sound
> when starting up, and had to kill
> it to keep from making noise at the
> ClassActs book sprint, iirc.
>
> Downloading has not been consistently
> working since, for me (hangs during downloading),
> so maybe some more testing, and tracking of bugs,
> to release it further on the world?
>
> I'm liking what I've seen of it,
> but it doesn't always work for me,
> though I've not spent a lot of
> time figuring out why not.
>
> Nor do I know the history, nor
> politics, nor process of getting something
> into Sugar/ SOAS/ Xoos/ name du jour...
>
> FoodForce is similar to something we
> had on Apple II computers back
> in 1981-1982 time frame,
> though I've never found the reference/
> proper name of it.
>
> Also, my SpeakSign is not deliverable/
> running yet, so I can't throw too many stones,
> as I live in a glass house (figuratively),
> as well.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Deepank,
> >
> > Deepank Gupta wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The foodforce team has been working on the Foodforce2
> >> activity(http://code.google.com/p/foodforce) for over an year now. This
> >> activity has been proven to enhance the learning capabilities of
> >> children(school visits)
> >> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Food_Force_2/Team_School_Visit> and has had
> >> over 90000 xo downloads
> >> <http://code.google.com/p/foodforce/downloads/list> for the beta
> >> release. On the activities.sugarlab.org
> >> <http://activities.sugarlab.org>, the activity is ranked 6th in terms
> of
> >> weekly downloads and is also a featured program on Pygame page.
> >
> > I've seen the FoodForce2 posts some time ago... great work! :)
> >
> >> We are planning to release another version of Foodforce in November with
> >> more advanced features and fixing of all the previous bugs and would
> >> like to know the process of inclusion into the Honey packages and thus
> >> being a part of the Soas distribution by default.
> >
> > Well, I can't speak for the Sugar process (to get it included in Honey),
> > but for SoaS: We can include whatever is reasonably requested - though
> > being on activities.sugarlabs.org is a requirement. I think it would be
> > awesome to have FoodForce2 on it...
> >
> > Does anyone object to adding it?
> >
> > Sean, maybe this would even be something worth promoting?
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >> Deepank
> >
> > --Sebastian
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>
>
>
> --
> DancesWithCars
> leave the wolves behind ;-)
>
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