[SoaS] SoaS 3 Activity list

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 29.03.2010, at 12:51, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Having had some feedback on the proposal of shipping just 6 Activities
>> for SoaS 3 I'm modifying the proposal a little and increasing the
>> number to 10 [1]. Although this does come with some caveats and a
>> challenge to those out there that would like to see some more
>> included.
>>
>> So the original proposal was the following list of Activities:
>> - browse
>> - physics
>> - turtleart
>> - irc
>> - log
>> - terminal
>>
>> I'm proposing adding the following:
>> - Record
>> - Write
>> - Chat.
>> - Some sort of shareable game such as memorize
>>
>> The reason for the above 4 is that they are a great demonstration of
>> the sharing and media capabilities of sugar, which I believe are some
>> of its best features, but I am open to suggestions.
>>
>> So now to the caveat and challenge. They will only be included if they
>> are working, tested and are stable as I believe it only makes the
>> Sugar platform look bad if they don't work well. The challenge is for
>> everyone in the community to assist in making sure they are working,
>> tested and stable. If ultimately they aren't included its everyone to
>> blame because they weren't. I believe I may know what the issue with
>> Write is so I'll be looking that with the hope of it being fixed this
>> week. I look forward to seeing reports of them working well and being
>> tested as well as patches and bug reports when they do not :-)
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> [1] I could possibly increase this to 12 if my arm is twisted enough
>> on the same proviso that they are stable, tested and are a good
>> demonstration of the Sugar platform, work well on a netbook platform
>> and XOs
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> Peter, I have to ask again why you do not want to include Etoys. It's working, tested, stable, and includes examples that emphasize Sugar as a creative learning platform (more so than any of the activities you do propose to include).
>
> - Bert -

+1

Also, as much as I would hate to see it off the list, Record is not
stable enough right now to consider for v3. Until we sort out our
various gst/alsa issues, we need to stay away from all of the
activities that use the camera.

That said, the 95% of all activities that are pure Python/Sugar should
run anywhere. So we have a lot to chose from. I'll make further
comments on Mel's criteria page.

-walter
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