[SoaS] Update Karma points for Sugar 0.90 --- Current Summary

[Bert Freudenberg]

Thank you so much, Peter!

- Bert -

On 01.10.2010, at 11:58, Peter Robinson wrote:

> As a note I'll be packaging the last of the releases today. I've been
> travelling the last day or so and ran out of time.
> 
> Peter
> 
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>> Disclaimer:  I am asking for help. And I am sharing my experiences:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Sugar 0.90 has been packaged thanks to Peter in no time. Currently the
>> packages are in updates-testing. They need three Karma points to get
>> into the stable branch and hence can be included in the nightly builds.
>> 
>> Only three points, I hear you say? Sounds easy enough. And actually here
>> are the good news, it is easy enough!
>> 
>> You can do the following:
>> 
>> 
>> === Install latest Soas and install the 0.90 rpms ===
>> 
>> - grab the latest build from
>> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/ and put it
>> on a stick
>> 
>> - when you booted successfully open a terminal et root:
>>    su
>> 
>> - then you can install the latest packages with:
>>    yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing [package-name]
>>    example: yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing sugar
>> 
>> - What should update you all the packages is the following command:
>>    yum groupinstall --enablerepo=updates-testing sugar-desktop
>> 
>> - then it is good to enable the sugar logs before restarting sugar, in a
>> terminal edit .sugar/debug and un-comment the last line (use your editor
>> of choice here)
>> 
>> - you now need to restart sugar and start you testing
>> 
>> - Tip-of-the-day: if you want to see the current version of an installed
>> package you can use the following command in the terminal (no need to be
>> root)
>>    rpm -q [package-name]
>>    example: rpm -q sugar
>> 
>> 
>> === Give the Karma points ===
>> 
>> After all the hard work of testing you will want to share your results.
>> You can update the karma points at:
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/login?_csrf_token=22e572c58d9f8900afdd5092448f24e6c27d327c
>> 
>> Yes you need to have an account for that, but it is easy to do. The
>> packages below needs updating - and as you see I have done my job as well :)
>> 
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-browse-118-1.fc14,sugar-imageviewer-15-1.fc14,sugar-write-71-1.fc14
>> 
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/etoys-4.1.2388-1.fc14,sugar-chat-68-1.fc14,sugar-datastore-0.90.0-1.fc14,sugar-base-0.90.1-1.fc14,sugar-toolkit-0.90.0-1.fc14,sugar-artwork-0.90.0-1.fc14,sugar-0.90.0-1.fc14
>> 
>> 
>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sugar-turtleart-98-1.fc14,etoys-4.1.2387-1.fc14
>> 
>> Of course you can as well ask questions here, if you are unsure if
>> something is a bug or not or if you just want to congratulate the team
>> for their work - please drop us a line.
>> 
>> 
>> === Known Issues ===
>> Here is a list of current Issues in the F14 Soas builds I have found so far:
>> 
>> - Gnome keyring pops up at first start:
>> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2339
>>    ---> At least a new behavior, if not fixable it should be documented
>> what to do.
>> 
>> - Physics crashes: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2363
>>    ---> We had a similar issue in Sugar, the same fix can be applied here.
>> 
>> - Calculate does not start: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2245
>>    ---> Version 34 fixes it, has to be packaged
>> 
>> - Terminal: Can not scroll when using less: "Warning Terminal is not
>> fully functional". On the XO builds I could not edit files with Vi
>> neither which works here ok. There was a new version of VTE in
>> updates-testing (0.26.0-1) but that one did not fix that issue.
>> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2394
>>    ---> Maybe someone could test the gnome-terminal if that functions.
>> 
>> - Activity icon not disappearing from the neighborhood view
>> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2389
>>    ---> Tomeu has a fix in Gabble and is verifying now if that happens
>> on Salut as well.
>> 
>> - Sharing button not updated when resuming a previously-shared activity
>> http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2390
>>     ---> Tomeu is on that one as well.
>> 
>> 
>> What started as a five minutes project turned out to take me a few
>> minutes more :) - I hope you enjoyed the reading and we will see
>> positive Karma points spreading all around.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>>    Simon
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