[sugar] Software schedule for B2 build and call for activities and content.

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpg
Wed Jan 3 15:35:13 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:38 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 16:37 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > It looks like the BTest-2 build will be near the end of January. I'll
> > probably have better information sometime next week and details below
> > are subject to change.
> > 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Week of January 1: CaFE ASIC and first boards are built for BTest2. Any
> > driver changes or fixes will have to be shaken down, both for the
> > firmware and for Linux.
> > January 2: Requests for new activities/content due.
> > January 4: Decisions on new content requests.
> > January 4: All packages/bundles for initial base level due.
> > January 5: Initial base level starts integration
> > January 8: Integrated build available
> > January 12: All updated packages/bundles for initial base level due.
> > January 14: Final firmware for BTest-2 to Quanta for testing.
> > January 14: second base level of integrated build for testing.  Only 
> >     serious bug fixes after this date. Testing at OLPC and Quanta
> >     during the week of January 15.
> > January 21: final system image to Quanta for production.
> > 
> 
> OK, it's Janurary 2nd here in Australia so to be clear, I propose that
> that the new python wrapped AbiWord widget be included in the b2 build.
> 
> Marc has a working version in jh-build.
> 
> For your information the python wrapper now has methods for content
> extraction via
> 
> (bytes, length) = AbiWord.Canvas().get_content_all(char * mimetype)
> 
> and 
> 
> (bytes,length) = AbiWord.Canvas().get_content_selection(char * mimetype)
> 
> Which return either the entire document or the current selection in the
> format given by "mimetype". "mimetype" is either the mimetype eg
> "text/rtf" or the commonly used file extension eg ".rtf". If the
> mimetype is unrecognized or not implement the content is return in *.abw
> format.
> 
> These methods are also available via the properties mimetype, content,
> selection and data_length and of course via the regular C-interface to
> AbiWidget
> 
> abi_widget_get_content_all(AbiWidget * abi, char * mimetype, gint *
> iLength)
> 
> abi_widget_get_content_selection(AbiWidget * abi, char * mimetype, gint
> * iLength)
> 
> This is available for any other application in OLPC that needs a rich
> text widget accessible through python.
> 
> The next missing piece of the writing specification that will be
> implemented is the pop-up floating toolbar. Marc has code for this
> already in place and it should be ready by the end of the week, provided
> we can work out how to make C++ plugins load in the python-wrapped
> application.
> 
> If there is anybody with experience on how to do this please get in
> contact with Marc, myself or the AbiWord community
> (abiword-dev at abisource.com)
> 

Awesome! We need to get this on the images soon. Do you guys have rpms
for libabiword and pyabiword?

Marco



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