[Sugar-devel] Activity page wiki location?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 18:07, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 23 Dec 2008, at 12:37, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 13:32, Morgan Collett <morgan.collett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 14:25, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 13:05, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I was just musing on building a wiki page to document the spin of
>>>>> Labyrinth I'm hacking on, and I was about to create:
>>>>>
>>>>>      http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Labyrinth
>>>>>
>>>>> So... Should Activity wiki pages be migrating over to SL
>>>>> infrastructure?
>>>>
>>>> Well, kids are right now getting their activities from the OLPC wiki.
>>>> I think the plan of record is to set up a fork of addons.mozilla.org
>>>> to replace the wiki-based system that is in use today.
>>>>
>>>> So if you want kids to get your activity today, I would keep using the
>>>> workflow based on wiki.l.o, and later upload the bundle to
>>>> addons.sugarlabs.org.
>>>
>>> I think Gary's question was (and if not, certainly mine is): Where
>>> should we be documenting, or project-managing, the activity
>>> development? For example, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Chat - should this
>>> migrate to http://sugarlabs.org/go/Chat?
>
> My intent was to document the Labyrinth spin somewhere ~public so we at
> least have some record should others want to go look or even provide
> feedback, this could be either potential users or interested/curious devs.
>
>>> I have every intention of continuing to upload the .xo files to
>>> wiki.laptop.org, so that they appear in [[Activities]] and
>>> [[Activities/G1G1]] and [[Activities/All]] etc, as well as or until
>>> addons.sugarlabs.org is suitably working, but that doesn't provide
>>> documentation, planning or descriptions of how to get involved in a
>>> specific activity.
>>
>> Oh, in that case it depends on who is your intended audience. If you
>> want to address only to people involved in OLPC, then use the OLPC
>> wiki, ml, trac, etc. If you want to address to all people involved in
>> Sugar, then use the SL facilities.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>
>
> The wiki.laptop.org text says that you should only add activities to the
> official activity list pages (Activities/All is that space) if it's
> considered "stable" (make up your own mind as to the quality of that
> statement given some listed don't even launch), most activity authors seem
> to usually start with an unlinked page for their activity during the
> unstable phase.
>
> Worth pointing out that there are quite a few such Activities off the radar.
> For the curious the below link should show you all pages where at least the
> author has used Category:Activities:
>
>        http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Activities
>
> Anyway, this unlinked page aproach was the plan for the Labyrinth spin,
> until it has had some time to mature or die if someone pushes for a better
> solution. I'll just go ahead and build a w.l.o/go/Labyrinth page as it
> doesn't sound like SL is quite ready for Activity wiki pages, and it'll be
> easy to migrate content when that time arrives.

Got it. Makes sense to me.

Regards,

Tomeu