[Sugar-devel] buddy tags

[Gary C Martin]

On 2 Aug 2009, at 15:00, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> Hi Gary (and others),
>
> what was decided about buddy tagging?

No one else has commented yet :-(

> Were you interested in working on it?

Yes, I've just added some new mock-ups (keeping them as simple/ 
achievable as possible), so maybe someone else can take a look at them  
and provide some feedback:

	http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Buddy_Tags

Though I'm not sure I have the stamina to get past your code reviews  
for any original coding. It's hard enough to get a bug fix r+ accepted  
when making a minimal tweak to existing code! ;-)

> From the last Sugar releases tags are broadcasted along the rest of
> the buddy info when using gabble. Was it decided that we also needed
> tags in Salut for 0.86? Or it could come in a later stage?


Not knowing the amount of work involved I can't really make a call. My  
last comment is best I can make:

"Well ejabberd was definitely the first to have solved as it  
represents a solution for a more dispersed community, less likely to  
know about the others. But having both [gabble + salut] would  
obviously be much more consistent.– If you told me 'journal grid view'  
won't happen, or tool bar 'stop' always visible won't happen, or 'ad- 
hoc wirless networks' won't happen, or 'tags under Journal titles'  
won't happen, or 'Metacity layering issue will persist',– then I'd say  
let salut slip to 0.88."

I was also hoping to get some feedback on the first boot experience if  
anyone has a strong opinion:

"I really do like the simple 'first' boot experience, pick colours,  
enter name, and your are done! Great! What do folks think about  
exposing an optional self tag prompt at this point? Wording is going  
to be tough, and would likely need some prompting example tags. As a  
challenge, feel free to reply with some single word tag lists you  
might assign to yourself..."

Regards,
--Gary