[Sugar-devel] feature freeze issue #3: resume by default

[Simon Schampijer]

Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 21 Jan 2009, at 01:01, Gary C Martin wrote:
> 
>> On 21 Jan 2009, at 00:18, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>>
>>> Gary C Martin wrote:
>>>> On 17 Jan 2009, at 15:30, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 15:54, Sascha Silbe
>>>>> <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 02:45:54PM +0100, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Issues: We do not have a don't save those changes option. If
>>>>>>> you  resume by
>>>>>>> default you could overwrite something you needed. So we loose
>>>>>>> the  undo
>>>>>>> functionality.
>>>>>> That sounds _REALLY_ bad. I remember looking at some versioning
>>>>>> proposal,
>>>>>> what happened to that one?
>>>>> Well, clicking on the activity icon in the favorites view will now
>>>>> resume the last activity entry in exactly the same way as if the
>>>>> user
>>>>> clicked on its icon in the journal.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's true that we would like to store all the intermediate versions
>>>>> and allow the user to work with each of them, but we haven't
>>>>> gotten to
>>>>> implement it in something that can be released.
>>>>>
>>>>> So the change here is that we have given more prominence to resume
>>>>> operations and have moved starting up new activities to a second
>>>>> place. But we haven't really changed the mechanics by which
>>>>> activities
>>>>> get stored in the journal.
>>>>>
>>>>> After talking for some time with Simon, we have agreed on requesting
>>>>> input from people willing to install the last code and giving it a
>>>>> try. We would love to hear about suggestions and are willing to
>>>>> delay
>>>>> for a few days the release in case we find that something can be
>>>>> done
>>>>> and that we won't be regressing in any way regarding past releases.
>>>> FWIW: I'd love to give it a whirl and provide some feedback,
>>>> unfortunately I only have access to Sugar on XO hardware – so I'm
>>>> out  of such early test/debug/feedback loop until things land in
>>>> Joyride  (or some future equivalent).
>>>> --G
>>>
>>> The 0.83.4 did land in joyride build 2631. Release Notes are here
>>> and will be officially announced tomorrow. 
>>> http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.83.4
>>
>> Simon, thanks for the heads up! I'd just plumped to try 2631 having
>> seen the build changes, but good to know it's the one to start pushing
>> on. The download has been taking a long time so far, will start giving
>> it whirl tomorrow.
>>
>>> Not sure all the activities have been made available in olpc places.
>>
>> I'll dig through the recent [RELEASE] emails for any activities I
>> start to re-test, and make sure I get the intended .xo bundles for
>> each. Will post the list of .xo URLs here,
> 
> Here's the latest list of activities I came up that are different from 
> the G1G1 available versions:
> 
> Write-61 (G1G1 is at 60) – No .xo bundle provided used git to get:

http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/bundles/Write-61.xo

> Browse-103 (G1G1 is at 101) – No .xo bundle provided used git to get:

http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/bundles/Browse-103.xo

Cheers,
    Simon