[Sugar-devel] laptop.org pages for activities migrated to Sugar Labs (resending)

[S Page]

(Sorry, I intended this for sugar-devel but sent from the wrong account.)

To: sj, wiki-gang at lists.laptop.org
Cc: Mel Chua, devel at lists.laptop.org, *sugar-devel*
Subject: laptop.org pages for activities migrated to Sugar Labs

Summary:
* Use new {{activity migrated to sl.o}} template on wiki pages of
migrated activities.
* Start to remove redundant incorrect information from them.
* Continue to update activity template fragments for Activities/All
and activity groups.
* I changed {{OBX activity}} template's core/bundled/extra handling.


Samuel Klein replied:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:12 PM, S Page <info at skierpage.com> wrote:
>> Several other migrated activities likewise have incorrect
>> wiki.laptop.org pages.
>
> Indeed.  Please tag those at the top with {{Migrated to sl.o}} but
> don't blank the page.  In this case you are moving a page that can be
> edited and discussed to one that does not really support either ...

Agreed.

1. Leave activity pages on wiki.laptop.org
2. Add new {{activity migrated to sl.o}} template to them, see e.g.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cartoon_Builder
3. Start to delete {{OBX }} templates and semantic info such as {{OBX
xobundle and |i18n= from them that's redundant and will drift
out-of-date.

More details are on
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Maintaining_activity_web_information

> (and that has misleading metadata).
I'm not sure what you mean.  sl.o wiki pages have no metadata.

> [leave] the original pages up for roughly 12 months,
Sounds good.

>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Maintaining_activity_web_information to
I updated this with these ideas.

>> I think only activities in an activity group or with an update URL
>> pointing to wiki.laptop.org still need information on w.l.o.
>> But what do others think?
>
> I think it makes sense to have the short-template versions of all
> activities that work on XOs on [[Activities/All]] and the like, until
> the activity-discovery process within Sugar [and within older versions
> of Sugar out in the wild] changes.

Yes.  Activity maintainers need to keep their activity fragment
templates on wiki.laptop.org up to date so various subpages like
Activities/All and Activities/G1G1/8.2 continue to indicate newest
version that works with that release.

>   But those could be updated from
> info stored in an activities.sl.o database.

It's software, anything's possible!

BTW, I made an adjustments to the {{OBX activity}} template.  This
used to categorize activities as core, bundled, or extra; but now that
all activities besides Journal are optional, only the first two show
anything.  I think it works.

I hope this helps.
-- 
=S Page