[Sugar-devel] activity updater

[Simon Schampijer]

On 06/14/2010 11:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 23:51, Bernie Innocenti<bernie at codewiz.org>  wrote:
>> El Sun, 13-06-2010 a las 20:55 +0100, Gary C Martin escribió:
>>> OK, not strictly a patch but attached is an updated version of
>>> the currently malformed svg module-updater icon that's not
>>> drawing correctly in F13. Not sure who this needs to get to
>>
>>> (could only find it in Bernie's old depreciated software
>>> update git rep). It should live in the filesystem at:
>>>
>>>        /usr/share/sugar/data/icons/module-updater.svg
>>
>> There are two updaters: the old one written by C.Scott, which is the one
>> in my obsolete repo and Fedora packages, and a new one written from
>> scratch by DFarning for ASLO, which lives in the sugar repository.
>>
>> For the F11-0.88, we have a dilemma: the new updater is missing some
>> crucial features that deployments were relying upon.
>>
>> Daniel Drake and I discussed possible solutions when he visited
>> Paraguay. There are two equally acceptable possibilities:
>>
>> 1) is adding the missing features to the new codebase, which shouldn't
>> be too hard but needs someone to do it by mid-July maximum. Anyone
>> available?
>>
>> 2) The other possibility is adding the OLPC microformat support to ASLO
>> and reverting to the old updater, which would mean less developer time
>> but reintroduces the dependency on bitfrost which we'd rather keep away
>> from the Sugar codebase.
>>
>> Or even a combination of the two. The new query protocol is very slow,
>> so we might want to teach ASLO about the microformat anyway. When I
>> checked the php code with Daniel, it seemed very easy to do.
>>
>> Alsroot and I discussed the possibility to add .xol support to ASLO.
>> While we agree that ASLO isn't a very good fit for static content, we're
>> going to support .xol for the utilitarian purpose of making the updater
>> work in F11-0.88.
>
> Wish I had time to help with that, but I wanted to mention that I
> greatly admire the work you have been doing since you arrived in
> Paraguay.
>
> I specially value your understanding of what is required in the field
> to make Sugar fulfill its mission and wish people like you had more
> voice in SLs as opposed to "visionaries".
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu

I want to second that!

Thanks Bernie for your great work in Paraguay. And I am convinced that 
this is the sustainable way to move forward. To me, my experiences in 
the field helped a lot to understand what is needed.

Regards,
    Simon