[Sugar-devel] Errors while Porting Video Editor

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 14:44, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Please do not fork Pitivi.

And btw, the Pitivi developers are willing to help, but we need to
work with them in a way that we don't take too much of their time.

Regards,

Tomeu

> You should work with project developers to make a presentation layer for
> Sugar.
> The way in which you are working will have an activity outdated before
> completion.
> The error you are having has to do with this ill-defined startup class in
> the file activity.info
>
> [gonzalo at nautilus logs]$ cat in.seeta.Pitivi-1.log
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/sugar-activity", line 21, in <module>
>     main.main()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sugar/activity/main.py", line 111,
> in main
>     module = __import__(module_name)
> ImportError: No module named application
>
> Gonzalo Odiard
> SugarLabs Arg
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Manjot,
>>
>> unfortunately don't have lots of time to invest in your project,
>> though I think it's a very valuable one.
>>
>> It's very likely that the other people that could help you won't have
>> as well lots of time, because there are many other people who want to
>> do things with Sugar and Pitivi and have questions as well.
>>
>> That's why I will suggest you some ways to request help without
>> requiring so much time from others:
>>
>> - subscribe to the relevant mailing lists and be present in the
>> relevant IRC channels. Read what others write, and learn from there.
>>
>> - make questions as specific as possible. If you have a problem, try
>> to get an idea as good as possible about it and include a good
>> description in your email. Don't send just a link to logs and expect
>> other people to interpret them.
>>
>> - keep a public log of your work, be it in a wiki or in a blog.
>>
>> - push often your work to a public repository, I would suggest git.
>>
>> If you have some free time, I suggest you to peruse:
>>
>> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>> http://producingoss.com/
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tomeu
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 13:18, Manjot Pahwa <manjot at seeta.in> wrote:
>> > Dear Benjamin and Tomeu,
>> >
>> > The version of Pitivi video editor I was using to create an XO bundle
>> > was
>> > not the most stable one. Hence I have now created another package
>> > utilizing
>> > an older and more stable version of Pitivi.
>> >
>> > The new XO package can be found at: http://seeta.in/videoeditor/
>> > The errors I received can be found here: http://www.pastebin.be/24077
>> >
>> > Wish if you could suggest pointers on debugging this issue. Appreciate
>> > your
>> > support.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Manjot Pahwa
>> > Research Engineer
>> > Software for Education, Entertainment and Training Activities (SEETA)
>> > +91-9953-310-807
>> > manjot at seeta.in
>> >
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>
>
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> Gonzalo Odiard
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> Sistemas Australes
>
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