[Sugar-devel] Updated Open Office.ods Spreadsheet of tested Compatible Activities with a Soas Mirabelle 509 USB

[Aleksey Lim]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:54:56AM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 20:59 -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
> > Bernie:
> > 
> > 1-)Re-tested ASLO .xo activities for compatibility with 
> > soas-i386-20100509 as a 2GB USB on my ACER Aspire One.
> > 
> > (All of the Activities tested were run from a 2nd 1GB USB (it has about 
> > 140 on it) without copy-pasting loading to the journal.)
> > 
> > Link:
> > http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Activities-Index-Mirabell.ods
> 
> The work you're doing is amazing, but it's hard to collaborate on a
> spreadsheet. Maybe you could translate it to a wiki page? Or, even
> better, maybe we could encode this knowledge right into ASLO?
> 
> For example, you could edit the description to add your notes at the
> bottom.
> 
> The only problem with using ASLO directly is that there's no way to get
> a nice report in table format like the one you did. The knowledge is all
> there, but it's presented in a sparse format which is inconvenient for
> someone who wants to decide whether or not Sugar 0.88 is deployable.
> 
> Perhaps we can solve this issue at a later time by adding a new report
> page to ASLO. I'm not familiar with ASLO's codebase, but since it's just
> a PHP application it shouldn't be that hard to hack something with it.
> 
> Just my random thoughts, not really a concrete proposal. For the time
> being, thanks for collecting this very valuable information.

We can also use collections somehow(but not sure how), collection entry
has a collector comment field.

> 
> 
> > 2_)Also: I did my first edit in ASLO for read. (changed range from 0.88 
> > to 0.86)
> 
> Why, it does not work? :-(
> 
> Please, file a bug report in Trac, we'll work on it.
> 
> 
> > I plan to rapidly enter the findings listed on the spreadsheet into ASLO.
> 
> Thanks! At this time, the #1 blocker for upgrading to Sugar 0.88 is that
> very few activities are marked as compatible.
> 
> Aleksey: to speed-up Thomas' work, maybe we could hack the database to
> pre-mark all 0.86-compatible activities as compatible? So he would just
> need to un-mark those which turn out to be incompatible.

Well, anyway activities should be tested in 0.88, I just afraid such
autoset will only increase a mess.

> The release-notes for Sugar 0.88 claim no changes in the activity API,
> so we can expect almost every activity that works on 0.86 to also work
> on 0.88.
> 
> -- 
>    // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
> 

-- 
Aleksey