[Sugar-devel] Download experimental without beeing logged in

[Aleksey Lim]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:52:36AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The ASLO[1] is based on Sugar Platform[2] idea when if activity
> developer wants to be sure that activity will start, just declares
> Sugar Platform range e.g. 0.82-0.88. This scheme is simple - users
> need to know only SP range to judge will activity start or not.
> But it doesn't work in other cases like binaries, non-SP dependencies.
> 
> These issues can't be solved within current ASLO (and current deployment
> scheme, "only .xo bundles"). But we can remove, inherited from AMO,
> practice when user should be logged in to download not public
> activities.
> 
> So, it will look like:
> 
> * featured activities(and collections) are blessed by ASLO editors
>   will just work on declared sugars
> * activities that just work on declared sugars
> * experimental activities
>   work in some cases e.g. dependencies exist, machine is x86 etc.
> 
> In all cases, user should not be logged in to download all these
> activity types. Does it break someone's workflows ?

I missed most obvious option, I've placed link to poll to news (left
side, under categories) section on ASLO home page.

Also please post a translate for followed gettext strings:

    msgid "Poll"
    msgid "Should users be logged in to download experimental activities."
    msgid "Leave a vote"

> 
> [1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.86/Platform_Components
> 
> -- 
> Aleksey
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Aleksey