[Sugar-devel] Download experimental without being logged in

[Aleksey Lim]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 05:35:40AM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
> Aleksey;
> 
> suggestions:
> 
> 1-)http://idea.sugarlabs.org/drupal5/ideatorrent/
> 
> Login is not https
> 
> Using  my PC (ubuntu 9.04)
> (I did not try to login from Xo-1 or Soas)
> My policy is NOT to use password entries with http
> 
> 2-)I think experimental activities need to require password

Well, pretty visible "Experimental" string could be enough.

> 
> 3-)I still would like to see the requesters hardware and software version
> to be used for "detected sugars" rather than "declared sugars"
> .............
> 
> * featured activities(and collections) are blessed by ASLO editors
>   will just work on declared sugars 
> * activities that just work on declared sugars
> .........
>  s/declared/detected

I'll add arch detecting scheme (and per arch uploads) but it won't solve
the full issue since "detected sugar" can't mean "what packages are installed
on particular user box".

> A non-sugar login to the site should display all available activities.
> 
> 
> Tom Gilliard
> satellit
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > 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