[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FW: Sugar 0.100 status report - April 2

[Daniel Narvaez]

Adding devel and Ajay.


On 3 April 2013 19:26, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I guess this is where this should go? Clue me in if it should be posted
> elsewhere.
>
> Caryl
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 18:05:36 +0200
> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugar 0.100 status report - April 2
> From: dwnarvaez at gmail.com
> To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
>
>
> Hi Caryl,
>
> could you post this on the list?. I don't know the answer to your
> questions, but the patches author will know for sure...
>
>
> On 3 April 2013 02:04, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi...
>
> Looks like great stuff! Adapting Sugar to run on Android opens lots of
> possibilities. My programming days ended long ago with Pascal, but I might
> be able to offer some suggestions as a Sugar user... here's one to start...
>
> For the multiple selection of items in the journal... will this also allow
> multiple deletion of entries? That would be a handy feature I have often
> wished were available. Also, do the selected items have to be consecutive?
> Could some be skipped over (either initially or by allowing a deselect of
> individual items that aren't wanted on the list).
>
> Caryl
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 00:37:08 +0200
> From: dwnarvaez at gmail.com
> To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> CC: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: [IAEP] Sugar 0.100 status report - April 2
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I will try to send out regular reports about the progress of the 0.100
> release, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly depending on how much is happening.
>
> 1. A bit late, but we finally have a schedule for the release.We are not
> going to have a feature acceptance deadline this time. We decided to have
> that discussion early, to try and narrow the focus of the release.
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.100/Roadmap
>
> 2. In parallel some developers will keep to refine the 0.98 series. Help
> is welcome on that effort. While perhaps not as exciting as new features,
> bug fixing and polish is essential to good software.
>
> 3. The main goal of the 0.100 release will be to the develop an HTML5
> based toolkit for activities. This will facilitate running Sugar activities
> on other platforms, like Android. In addition we are planning to land
> several other features which has seen development in the past few months
>
> Multiple selection in the Journal
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multi_selection
>
> Enhanced support for 3G modems
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/3G_Support/Database_Support
>
> Background customization
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Background_image_on_home_view
>
> Multiple home views
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multiple_home_views
>
> Integration with web services
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Web_services
>
> Journal comments box
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Comment_box_in_journal_detail_view
>
> Icon customization
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Icon_Change
>
> 4. The project has always had a bit of an issue with submitted code being
> timely reviewed. The situation got worse in the last few months. This is a
> major blocker for contributions and we are trying to improve. Simon and
> Manuel, which currently maintains all the Glucose modules alone, are
> putting together a list of "reviewers" to help them out with the task. We
> are also trying to find review tools which will allow the process to be
> both trackable and visible to everyone (and hopefully a bit more pleasant
> too!). We have so far mostly experimented with a workflow based on github
> pull requests.
>
> 5. Walter Bender landed several patches to add a comment box to journal
> entries. It will be populated both by the Portfolio activity and by the web
> services integration which is being worked on. The obligatory screenshot
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/4/4a/FB-comments.png
>
> 6. All in all I think we made great progress planning the next release.
> But we will need everyone help to execute and make it a really good one.
>
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