[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Automatic activity updates

[Jerry Vonau]

On 12 June 2013 15:10, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we are going to code freeze on Sep 4, and that's when it would also
> probably make sense to branch master. Which is a  bit later than you would
> like to land it.
>
> Though I wonder if we should consider this feature for 0.100 since
>
> * There is still a considerable amount of time left. Freeze dates seems to
> be compatible with your goals.
> * Part of the work seems to be cleaning up the existing mess.
> * A few of the features we planned for 0.100 seems a bit stalled (3g
> modems, multiple journal selection, multiple home views).
>

FWIW, 3g modem[1], and 3g sharing[2] both work in Dextrose4, perhaps you
could look to see how AC implemented their version.

1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/3G_Support
2. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/3G_Support/Share

Jerry


> * The web activities work, which is where most of the changes are going,
> is not affecting much the existing code.
>
> Ideally we would have discussed this earlier but pragmatically I don't see
> strong reasons to keep this code out of tree until the next release.
>
>
>
> On 12 June 2013 00:42, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Over the last few months I have been slowly developing a much needed
>> field feature, the final piece in the "automatic system upgrade"
>> puzzle. Now I am getting close, I would like to open the
>> formalities...
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Automatic_activity_updates
>>
>> At this point I've iterated the design once or twice and implemented
>> most of this locally. I will hopefully publish the full patch series
>> in the next couple of weeks.
>>
>> I understand this is too late for 0.100. What I would hope for is a
>> review and (after feedback) merge into a master branch before the end
>> of August. Then I will run a live field test and send in any necessary
>> refinements. This would then likely be deployed large scale in
>> Nicaragua at the end of the year or the start of the next.
>>
>> Comments welcome.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Daniel
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