[Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Testing Sugar Activities Fedora-Live-SoaS-i686-21_Beta-4

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
>> wrote:
>> > You find it. I don't know why the bot directory should be deleted.
>> > I cc to peter, who maintain the rpm.
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>> It goes back long before I was  the maintainer and was previously
>> working. The question is what does it do, and why when Speak has been
>> working for years does it suddenly break.
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>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/sugar-speak.git/commit/?id=438f3796a85556873c5e45d6ba01ccfa558ca198
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> That patch removes the bots functionality. Looks like was done to make the
> activity
> work on systems with small memory (XO-1, probably)
> cc is Sebastian, the patch author, to check if this is still needed.
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> I see 438f3796a85556873c5e45d6ba01ccfa558ca198 removes the bots directory,
> _and_ apply the patch  sugar-speak-no-aiml.patch, to remove the need of the
> bots data,
> but right now, we are not applying that patch, then would be better add the
> bot directory again.

I suspect it was sufficiently long ago that Seb won't remember the reason.

Ultimately we need to just sort it out here.

Peter