[Sugar-devel] Proxy Settings Feature in the recent versions of sugar

[James Cameron]

Thanks, that's the one I remember.

Manash, please review that patch.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:18:59PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> There are a old patch from Manuel Quiñones here that could be useful:
> 
> [1]https://github.com/godiard/sugar/commit/
> ebfd1ed0f941dca982b90d0d08efda7c2ae75a84
> 
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:08 PM, James Cameron <[2]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     Yes, the feature page is out of date.  Please fix it.
> 
>     Pages that link to the feature page are 0.96 and 0.98 feature lists.
> 
>     [3]http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.96/Feature_List (defer)
>     [4]http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.98/Feature_List (accepted, but x%)
> 
>     The feature was code complete, with pre-github pull requests ready,
>     but the changes were not merged into the main Sugar repository.
> 
>     It was also a feature page for a fork of Sugar, called Dextrose.
> 
>     Dextrose did merge the pull request.  I'm unsure where the best source
>     is for Dextrose, but [5]http://git.sugarlabs.org/dextrose has a set of
>     repositories, and the Sugar repository was last updated in December
>     2013.  You might review the many repositories associated with that
>     link, looking for strings used in the screenshots.
> 
>     If there are any developers reading who were involved at the time,
>     they might speak up to guide Manash to useful sources.
> 
>     Manash, if you have reimplemented the feature without using the old
>     code, then please also do these actions;
> 
>     - replace the screenshots in the feature page,
> 
>     - delete any out of date information, (it can always be restored from
>       page history if needed),
> 
>     - add a link to the feature page on the 0.110 pages, as a proposal.
>    
>     On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 12:13:34PM +0530, Manash Raja wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > The college Internet connection that I have goes through a proxy server.
>     I am
>     > an interested developer as well as a sugar user along with my brother in
>     > school. Even though there is a feature page for proxy setting ( [1]https:
>     //
>     > [6]wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_Settings ), it seems that the
>     settings are
>     > not available in the recent versions of sugar. So, I created the settings
>     > feature and sent a PR ( [2][7]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/665
>     ).
>     >
>     > I want guidance on how should I proceed further. I mean, what about the
>     feature
>     > page which says the feature is 100% complete for a particular version and
>     yet
>     > is not available on the recent release? Also, shall I continue with the
>     > implementation I sent in the PR as that would be more comfortable for me,
>     and
>     > hence would take less time for the feature to get incorporated in the
>     latest
>     > verrsions of sugar, than to get the previous implementation from the
>     features
>     > page? 
>     >
>     > Thanking you
>     > Regards
>     > Manash Pratim Das
>     >
>     > References:
>     >
>     > [1] [8]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_Settings
>     > [2] [9]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/665
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> References:
> 
> [1] https://github.com/godiard/sugar/commit/ebfd1ed0f941dca982b90d0d08efda7c2ae75a84
> [2] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.96/Feature_List
> [4] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.98/Feature_List
> [5] http://git.sugarlabs.org/dextrose
> [6] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_Settings
> [7] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/665
> [8] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Proxy_Settings
> [9] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/665
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