[Sugar-devel] ASLO activities with no repository

Gonzalo Odiard godiard at gmail.com
Wed May 24 06:45:29 EDT 2017


Please create that page, I will try to point to the repositories if I can.

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
wrote:

> You are correct, about 75% of the activities on ASLO have identified
> repositories. Interestingly, there are 250 repositories on
> git.sugarlabs.org
> which may be activity projects with no corresponding bundle on ASLO.
>
> I reviewed the Pootle list yesterday and recorded the url to each
> repository in the spreadsheet.
>
> So the question is, when to go for the last resort? No harm is done by
> creating a repository from the bundle.
>
> Since I am traveling in the next two weeks, I doubt there will be time to
> work on this until after that. If the community wishes I can then create a
> wiki page with the list of these orphans. It would be essentially the list
> of 224 minus about 20 where repositories have been identified by you and
> others.
>
> Tony
>
>
>
> On 05/24/2017 06:06 PM, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>
> Most activities certainly had a repository.
> I fully agree with creating repositories from bundles only as a last
> resource.
> Probably is better create a wiki page based in the  Pootle page and add
> all the project without a known repository,
> and other can help to find the most updated repository.
>
> Gonzalo
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
> wrote:
>
>> You repeat that a repository exists before an activity bundle. I have
>> listed 200 activities (about 25%) of the activities
>> on ASLO that probably do not have one. Further, if the repository cannot
>> be found - we need to go ahead with what we have.
>> No matter how the working directory is created, git init should be
>> applied to create a repository and subsequent changes documented.
>>
>> If there is a problem with an activity, the github repository should have
>> an issue documenting the problem pending finding the resources to fix it.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>>
>> On 05/24/2017 02:29 PM, James Cameron wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:23:25AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, James
>>>>
>>>> Thank for these details. I am trying to find out what the standards
>>>> are for these repositories.
>>>>
>>>> Tony Forster contacted me by private email to let me know that
>>>> textdungeon did not have a repository. Version 4 is version 3 with
>>>> the removal of
>>>>
>>>> import simplejson
>>>>
>>>> which causes an activity to fail with python 2.7.
>>>>
>>> Both of these pieces of information should be in the commits; please
>>> rewrite them.
>>>
>>> Also, it should not be marked version 4 until you are ready to do the
>>> later steps in the role of activity maintainer; tag a release, make a
>>> bundle, and upload to ASLO.  As it stands now, there is no version 4
>>> bundle in ASLO, yet the repository contains a version 4.
>>>
>>> In summary, in making a repository:
>>>>
>>>>      * the commits need
>>>>              --author
>>>>              --date
>>>>              --compiled files such as .pyc should be deleted
>>>>       *git history should show each available version when created
>>>> from a bundle
>>>>       *delete MANIFEST
>>>>
>>> The delete of MANIFEST and the GTK+ 3 porting should be commits made
>>> after the commit of the latest ASLO version; not including any later
>>> version you release from git.
>>>
>>>       *add a .gitignore file (I understand this to be the same for all
>>>> activities)
>>>>
>>> No, it won't be the same.  It may have some patterns that are common.
>>> It should have patterns for any files that may be created by running
>>> or building the source.
>>>
>>> Regarding thoughts:
>>>>          b) how is an installed activity to work without these files
>>>> in the bundle? How is source code for object files kept in the
>>>> repository (e.g.  box2d)?
>>>>
>>> It will work mysteriously.  How and where source code is kept is up to
>>> the activity author.  My point is that you cannot trust the activity
>>> author to have included source, and so a git repository built from the
>>> bundle may end up being less useful for source control purposes.
>>>
>>>          c) this is the goal. However, how do you do this for an
>>>> activity for which there is no repository?
>>>>
>>> Do this carefully and with the appropriate social license; as part of
>>> taking on activity maintenance role for an activity.
>>>
>>> What Walter said, I agree with; paraphrasing now; creating a
>>> repository from a bundle is a last resort action deep inside a long
>>> process of maintaining an activity, which also includes upgrading it
>>> to GTK+ 3, testing, and making a release.
>>>
>>> It isn't something to do first on github.com/sugarlabs
>>>
>>>          d) I don't understand you here. Any developers will see an
>>>> activity with a link to a repository. How is that confusing?
>>>>
>>> Because the repository was built from the bundle, instead of the
>>> bundle built from the repository.
>>>
>>>          e) A repository provides a standard way to document problems
>>>> that prevent the activity from working. Many activities in github
>>>> may not work at a given time in the development, maintenance
>>>> cycle. This has no effect until the bundle is released to ASLO. We
>>>> have a fact that there are many (about one-half) bundles in ASLO
>>>> that do not work. The best I can do is test and write an issue as to
>>>> why they don't work. As volunteers get time, they can address the
>>>> issues.
>>>>
>>> Where standard ways to document problems go against code quality and
>>> maintenance in the project as a whole, then the latter should win.
>>>
>>>          I am not a 'maintainer' on ASLO. This permission would be
>>>>          helpful.
>>>>
>>> I was speaking of being an activity maintainer, rather than only
>>> developer status on activities.sugarlabs.org.
>>>
>>> The role of an activity maintainer is to accept changes from others,
>>> test the activity, iterate with fixes, update version, tag a release,
>>> make a bundle, upload to ASLO, upload to download.sugarlabs.org, and
>>> field any questions that arise.
>>>
>>> I'd like to assess your capability in all those steps before giving
>>> you any additional permissions on ASLO.  On the other hand, I can't
>>> give you any additional permissions on ASLO because I don't have them
>>> myself.  I'm not the one to convince on that.
>>>
>>>
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