[Sugar-devel] GSoC Project: Migration of Activities wiki-pages to GitHub

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Sun May 6 18:40:40 EDT 2018


Yes, we do seem to be talking to ourselves.

The goal remains, though the mentors in that meeting didn't mention
it; give them some slack, they haven't been especially heavy
contributors to Sugar Labs.  Of the three mentors present, Divyanshu,
Onuwa, and Ibiam, only Ibiam has been a recently active contributor,
and not to the Wiki, Help activity or https://help.sugarlabs.org/

Re: Hello World.  It is a coding example, has no use otherwise, so it
should not be in activities.sugarlabs.org; I've disabled it.  Version
will be incremented when a release is made.  Repository has no release
tags.  We need an activity maintainer for it.  A checklist for
maintaining an activity is here;

https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/contributing.md#checklist---maintainer

Across the activity set, we have very few activity maintainers.  This
will change as the GSoC coding period begins; particularly as Yash and
Rahul begin working.

Back on topic; Rudra's project has a purpose; it is a subset of
activity maintenance, but the coding is automation that will be used
_once_.  Possibly a brain-numbing exercise, akin to road construction
during the Irish potato famine.

I've been a reviewer for the pull requests so far; four of them just
now.  Mentors, Walter, Tony, and others could help by reviewing
Rudra's pull requests as they are made rather than leaving it to me.
;-)

@Rudra, my recommendation is to set an order of work; start with the
demonstration set of activities (Fructose), because we keep these
maintained well, then work on the activities that Tony has listed as
working with Ubuntu 18.04 or Thomas has listed as working with Fedora
28.

@Rudra, also think through the whole ecosystem from coding to user,
and propose changes to your project in response to your reading of
the current mailing list thread.  We're not expecting you to be a
compliant robot, but an imaginative student.  Situation reminds me of
something I saw in the student guide;

https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/finding-the-right-project.html

"Don’t be that person: Cut and pasting an idea from the organization page and turning that in as your project’s description is a big no-no. You’ll be expected to research and submit your own ideas about how to accomplish the project your way, not just state the end result."

On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 10:44:06AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
> Hi, Walter
> 
> Sadly, I saw no comment in the meeting that suggests the project includes this
> goal. As you know, a common outcome to GSOC projects is that they are not
> completed in the available time. Perhaps the project could be more explicit as
> an update to the help activity than as a migration of wiki pages to github.
> 
> Tony
> 
> On Sunday, 06 May, 2018 09:55 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
> 
>     On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 9:04 PM Tony Anderson <[1]tony at olenepal.org> wrote:
> 
>         SugarLabs is our site to communicate with our users and prospective
>         users. GitHub is our site to support SugarLabs development. In this
>         meeting it is pointed out that maintaining two versions of the
>         wikipages will be difficult (obvious, since we are unable to maintain
>         even one). The evil word 'deprecation' was used (I would have preferred
>         - improved). It is logical to maintain markdown pages describing the
>         technical design of an activity (such as Browse or Turtle Blocks).
>         However, we need documentation for users with screenshots showing the
>         intended method of use and providing challenges to show advanced
>         capabilities. ASLO needs more help to enable users to make informed
>         decisions on which activities to download and install.
> 
>         Our current direction seems to lead to us talking only to ourselves.
> 
>     Part of this effort is to update/expand/improve the Help Activity. It seems
>     that this would make the documentation more rather than less accessible,
>     especially for our users with limited internet access.
> 
>     regards.
> 
>     -walter 
> 
>         Tony
> 
>         On Friday, 04 May, 2018 10:54 PM, divyanshu rawat wrote:
> 
>             *
>             Hi Everyone,
> 
>             We are done with our first meeting with Rudra Sadhu and he is doing
>             great.
>             Here are the logs of today's meeting: [2]http://
>             meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2018-05-04T14:17:25.
>             Please share your opinions and suggestions.
>             And we will be doing the next meeting on next Friday at the same
>             time 1600 CET.
>            
>             Best
>             Divyanshu
> 
>> 
>             On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:40 PM, divyanshu rawat <[3]
>             divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>                 I will be there to attend.
> 
>                 On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 at 10:38 PM, Onuwa Nnachi Isaac <[4]
>                 matrix4u2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>                     Sounds good. 
> 
>                     On Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 18:07 Rudra Sadhu <[5]
>                     rdrsadhu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>                         Lets start this Friday. 1600 CET.
>                         > sure, I'll be present. All community members are
>                         invited to join as well. 
>                        
>                         Nice article by the way, I made some corrections
>                         regarding some typos.
>                         > thanks a lot! I've rectified them in the blog.
>                        
>                         regards,
>                         Rudra Sadhu
> 
>                         On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:51 PM, Onuwa Nnachi Isaac <
>                         [6]matrix4u2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>                             Greetings from Nigeria,
> 
>                             Welcome to Sugar Labs.
> 
>                             Lets start this Friday. 1600 CET.
> 
>                             We'll use the #sugar IRC.
> 
>                             Nice article by the way, I made some corrections
>                             regarding some typos.
> 
>                             [7]Link to the correction
> 
>                             Warm Regards
>                            
>                              
>                             Nnachi Isaac Onuwa
>                             [8]about.me/iamonuwa
>                             *
>                            
>                             On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 12:54 PM, Rudra Sadhu <[9]
>                             rdrsadhu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>                                 Greetings!
> 
>                                 Thank You for the opportunity to work with
>                                 Sugar Labs under the banner of Google Summer of
>                                 Code this year.
> 
>                                 I recently published an introductory blog post
>                                 [1], describing my GSoC 2018 journey.
>                                 Hope you'll love giving it a read.
> 
>                                 To my mentors (Divyanshu Rawat and Onuwa Nnachi
>                                 Isaac) :
>                                 Let me know your preferences to set up a
>                                 regular set of meeting times to discuss the
>                                 project.
>                                 I would prefer them to be on #sugar so that
>                                 other community members could possibly join.
> 
>                                 Looking forward to a great summer. :)
> 
>                                 Thanks,
>                                 Rudra Sadhu
> 
>                                 [1] [10]https://rdrsadhu.github.io/blog/
>                                 gsoc2018/
> 
>                 --
> 
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>             UnternehmerTUM GmbH 
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> References:
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> [1] mailto:tony at olenepal.org
> [2] http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2018-05-04T14:17:25
> [3] mailto:divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com
> [4] mailto:matrix4u2002 at gmail.com
> [5] mailto:rdrsadhu at gmail.com
> [6] mailto:matrix4u2002 at gmail.com
> [7] https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GpTc9JMuCZ6SIZ04Do9i_DAemGOcw8DIqjBUADRRzo/edit?usp=sharing
> [8] https://about.me/iamonuwa?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=edit_panel
> [9] mailto:rdrsadhu at gmail.com
> [10] https://rdrsadhu.github.io/blog/gsoc2018/
> [11] mailto:divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com
> [12] http://www.divyanshurawat.me/
> [13] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DCV8RZ
> [14] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DKT8C6
> [15] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DH4GT2
> [16] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DEFKRT
> [17] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DKZ3AC
> [18] mailto:divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com
> [19] http://www.divyanshurawat.me/
> [20] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DCV8RZ
> [21] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DKT8C6
> [22] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DH4GT2
> [23] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DEFKRT
> [24] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DKZ3AC
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