[Sugar-devel] Meeting #2 of the project Setting up activity server.

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 10:00 PM Tony Anderson <tony at olenepal.org> wrote:

> Hi, Walter
>
> Is there a link to a description of the proposed new server? I assume that
> what you mean is that a new physical server will become host to ASLO.
> Naturally, I am much more interested in the capabilities of the service
> than the server.
>
I am referring to https://aslo3-devel.sugarlabs.org (I see James answered
you while I was typing this.)


> It is really hard for me to see any connection between activity.info and
> an activity service (which supplies information about activities and
> downloads the bundle  on request).I assume these consistency tests are made
> before a new activity version is released and is part of the process of
> creating a github repository.
>

The database for ASLO3 is derived from the activity.info files. But those
data need cleaning up. This is why we have not gone live with the new
server.

> The python script can use a loop on the list of bundles:
>
> for activity in activities:
>
>      #use zipfile to read the activity.info file
>
>      #count or test for any property
>
>      #report (e.g. print ) result of test by activity
>
> #report summary of loop execution
>
>
> I do not have any idea of what you are referring to by a screenshot. I
> certainly hope there is no intent to add a screenshot to an activity
> bundle. It may be fun to revel in storage available on a PC but the
> overwhelming number of our users have XO laptops with very limited storage.
> This is similar to the trend to make Sugar more dependent on the internet.
> For example, sudo apt-get install sucrose is difficult to accomplish in a
> room with 40 laptops and no internet, the current situation in Rwanda with
> the Positivo laptop.
>

We use screenshots in the activity portal. They need not be included in the
bundles.

>
> Tony
>
> On Monday, 07 May, 2018 09:35 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
>
> This particular discussion was about activity.info because the student is
> working on getting the activity server on line and cleaning up the
> activity.info files is an essential step.
>
>> I interpret https://github.com/sugar-activities as an attempt to provide
>> a separate place for Sugar activity repositories based on
>> download.sugarlabs.org/activities. The number of activities mentioned is
>> consistent with the current content of ASLO. (see
>> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/activities/)
>>
>
> Yes. We have an on-going effort to migrate to a new activity server which
> is both easier to maintain and a richer experience for our users.
>
>> A simple python script can process the activity.info in activity bundles
>> very quickly. Simply download every activity bundle and then use import
>> zipfile to read the activity.info file and check it for whatever is
>> interesting. I generally use ls -1 *.xo > list to create a file. The python
>> script can easily form a list of activities from this file.
>>
>
> We are concerned about a number of inconsistencies with the data,
> including license, summary, screen shots, etc.
>
>
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