[Sugar-devel] GSoC Project: Migration of Activities wiki-pages to GitHub
Rudra Sadhu
rdrsadhu at gmail.com
Tue May 8 05:13:14 EDT 2018
I realise I've not explained the project as well as I could/should have.
This blog post[1] is an attempt to better define the same.
We can discuss more about this in the sugar-devel meeting today, if
required.
Regards,
Rudra Sadhu
[1] : https://rdrsadhu.github.io/blog/gsoc2018/2018-05-08-project-details/
On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 4:10 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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/cont
> ributing.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/
> >
> > --
> >
> > Divyanshu Rawat / Software Developer
> > [11]divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com / +41 779807546 / +91
> 8003856439
> >
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> >
> > GSOC Mentor 2018 at Sugalabs, GCI 2017 Mentor at Sugar
> Labs
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> > [12]www.divyanshurawat.me
> >
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> > Overflow [s] [17]Behance [s]
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> > --
> >
> > Divyanshu Rawat / Software Developer
> > [18]divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com / +41 779807546 / +91
> 8003856439
> >
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> >
> > GSOC Mentor 2018 at Sugalabs, GCI 2017 Mentor at Sugar Labs
> > Stanford Scholar Initiative, Harvard Innovation Labs,
> > UnternehmerTUM GmbH
> > [19]www.divyanshurawat.me
> >
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> >
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> > References:
> >
> > [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_DA
> emGOcw8DIqjBUADRRzo/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
> > [25] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [26] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> > [27] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [28] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> > [29] http://www.sugarlabs.org/
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