[Sugar-devel] Ideal futures for the "I Know" Sugar activities

[Rahul Bothra]

I'd suggest we should separate out the data and control logic of the
activities, and ship a new generic activity (say "IKnowCountries").
The flow would be,
 * Users download the activity and launch it,
 * User sees a list of all countries for which the data is maintained
 * User clicks on one of the countries,
 * The rest of the flow will be similar as running any activity now


If users prefer having different activities for the set of countries they
are interested in, then
 * Maintain a generic activity "IKnowCountries" on GitHub, having data of
all the countries currently maintained
 * While releasing an activity (say IKnowX), remove data for all countries
except X
The downsides to this are,
 * GitHub release tags can't be used
 * More work while releasing


On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:08 AM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Some recent activity maintenance has been too focused.  ;-)
>
> Our "I Know" or "Conozco" series of activities, except for I Know My
> ABCs, are 2D map displays for learning relative positions of
> geographic and geopolitical features.
>
> On GitHub we have;
>
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowAmerica
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowPeru
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowSriLanka
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowUruguay
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowMadagascar
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowRwanda
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowIndia
>
> On Gitorious we have some of the above plus;
>
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/conozco-mexico
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/conozco-paraguay
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/conozco-nicaragua
>
> An "Editor" activity is for making new instances of the activity.
>
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowEditor
>
> Each of the repositories is in some state of disrepair or lag.
>
> A plan may be;
>
> 1.  if not yet present, add the repository to GitHub, by creating a
> new repository, pulling from the Gitorious repository, and then
> pushing,
>
> 2.  add git tags to correspond to bundles on activities.sugarlabs.org,
> and mirror sites,
>
> 3.  try to use common code across the set of activities,
>
> 4.  port to GTK 3, and Sugargame v1.2,
>
> 5.  remove use of sys.exit in favour of the Sugargame v1.2 exit method,
>
> 6.  port to Python 3, and Sugargame v1.3,
>
> 7.  update translations from translate.sugarlabs.org,
>
> 8.  release bundles.
>
> Comments?
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:08 AM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Some recent activity maintenance has been too focused.  ;-)
>
> Our "I Know" or "Conozco" series of activities, except for I Know My
> ABCs, are 2D map displays for learning relative positions of
> geographic and geopolitical features.
>
> On GitHub we have;
>
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowAmerica
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowPeru
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowSriLanka
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowUruguay
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowMadagascar
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowRwanda
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowIndia
>
> On Gitorious we have some of the above plus;
>
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/conozco-mexico
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/conozco-paraguay
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/conozco-nicaragua
>
> An "Editor" activity is for making new instances of the activity.
>
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/iknowEditor
>
> Each of the repositories is in some state of disrepair or lag.
>
> A plan may be;
>
> 1.  if not yet present, add the repository to GitHub, by creating a
> new repository, pulling from the Gitorious repository, and then
> pushing,
>
> 2.  add git tags to correspond to bundles on activities.sugarlabs.org,
> and mirror sites,
>
> 3.  try to use common code across the set of activities,
>
> 4.  port to GTK 3, and Sugargame v1.2,
>
> 5.  remove use of sys.exit in favour of the Sugargame v1.2 exit method,
>
> 6.  port to Python 3, and Sugargame v1.3,
>
> 7.  update translations from translate.sugarlabs.org,
>
> 8.  release bundles.
>
> Comments?
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
> _______________________________________________
> Sugar-devel mailing list
> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>
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