[Sugar-devel] Contributing through GSOC

[shaansubbaiah.cs18 at bmsce.ac.in]

 Hi James,
I have tried the other activities and the only the text editor has this issue. I'll download the package source and find out the issue if possible.
BestShaan

    On Monday, March 9, 2020, 3:32:38 AM GMT+5:30, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:  
 
 Thanks Shaan.

In the context of 'Debian advocacy for Sugar' project idea, the
testing is not testing of Sugar, but is testing;

- of Debian experimental release packages,

- of Debian testing release packages,

- of Debian stable release packages,

- of the above in combination with Sugar, Toolkit, activities, and all
  dependencies (such as GTK, Telepathy, and so on),

- of rebuilding with Sugar Live Build,

We might call this integration testing rather than unit testing.  What
is being tested is the work by integrators, or Debian developers.  It
requires knowledge and experience to discern the difference between
problems whose cause is in Sugar, and problems caused by other
packages such as GTK and Telepathy.

Included in the tests should be the major features of the application,
and the collaboration between multiple network instances.

Thanks for the video of moving the Write activity over the display.
Fascinating.  I can reproduce it.  Are any other activities affected?
Can you fix it?

On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 09:37:25AM -0700, shaansubbaiah.cs18 wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> Regarding the 'Debian advocacy for Sugar' task, I'm not sure how to go about
> testing. Right now I'm just checking the console for errors upon install,
> trying out all the settings and activities. I would like to know if there is a
> more structured approach. All my searches online return results of testing the
> Debian OS package or Installion of packages.
> Request you to point me in the right direction.
> 
> Also, while testing your Ubuntu package I stumbled upon something I'm not sure
> is an issue or feature. I'm able to drag the text editor activity around the
> screen. This seems useful if one were to copy text displayed in the previous
> screen(But it's just the launcher) so not sure about it. I believe Sugar's UI
> prevents overlapping windows, so this is an issue? This happens only in the
> text editor app.
> Video-( [1]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eoAcAOxCYLuChqF_pAF8boOMgeDWJzmz/
> view?usp=sharing )
> 
> Thanks,
> Shaan
> 
>    On 07-Mar-2020 at 6:21 am, James Cameron <[2]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>    Welcome Shaan.  Thanks for your interest.
> 
>    Please do discuss your application ideas with us, and get involved.
> 
>    The 'Debian advocacy for Sugar' project idea includes testing and then
> 
>    fixing bugs in Debian packages of Sugar and activities, or any other
> 
>    Debian packages they depend on.  The project idea requires working
> 
>    with two communities; Sugar Labs and Debian.  My estimate is that this
> 
>    will easily cover the 12 weeks of full-time work, and would be a
> 
>    never-ending task, with always something to do better.  It will be
> 
>    difficult to avoid getting bogged down in detail.  A key deficiency
> 
>    is that Debian packages for Sugar after the latest Debian stable
> 
>    release do not allow use of Sugar.  No release date is yet set for
> 
>    Debian 11 Bullseye, but Ubuntu does use the Debian Testing packages,
> 
>    and this is why Ubuntu 20.04 is unlikely to include Sugar.  An outcome
> 
>    of the project idea is that Ubuntu 20.10 or 21.04 may include Sugar
> 
>    once more.
> 
>    Thanks for testing my Ubuntu 20.04 packages.  My packages demonstrate
> 
>    that Sugar can be packaged in a way that works, but the packages do
> 
>    not meet Debian or Ubuntu standards, and are difficult to use because
> 
>    a separate package archive must be added.
> 
>    You can find a tutorial for using Sugar on [3]https://help.sugarlabs.org/
> 
>    I'll not comment about 'Sugarizer game activity pack', best is for you
> 
>    to contact Lionel Llaske about it.
> 
>    On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 08:35:18PM +0000, [4]shaansubbaiah.cs18 at bmsce.ac.in wrote:
> 
>    > Hello everyone,
> 
>    > I'm Shaan Subbaiah, a 2nd year CSE undergrad interested in contributing towards
> 
>    > SugarLabs through GSoC. I would like to work on the task 'Debian advocacy for
> 
>    > Sugar'.
> 
>    > I use Linux (Manjaro) on a daily basis but this would be the first time I would
> 
>    > be testing software packages. I'm not sure if the task would span the 3 months
> 
>    > alotted by GSOC, I'd be very happy to work on the 'Game Activity Pack' task if
> 
>    > time permits as I have experience in Web Dev.
> 
>    >
> 
>    > Just installed Ubuntu FocalFossa/ 20.04 (6 Mar) on KVM, followed instructions
> 
>    > to install sucrose from here([5]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/
> 
>    > 2020-February/057763.html).
> 
>    > (Also, for anyone else following the same steps on KVM, switching the graphics
> 
>    > adapter to 'virtio' from 'qxl' will prevent issues when using the sugar or
> 
>    > ubuntu non wayland options while loggin in.)
> 
>    >
> 
>    > Apart from what I believe are small ui issues like text moving when using the
> 
>    > slider upon setting age, calculator moving out of the screen upon clicking the
> 
>    > buttons on the toolbar, I have found no issues so far. There are no navigation
> 
>    > icons unlike the online sugarizer, the only way to switch activites is using
> 
>    > the function keys. There was no tutorial/ popup on setup and I couldn't exit
> 
>    > the Journal.
> 
>    >
> 
>    > I would like you to guide me in the right direction regarding the testing
> 
>    > process.
> 
>    > Thankyou
> 
>    >
> 
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> References:
> 
> [1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eoAcAOxCYLuChqF_pAF8boOMgeDWJzmz/view?usp=sharing
> [2] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [3] https://help.sugarlabs.org/
> [4] mailto:shaansubbaiah.cs18 at bmsce.ac.in
> [5] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/
> [6] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [7] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> [8] http://quozl.netrek.org/

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