[Sugar-devel] Most Popular Activity Stats

[Ryan Van]

This is great. I can take my time to look through them and look for issues
/ features that I could potentially work on and get a better grasp of sugar
as a whole. Thanks.
- Made sure to reply all now!

On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 11:13 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Afraid not.  We don't have reliable statistics.
>
> Here's a possible prioritisation though;
>
>
> 1.  the Sugarizer activities,
>
> - quantity 46,
>
> - all written in JavaScript,
>
> - are bundled with Sugarizer,
>
> - are in the Sugarizer repository in the directory "activities",
>   branch "dev",
>
>
> 2.  the Sugar Fructose activity set,
>
> - quantity 11, (Browse, Calculate, Chat, Image Viewer, Jukebox, Log,
>   Pippy, Read, Terminal, Turtle Art, Write),
>
> - all written in Python,
>
> - each is in a separate GitHub repository,
>
> - tar.bz2 files
>   https://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/fructose/
>
> - are maintained in synchronisation with Sugar releases,
>
>
> 3.  the Sugar Honey activity set,
>
> - quantity 83, (Abacus, AmazonasTortuga, AnalyzeJournal, Bounce,
>   BulletinBoard, Cardsort, CartoonBuilder, Chart, Clock, ColorDeducto,
>   Colors, CookieSearch, Deducto, Develop, Dimensions, Distance,
>   Erikos, Finance, Flip, FlipSticks, FollowMe, FotoToon,
>   FractionBounce, GCompris, GeoGebra, GetBooks, GetIABooks, Gnuchess,
>   Help, IRC, Implode, InfoSlicer, JokeMachine, Labyrinth, LetterMatch,
>   Letters, LocoSugar, Maze, Measure, Memorize, Moon, MusicKeyboard,
>   Napier, Numbers, Nutrition, Paint, Paths, PeriodicTable, Physics,
>   Poll, Portfolio, Pukllanapac, ReadETexts, Recall, Record,
>   Reflection, Ruler, SimpleEnglishWikipedia, SliderPuzzle, Sliderule,
>   Snow, SocialCalc, Speak, Spirolaterals, StarChart, StopWatch, Story,
>   StoryBuilder, TamTam*, Triples, TurtleArtMini, TurtleConfusion,
>   TurtlePond, TypingTurtle, ViewSlides, Visualmatch, Words, Yupana,
>   xoEditor)
>
> - most written in Python,
>
> - most are in a separate GitHub repository,
>
> - some (e.g. TamTam*) are multiple activity repositories,
>
> - some (e.g. TurtleArt derivatives) have been branches of
>   repositories,
>
> - tar.bz2 files
>   https://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/
>
> - many are maintained,
>
>
> Then there are the packaged collections; Fedora, Debian, and OLPC OS.
>
>
> 4.  the Fedora packaged activities,
>
> - quantity between 10 and 30 (I've not checked lately),
>
> - are included in the Sugar on a Stick release when Fedora does a
>   release,
>
> - package name pattern is sugar-NAME where NAME is the shortened
>   activity name,
>
>
> 5.  the Debian packaged activities,
>
> - quantity 12, (the Fructose set, plus IRC and Memorize),
>
> - package name pattern is sugar-NAME-activity,
>
>
> 6.  the OLPC OS 13.2.x bundled activities,
>
> - quantity 32, (Browse-157.5, Calculate-45.1, Chat-85.1, Clock-21,
>   Distance-36, GetBooks-19, Help-20.1, ImageViewer-64.1, Implode-19.1,
>   Jukebox-34, Log-40.1, Maze-28.2, Measure-53.1, Memorize-55.1,
>   Moon-18.1, MusicKeyboard-8.10, Paint-69, Physics-34, Pippy-72.3,
>   Read-118.2, Record-104, Scratch-25, SimpleEnglishWikipedia-37.1,
>   Speak-52.1, StopWatch-20.2, TamTamEdit-68, TamTamJam-68,
>   TamTamMini-68, TamTamSynthLab-68, Terminal-46.2, TurtleBlocks-218,
>   Write-100),
>
> - restricted to Python 2, tested on Fedora 18,
>
> - maintained by me as separate branches in the same repositories as
>   the Fructose or Honey set, with patches backported from the master
>   branches,
>
> - listed on wiki.laptop.org,
>
>
> 7.  the OLPC OS 18.04 bundled activities,
>
> - quantity 38, (Abacus, Browse, Calculate, Chart, Chat, Clock,
>   Develop, Finance, Find Words, Fototoon, Fraction Bounce, Gears, Get
>   Books, Help, Image Viewer, Implode, Jukebox, Letters, Log, Maze,
>   Measure, Memorize, Moon, Music Keyboard, Paint, Physics, Pippy,
>   Poll, Portfolio, Read, Record, Wikipedia, Speak, Stopwatch, Story,
>   Terminal, Words, and Write),
>
> - restricted to Python 2,
>
> - maintained by me as separate branches in the same repositories as
>   the Fructose or Honey set,
>
> - packaged by me in .deb format for updates using APT,
>
>
> 8.  the OLPC OS 20.04 bundled activities,
>
> - same as above, less three activities that are not yet ported to
>   Python 3; (Get Books, Help, and Wikipedia),
>
>
>
> Then there are the download counters from activities.sugarlabs.org;
>
> - we're not sure how reliable the counters are,
>
> - the site is only used for Python 2 activities.
>
>
> It is a mess.  Hope that helps.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 09:36:47PM -0700, Ryan Van wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I was wondering if we had some statistics on the most popular / used
> > activities. I am trying to look into implementing features / fixing
> > issues for activities for GSoC (and in general) and want to make
> > sure what I'm working on has a greater impact rather than focusing
> > on smaller less used activities.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ryan
>
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>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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