[Sugar-devel] Progress Update (Port Sugar and core activities to Python3) : 28th May 2020

[Saumya Mishra]

Thanks James. I probably was a little confused before. I will share a work
plan very soon.

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:00 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Thanks Saumya.
>
> Have you a project plan you can share?  While your GSoC proposal
> contained a plan, we did not publish the proposals this year, and
> there are likely to be changes to the plan as you learn more detail.
>
> You've said "Review the source code of sugar after 0.112 is released".
> I'm worried that isn't exactly what I had expected.  I've seen you
> have been reviewing the current sugar code.  Perhaps I did a bad job
> of explaining it.
>
> Our project idea
>
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2020.md#port-sugar-and-core-activities-to-python-3
> may be a bit difficult to parse, so I'll take the first item on the
> list and expand it for you.
>
> "Review the Sugar source code changes since 0.112 that were made for
> porting to Python 3,"
>
> 0.  consider the set of repositories sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3,
> sugar-artwork, sugar-toolkit-gtk3, and each of the Fructose "core"
> activity repositories,
>
> 1.  in each repository, list the set of _commits_ after the date of
> the 0.112 tag, (not the source code of the master branch, but the
> commits that led to it),
>
> 2.  exclude the commits that were not made for porting to Python 3,
>
> 3.  review the commits for correctness using our "Guide for Reviewers"
> and our "Python 3 Porting Guide"; in particular whether the commits
> are (a) a complete port to Python 3, (or Six in the toolkit), and (b)
> adequately tested,
>
> The discovery that led to this project idea was that despite porting
> to Python 3 we have seen some regressions that suggest that our
> porting was imprecise or hasty.
>
> The next point in the project idea recognises that we didn't have a
> good method of testing.
>
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 11:29:05AM +0530, Saumya Mishra wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > The work I have done so far and I am going to do next-
> >
> > Review the source code of sugar after 0.112 is released, Test every
> patch and
> > make changes wherever needed. Change I have made so far is mainly
> related to
> > PEP 8 fixes however there are some fixMe comments on various places I am
> > planning to work next on them as well as in Sugar - text clipping cannot
> get
> > removed , the feature shows some errors,
> > [1]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/856 working on this. The
> sugar has
> > currently 39 issues and 16 pull requests open, Some of the pull requests
> have
> > significantly less amount of work required in order to get them merged.
> My work
> > will be to review all of them and make changes after testing my work.
> >
> > Work on Port of telepathy to TelepathyGLib - I first decided to work on
> all the
> > activities , which share common code with Turtle-Art as a rebasing has
> to be
> > done first. I found 4 activities related activity-turtle-flags,
> > AmazonasTortuga, activity-turtle confusion, amazonas-activity .
> Turtle-Art has
> > ported to TelepathyGLib before.
> >
> > Work on infoslicer activity , Port to Python3 and from sgmllib to
> html.parser
> > as sgmllib is dropped in python3 and HTMLParser class is designed as a
> base
> > class and it extends SGMLParser class defined in module sgmllib. Port
> has done
> > , but activity requires testing .
> >
> > VncLauncher - activity is ported along with required x11vnc distro
> specific
> > support. However [2]@James Cameron  and I thought about a slight
> modification ,
> > as users of activity are teachers, and it is not necessary that they
> will be
> > familiar with use of IP addresses, Next thing is to try registering an
> mdns
> > name on the network and let the VNC client use that.
> >
> > I also had a meeting with James on IRC on 25th May 2020.
> >
> > Thanks for reading , Suggestions are welcomed.
> >
> > Saumya Mishra
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/856
> > [2] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
>
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>
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