[Sugar-devel] GSoC'21 draft proposal for 'Improve and maintain 15 sugar activities'

[Chihurumnaya Ibiam]

I don't think you're biting more than you can chew as sometimes we can't
really say how long it'll take
to fix a problem unless one starts working on it.

The previous attempts at porting an activity can be a good starting point
for you as you can complete
the PR, nothing wrong with that, the only activity in the list that I think
should be removed is followmeButia
except you have the resources to test it on bare metal.

-- 

Ibiam Chihurumnaya
ibiam at sugarlabs.org



On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 2:43 PM Sourabha G <sourabha.project at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback, glad you appreciate my teaching yoga classes to
>>> kids :)
>>> By "Add help activity" I mean, I'd add Help for the selected activities (
>>> Triples <https://github.com/sugarlabs/triples>, cardsort
>>> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/cardsort>, iq-activity
>>> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/iq-activity> and recall
>>> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/recall>) by writing help pages to them in
>>> the help-activity repository.
>>> By "Contribute to the documentation" I mean,
>>>  a. Update the Readme, activity documentation in help-activity
>>> repository according to the changes made in the activity.
>>>  b. Update any documentation that might ease the new contributors for
>>> better understanding.
>>> By "Fix issues that are required for an activity to be released" I mean,
>>> there are few issues that require it to be fixed (other than feature
>>> addition and port to GTK+ 3) inorder to make a new release of the activity
>>> like #6 <https://github.com/sugarlabs/triples/issues/6> in triples
>>> activity, #9 <https://github.com/sugarlabs/cardsort/issues/9> in
>>> cardsort, #12 <https://github.com/sugarlabs/turtlepond/pull/12> in
>>> turtlepond activity.
>>> Selected activities:
>>> A) To add basic game design features and activity specific features
>>> (game design features are mentioned in draft proposal)
>>>  1. Triples <https://github.com/sugarlabs/triples> : This activity has
>>> only one level. Hence, I'll add levels and other basic game design features.
>>>  2. cardsort <https://github.com/sugarlabs/cardsort> : This activity
>>> already has levels.Hence I will add other basic game design features.
>>>  3. iq-activity <https://github.com/sugarlabs/iq-activity> : This
>>> activity seems to have only one level. Hence I'd add multiple levels and
>>> other basic game design features.
>>>  4. recall <https://github.com/sugarlabs/recall> : This activity
>>> already has various levels. Hence I'd like to add basic game design
>>> features. Also, it is a little hard to figure out the place of the
>>> instruction about what image to recall each time. I'd like to enhance the
>>> UX by placing the instruction in an intuitive place.
>>> 5. wordcloud <https://github.com/sugarlabs/wordcloud/>: As mentioned in
>>> #2 <https://github.com/sugarlabs/wordcloud/issues/2>, I think it would
>>> make more sense if the input text was split by newlines than by words.
>>> Also, as mentioned in #10
>>> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/wordcloud/issues/10>, adding support for
>>> emoji and special characters would be fun.
>>>  6. turtlepond <https://github.com/sugarlabs/turtlepond> : This
>>> activity has only 3 puzzles (3 levels). I think it adding basic game design
>>> and more levels to this would enable mastering this kind of logical
>>> thinking and make it more fun.
>>>  7.classify-cats <https://github.com/sugarlabs/classify-cats> :,The
>>> logic of the game is to classify cats on the basis of "odd"  and "even"
>>> number of cats. Keeping this as level 1, multiple levels can be added
>>> varying the criteria to classify the cats. Criteria might be "multiple of X
>>> " and "not a multiple of X" . This feature would be added along with the
>>> basic game design features.
>>> B) To add original design features:
>>>  8. chat <https://github.com/sugarlabs/chat> : I'd like to work on the
>>> issue #17 <https://github.com/sugarlabs/chat/issues/17>.
>>>  9. imageviewer-activity
>>> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/imageviewer-activity>: It would be handy
>>> to add basic image editing features such as crop and filters to this
>>> activity.
>>>  10. wikipedia-activity
>>> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/wikipedia-activity>: This activity has a
>>> very strong pedagogical value, I'm enthusiastic to bring this to use. But
>>> I'm not sure how to update it. A checklist of what work needs to be done to
>>> update this would be helpful.
>>> C) To port to GTK+ 3 (Tentative list as mentioned in draft proposal)
>>> Given the past attempts on porting these activities, I'm not sure if
>>> it's right to choose these activities for porting to GTK+ 3 as a part of
>>> GSoC. Thoughts on this from the mentors would be helpful.
>>>  11. compress-activity <https://github.com/sugarlabs/compress-activity>
>>>  12. Bounce activity <https://github.com/sugarlabs/Bounce>
>>>  13. followmeButia activit <https://github.com/sugarlabs/followmeButia>
>>>
>>> 14. Arithmetic activity <https://github.com/sugarlabs/arithmetic>
>>> 15. Labyrinth activity <https://github.com/sugarlabs/labyrinth-activity>
>>>  Kindly let me know the desirability and the relevance of the features I
>>> plan to add. Also, Based on your experience and judgment, kindly let me
>>> know if I'm biting more than I could chew for the time constraint of GSoC.
>>> I will select the activities accordingly :)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sourabha G.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 11:02 PM Chihurumnaya Ibiam <ibiam at sugarlabs.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Sourabha,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the draft, a few comments;
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean by "Add help activity" - second item in the Honey part
>>>> -?
>>>> When you say "Contribute to the documentation", could you be a bit more
>>>> specific? What documentation do you intend to contribute to?
>>>> The fifth item "Fix issues that are required for an activity to be
>>>> released" seems vague,
>>>> what issues are you referring to here and in what activities?
>>>>
>>>> You've selected less that 15 activities as stated by the project idea,
>>>> we definitely can talk about
>>>> the activities you'd want to work on.
>>>>
>>>> I like the fact that you teach yoga classes to kids, I think that's
>>>> amazing.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Ibiam Chihurumnaya
>>>> ibiam at sugarlabs.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 9:45 AM Sourabha G <sourabha.project at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is my draft proposal for the 'Improve and maintain 15 sugar
>>>>> activities' project as a part of GSoC-20201. Thoughts and suggestions are
>>>>> appreciated :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Sourabha G
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