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

[Jui Pradhan]

Hi Sourabha,
                    Thanks for the updated draft proposal. I have few
comments:
- I read the thread where you explained the selected activities and
activity-specific features you would like to add. It would be great if you
could add the explanations from your email in the proposal. For example, in
Recall I found the email explanation more clear than the one added in the
proposal. In addition to that, I feel explanations like the one you gave
for image-viewer activity should definitely be there in your proposal (by
that I mean just by reading the draft proposal, its not clear which image
editing tools you intend to add).
- Most of the activities that involve a port to Gtk+3 also require porting
to python3. (Activities like: Bounce, Compress, labyrinth, etc), if you
feel you can work on port to python3 please feel free to add it to your
proposal
- For the activity Arithmetic, there is an open PR for porting to Gtk+3 and
python3, you may continue work on the same PR if you find that convenient.
- The tools and technologies mentioned OpenCV. Did you find an activity
that uses it? I would love to have a look.
- I really liked your idea of adding a timestamp to messages in the chat
activity!

Also, I would love to hear about the activities you tested by letting the
students use them. :)

Thanks.
Regards,

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:54 AM Sourabha G <sourabha.project at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, I will work on foodforce2-activity
> <https://github.com/sugarlabs/foodforce2-activity> instead of
> followmeButia activity. It seems a few things weren't clearly mentioned in
> the draft proposal, I have updated the draft proposal as per your
> suggestions. Any critical comments and thoughts are welcome.
>
>
> On Fri, 9 Apr, 2021, 10:11 am Chihurumnaya Ibiam, <ibiam at sugarlabs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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Jui Pradhan
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