<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>On 15 Dec 2011, at 21:55, Samuel Klein <<a href="mailto:sj@laptop.org">sj@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>* unmaintained or dormantly-maintained but working activities<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This one is quite a tough one, activities are distributed across a seemingly grey continuum, from non-responding authors, to authors who release in time with the Sugar release schedules.</div><div><br></div><div>The term 'working' also needs careful definition given the wide variety of distros and hardware that Sugar can be run under (testing platform usually at the discretion of the maintainer). This alone would be quite a large matrix. With an Activity Team hat on, we should focus on polishing and maintaining the core of the known quality learning activities, to act as leading lights, and encouraging other developers to follow where there time allows. The whole 'let a thousand flowers bloom' metaphor unfortunately leads to the vast majority being left to compost.</div><div><br></div><div>--Gary</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>* activities that can be freely distributed but are not [confirmed to be] under a free-software license<br>
* links to activities that are freely available online (somewhere) but may not be freely distributable (from an aslo server)<br><br>Excluding or obfuscating popular activities only makes ASLO a less handy service.<br><br>
At any rate, at the point where the ASLO software says to an uploader "that file already exists in our databsae" it should be able to show that person the metadata related to the file: who has uploaded it, why it is not visible, &c.<br>
<br>SJ<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Gary Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garycmartin@googlemail.com">garycmartin@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>But I don't think is a good idea add a activity without a maintainer.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>+1</div><div><br></div><div>Activities without maintainers seem like a spiral to the bottom of the quality bucket <span>- I'd personally not want to recommend the ASLO site to a teacher if we were knowingly promoting and uploading unmaintained activities. As an Open Source license (required by ASLO) allows anyone to potentially <span>pick up maintenance, perhaps ASLO could be tweaked to hide all activities without a confirmed, named, maintainer by default?</span></span></div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>--Gary</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Gonzalo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@somosazucar.org" target="_blank">sebastian@somosazucar.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Actually if the license permits it, there isnt a necessity to await
confirmation by original author, although it would be nice to ask,
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It's ok uploading those to aslo, if they
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