<div dir="ltr">Added both gsettings and activity unit test tasks to the table. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 9 November 2013 01:34, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Daniel Narvaez <<a href="mailto:dwnarvaez@gmail.com">dwnarvaez@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On 8 November 2013 13:10, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> >> Classmate and Classmate variants are already quick wide spread in some >> deployments, e.g., Argentina > > > I wonder if we should try to get some classmates in the hands of Sugar Labs > community members. It seems like the most solid hardware option we have for > deployments at the moment. </div>I'll look into it. <div><div class="h5"> > >> >> > * Chromebook >> >> At least one deployment is looking at this option. >> > > Looking forward to know how this goes :) > > >> >> > >> > Another couple more for community evaluation (evaluation, testing, >> > marketing) >> > >> > * Linux compatible ARM boards >> > * Virtualbox >> >> SoaS is our current offering for Virtualbox (As you pointed out in a >> previous thread, it is a two-step process to install. In my >> experience, that is 1 too many for our audience. Something we may be >> able to address by approaching some of the VM suppliers.) > > > We are crossing threads here but... I think it would be great to have a > single installer but (without having tried it!) the current installation > process doesn't seem terribly bad. I feel that documenting it better and > turning it into the first thing you see when you click "downloads" could go > a long way. > >> >> > - R&D resources >> > >> > I feel balance with addressing existing deployments needs is not a >> > question >> > Sugar Labs can or should answer. We should encourage and support both, >> > it's >> > up to companies and volunteers involved to see how much of either they >> > could >> > or should be doing. >> >> +1 >> >> That said, the discipline you have imparted on us regarding unit tests >> is a step that the community can take. Maybe one of our priorities >> should be to dust off some basic automatic testing for activities as >> well. OLPC used to have such a system in place. >> > > Of course I'm all for more unit tests :) > > The buildbot is already trying to start and close activities on every build > but it would be great if people wrote more comprehensive unit and UI tests, > similarly to what we are doing in the shell. Get them to run into > sugar-build/buildbot would be trivial... </div></div>Maybe we can work on an example for an activity and then propagate (via GCI). <div class="im"> > >> >> > >> > We are not a company, we have no resources to allocate. But there are >> > lots >> > of concrete things we can do to encourage people to allocate them. I'm >> > really glad to see that Activity Central figured out how to devote >> > resources >> > to R&D. I hope you will be able to keep it up and more people will >> > follow >> > that example. We can leverage initiatives like Google Code. We can try >> > crowd >> > funding. We can apply for grants, as we have been doing sometimes >> > successfully. We can keep lowering the barriers for volunteers, we have >> > been >> > making great progress on that. We can finally solve the un-marketability >> > issue, attracting attention and energies and hence hopefully >> > contributions. >> >> Google Code In starts on Nov. 18. But we can keep adding tasks over >> the course of the contest. Please don't be shy about suggesting tasks. >> And we could also use a few more mentors. > > > I don't think I'm able to commit to be an "official" mentor but, as usual, > I'll be answering as many questions as possible in irc/mailing lists when I > am around. > > Sort of thinking to puth GConf -> GSettings on the list... And Wayland > support but that's probably too complex for GCI. </div>GConf to GSettings is definitely GCI caliber introductory task worthy. <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Daniel Narvaez </div>