[Systems] API for activities.sugarlabs.org?

[David Farning]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:26:30PM -0300, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 12:17 -0200, Pablo Flores wrote:
> >
> > > I liked the idea of creating a specific locale for Uruguay. Even
> > > better if we can use a virtual host in the domain ceibaljam.org.
>
> I'm afraid I wasn't clear, I meant that if user opnes ASLO from es_UY
> locale, ASLO will pick it up and change current locale to es_UY (see
> "Other languages" combobox at the bottom of main page) and e.g. will
> show only comments only from es_UY people.
>
> > For the locale, I guess alsroot can add es_UY easily.
> >
> > For the virtual host, just set activities.ceibaljam.org as a CNAME
> > pointing to sunjammer.sugarlabs.org. I'll do the rest in Apache.
> >
> >
> > > In this way, we could use a different theme and have separate reviews.
> > > Question: would the average rating be based in only our locale
> > > reviews? That would be the best...
>
> so, it is impissible to have separate theming for es_UY
>
> > I don't know if it is easy or possible to customize the css or the logo
> > based on the virtual host. It might require some coding work in the
> > Remora codebase.
>
> but we can create separate web node particular for Uruguay
> e.g. we have two web nodes that use the same MySQL db and directories
> with activity bundles. So we can just have 3rd web node but with Uruguay
> theming applied and w/ some PHP hacks to show comments/strings only from
> es_UY people.
>

I am _very_ hestant about agreeing to county/deployment specific
modifications.  They will quickly turn into a scalability and maintenance
nightmare.  The strength of the open source development model and sugar labs
is their ability to create a common point from which others can build.

+1 to single sign-on
+1 to ability to sort comments/reviews based on a users member group of
access locale
-1 to custom themes until they can be abstracted to the point that new
themes can be implemented without ASLO admin attention.


david


> > If you would like to experiment, we could give you access to sunjammer.
> > We already have two sandboxes where developers can work on things like
> > this without disrupting the production service:
> >
> >  http://activities-testing.sugarlabs.org
> >  http://activities-devel.sugarlabs.org
> >
> > If it turns out that these sandboxes are in use by other aslo
> > maintainers, we can easily create a new one specifically for you.
> > Whoever is going to perform this work should request a shell account:
> >
> >   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sysadmin/Shell_account_request
> >
> > Some PHP and web application development experience would be needed.
> > Aleksey Lim, the primary ASLO hacker, could provide guidance along with
> > David Farning and a few others who are familiar with the Remora
> > codebase.
> >
> > We can coordinate on IRC in the #sugar channel. My nickname is "bernie"
> > and Aleksey is known as alsroot. Aleksey lives in Siberia, but his
> > working timezone is shifted more towards central Europe :-)
> >
> >
> > > We would have our activities separate from others by using a
> > > "ceibalJAM" collection, having the chance of having feeds and jump
> > > easily to other Sugar activities downloads. Sounds great!
>
> it could be not only collections but all featured activities (Recommended
> section on main page) could be setup only for es_UY.
>
> > Yeah, I guess this would be easy to do. Aleksey?
> >
> > >
> > > So the biggest challenge seems to be making a single sign on, or at
> > > least letting the users from our portal to be signed in automatically
> > > in ASLO. How can we help you for that?
> >
> > I'm not familiar enough with the code to give a good technical advice.
> > Depending how much engineering work are you willing to put into it, we
> > could implement OpenID support or just synchronize the user accounts
> > from Drupal with a cron job.
>
> well, we have strong intension to use ASLO for Uruguay, issue will be
> resolved somehow
>
> > If you want to have a preliminary look, our current code can be
> > downloaded with git from here:
> >
> >   http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/slo-activities/repos/mainline
> >
> >
> > Some useful documentation is available in the Sugar Labs wiki:
> >
> >   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library
> >   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Devel
> >   http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Library/Design
>
> about theming, in git repo there are several branches
>
>    master, ASLO patches w/o any custom theming
>    master-theme, only theming patches
>
> e.g. on http://activities-devel.sugarlabs.org/
> you can see original AMO theme in comparing with sugarized one on
> http://activities.sugarlabs.org/
>
> --
> Aleksey
>
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