[Systems] API for activities.sugarlabs.org?

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:03:13PM +0000, Aleksey Lim 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.
>
> So, the question is, should ASLO be hacked to provide some only Uruguay
> related workflows like:
>
> * hide non es_UY stuff

Do we really want to do that? We would want to feature es_UY, but I
cannot imagine we would want to exclude access to non es_UY
activities.

-walter

> * ...
>
> or just use existed methods when we can:
>
> * have custom Uruguay theme
> * provide special Recommended/featured activities for es_UY
> * having "Uruguay activities" like collections
> * auto translate activity strings based of po files from .xo bundles
>
>> > 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
>
> s/we have/if we have/ :)
>
>> > 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
>
> --
> Aleksey
>



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Walter Bender
Sugar Labs
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