[Sugar-devel] GSoC Project: Migration of Activities wiki-pages to GitHub
Rudra Sadhu
rdrsadhu at gmail.com
Fri May 11 10:37:01 EDT 2018
Hello!
We are done with our second weekly meeting discussing the project. (this
was a very short meeting)
Please find the logs at
http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2018-05-11T14:09:25
And we will be doing the next meeting on next Friday at the same time 1600
CET.
thanks,
Rudra Sadhu
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Rudra Sadhu <rdrsadhu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I realise I've not explained the project as well as I could/should have.
> This blog post[1] is an attempt to better define the same.
>
> We can discuss more about this in the sugar-devel meeting today, if
> required.
>
> Regards,
> Rudra Sadhu
>
> [1] : https://rdrsadhu.github.io/blog/gsoc2018/2018-05-08-project-details/
>
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 4:10 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Yes, we do seem to be talking to ourselves.
>>
>> The goal remains, though the mentors in that meeting didn't mention
>> it; give them some slack, they haven't been especially heavy
>> contributors to Sugar Labs. Of the three mentors present, Divyanshu,
>> Onuwa, and Ibiam, only Ibiam has been a recently active contributor,
>> and not to the Wiki, Help activity or https://help.sugarlabs.org/
>>
>> Re: Hello World. It is a coding example, has no use otherwise, so it
>> should not be in activities.sugarlabs.org; I've disabled it. Version
>> will be incremented when a release is made. Repository has no release
>> tags. We need an activity maintainer for it. A checklist for
>> maintaining an activity is here;
>>
>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs/blob/master/src/cont
>> ributing.md#checklist---maintainer
>>
>> Across the activity set, we have very few activity maintainers. This
>> will change as the GSoC coding period begins; particularly as Yash and
>> Rahul begin working.
>>
>> Back on topic; Rudra's project has a purpose; it is a subset of
>> activity maintenance, but the coding is automation that will be used
>> _once_. Possibly a brain-numbing exercise, akin to road construction
>> during the Irish potato famine.
>>
>> I've been a reviewer for the pull requests so far; four of them just
>> now. Mentors, Walter, Tony, and others could help by reviewing
>> Rudra's pull requests as they are made rather than leaving it to me.
>> ;-)
>>
>> @Rudra, my recommendation is to set an order of work; start with the
>> demonstration set of activities (Fructose), because we keep these
>> maintained well, then work on the activities that Tony has listed as
>> working with Ubuntu 18.04 or Thomas has listed as working with Fedora
>> 28.
>>
>> @Rudra, also think through the whole ecosystem from coding to user,
>> and propose changes to your project in response to your reading of
>> the current mailing list thread. We're not expecting you to be a
>> compliant robot, but an imaginative student. Situation reminds me of
>> something I saw in the student guide;
>>
>> https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/finding-the-righ
>> t-project.html
>>
>> "Don’t be that person: Cut and pasting an idea from the organization page
>> and turning that in as your project’s description is a big no-no. You’ll be
>> expected to research and submit your own ideas about how to accomplish the
>> project your way, not just state the end result."
>>
>> On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 10:44:06AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote:
>> > Hi, Walter
>> >
>> > Sadly, I saw no comment in the meeting that suggests the project
>> includes this
>> > goal. As you know, a common outcome to GSOC projects is that they are
>> not
>> > completed in the available time. Perhaps the project could be more
>> explicit as
>> > an update to the help activity than as a migration of wiki pages to
>> github.
>> >
>> > Tony
>> >
>> > On Sunday, 06 May, 2018 09:55 AM, Walter Bender wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 9:04 PM Tony Anderson <[1]tony at olenepal.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > SugarLabs is our site to communicate with our users and
>> prospective
>> > users. GitHub is our site to support SugarLabs development. In
>> this
>> > meeting it is pointed out that maintaining two versions of the
>> > wikipages will be difficult (obvious, since we are unable to
>> maintain
>> > even one). The evil word 'deprecation' was used (I would have
>> preferred
>> > - improved). It is logical to maintain markdown pages
>> describing the
>> > technical design of an activity (such as Browse or Turtle
>> Blocks).
>> > However, we need documentation for users with screenshots
>> showing the
>> > intended method of use and providing challenges to show advanced
>> > capabilities. ASLO needs more help to enable users to make
>> informed
>> > decisions on which activities to download and install.
>> >
>> > Our current direction seems to lead to us talking only to
>> ourselves.
>> >
>> > Part of this effort is to update/expand/improve the Help Activity.
>> It seems
>> > that this would make the documentation more rather than less
>> accessible,
>> > especially for our users with limited internet access.
>> >
>> > regards.
>> >
>> > -walter
>> >
>> > Tony
>> >
>> > On Friday, 04 May, 2018 10:54 PM, divyanshu rawat wrote:
>> >
>> > *
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> >
>> > We are done with our first meeting with Rudra Sadhu and he
>> is doing
>> > great.
>> > Here are the logs of today's meeting: [2]http://
>> > meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2018-05-04T14:
>> 17:25.
>> > Please share your opinions and suggestions.
>> > And we will be doing the next meeting on next Friday at the
>> same
>> > time 1600 CET.
>> >
>> > Best
>> > Divyanshu
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:40 PM, divyanshu rawat <[3]
>> > divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I will be there to attend.
>> >
>> > On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 at 10:38 PM, Onuwa Nnachi Isaac <[4]
>> > matrix4u2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Sounds good.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 18:07 Rudra Sadhu <[5]
>> > rdrsadhu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Lets start this Friday. 1600 CET.
>> > > sure, I'll be present. All community members
>> are
>> > invited to join as well.
>> >
>> > Nice article by the way, I made some corrections
>> > regarding some typos.
>> > > thanks a lot! I've rectified them in the blog.
>> >
>> > regards,
>> > Rudra Sadhu
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 2:51 PM, Onuwa Nnachi
>> Isaac <
>> > [6]matrix4u2002 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Greetings from Nigeria,
>> >
>> > Welcome to Sugar Labs.
>> >
>> > Lets start this Friday. 1600 CET.
>> >
>> > We'll use the #sugar IRC.
>> >
>> > Nice article by the way, I made some
>> corrections
>> > regarding some typos.
>> >
>> > [7]Link to the correction
>> >
>> > Warm Regards
>> >
>> >
>> > Nnachi Isaac Onuwa
>> > [8]about.me/iamonuwa
>> > *
>> >
>> > On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 12:54 PM, Rudra
>> Sadhu <[9]
>> > rdrsadhu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Greetings!
>> >
>> > Thank You for the opportunity to work
>> with
>> > Sugar Labs under the banner of Google
>> Summer of
>> > Code this year.
>> >
>> > I recently published an introductory
>> blog post
>> > [1], describing my GSoC 2018 journey.
>> > Hope you'll love giving it a read.
>> >
>> > To my mentors (Divyanshu Rawat and
>> Onuwa Nnachi
>> > Isaac) :
>> > Let me know your preferences to set up a
>> > regular set of meeting times to discuss
>> the
>> > project.
>> > I would prefer them to be on #sugar so
>> that
>> > other community members could possibly
>> join.
>> >
>> > Looking forward to a great summer. :)
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Rudra Sadhu
>> >
>> > [1] [10]https://rdrsadhu.gith
>> ub.io/blog/
>> > gsoc2018/
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Divyanshu Rawat / Software Developer
>> > [11]divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com / +41 779807546 / +91
>> 8003856439
>> >
>> > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
>> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
>> >
>> > GSOC Mentor 2018 at Sugalabs, GCI 2017 Mentor at Sugar
>> Labs
>> > Stanford Scholar Initiative, Harvard Innovation Labs,
>> > UnternehmerTUM GmbH
>> > [12]www.divyanshurawat.me
>> >
>> > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
>> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
>> >
>> > [13]Twitter [s] [14]LinkedIn [s] [15]Github _ [16]Stack
>> > Overflow [s] [17]Behance [s]
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Divyanshu Rawat / Software Developer
>> > [18]divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com / +41 779807546 / +91
>> 8003856439
>> >
>> > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
>> >
>> > GSOC Mentor 2018 at Sugalabs, GCI 2017 Mentor at Sugar Labs
>> > Stanford Scholar Initiative, Harvard Innovation Labs,
>> > UnternehmerTUM GmbH
>> > [19]www.divyanshurawat.me
>> >
>> > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
>> >
>> > [20]Twitter [s] [21]LinkedIn [s] [22]Github [s] [23]Stack
>> Overflow
>> > [s] [24]Behance _
>> >
>> >
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>> > Walter Bender
>> > Sugar Labs
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>> > References:
>> >
>> > [1] mailto:tony at olenepal.org
>> > [2] http://meeting.sugarlabs.org/sugar-meeting/meetings/2018-05-
>> 04T14:17:25
>> > [3] mailto:divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com
>> > [4] mailto:matrix4u2002 at gmail.com
>> > [5] mailto:rdrsadhu at gmail.com
>> > [6] mailto:matrix4u2002 at gmail.com
>> > [7] https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GpTc9JMuCZ6SIZ04Do9i_DA
>> emGOcw8DIqjBUADRRzo/edit?usp=sharing
>> > [8] https://about.me/iamonuwa?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product
>> &utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=edit_panel
>> > [9] mailto:rdrsadhu at gmail.com
>> > [10] https://rdrsadhu.github.io/blog/gsoc2018/
>> > [11] mailto:divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com
>> > [12] http://www.divyanshurawat.me/
>> > [13] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DCV8RZ
>> > [14] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DKT8C6
>> > [15] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DH4GT2
>> > [16] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DEFKRT
>> > [17] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DKZ3AC
>> > [18] mailto:divyanshu.r46956 at gmail.com
>> > [19] http://www.divyanshurawat.me/
>> > [20] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DCV8RZ
>> > [21] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DKT8C6
>> > [22] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DH4GT2
>> > [23] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DEFKRT
>> > [24] https://htmlsig.com/t/000001DKZ3AC
>> > [25] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> > [26] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>> > [27] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> > [28] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
>> > [29] http://www.sugarlabs.org/
>> > [30] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> > [31] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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