[Sugar-devel] addons.mozilla.org - what needs to be done?

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at sugarlabs.org
Tue Jan 27 07:10:44 EST 2009


Hi Mel,

I'm very happy to know that you want to put your capable hands on this.

Have started this page here: http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Remora_port

Please ask Bernie to setup the environment needed to hack on a.s.o and
tell me what else I can help with.

Regards,

Tomeu

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 13:23, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
> (ccing the dev list at Wade's request)
>
> Hiya, Tomeu -
>
> Wade said I should ask you what infrastructure work needs to be done to get
> addons.mozilla.org up and running. Could you point me towards
> logins/servers/existing work/trac tickets and help me get started?
>
> This afternoon was the first I'd heard about us using addons.mozilla.org,
> and it gets a huge +1 from me - I'd like to be able to use it for
> reviews/comments/tags during Activity testing at the Wellington testers
> meetup next Saturday, so let me know what I have to do to get it up before
> then.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Mel
>
> ---- excerpted IRC log, for backstory ----
>
> <mchua> cjb: is the idea to use the framework for addons.mozilla.org for
> sugar activities
> <cjb> yes, exactly
> <cjb> so, it's mainly for delivering .xos to laptops, as our
> wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities does now
> <wadeb|w> there are two different faces to each activity, the user face and
> the developer face
> <wadeb|w> addons.sl.o is the user facing portal
> <wadeb|w> ie reviews of activities, comments, tags, hosting of .xo files
> <wadeb|w> gitorious and w.sl.o/ActivityTeam/ is the developer facing
> <wadeb|w> so, if we create per-activity wiki pages they're gonna be
> developer focused
> <wadeb|w> still, right now I'm down on per-activity anything as things tend
> to get lost
> <mchua> wadeb|w: so if there's any infrastructure work that I can do to help
> that have a place to go next weekend, I would love to
> <wadeb|w> we just need someone to find the time to finish it
> <mchua> wadeb|w: I have time, not sure if I have know-how. how can i find
> out?
> <wadeb|w> mchua: yeah, I'm pondering the best way to organize the data
> <wadeb|w> mchua: it's just some python-based webserver hacking afaik.
> <mchua> wadeb|w: ...that does sound like something I could do
> <mchua> wadeb|w: i've got to pop out for a bit, conf lunchtime - it sounds
> like we need the infrastucture up before we can do any of the per-activity
> data migration, and that addons.sl.org is the infrastructure that needs to
> go up, and so my first task should be to get that up?
> <wadeb|w> mchua: ok, ping tomeu for information on what needs to be done
> <wadeb|w> mchua: sounds like a plan
> <wadeb|w> mchua: it's our #1 activity infrastructure need right now
>
>


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