[Sugar-devel] [REMINDER] Development team meeting --- 05. June 2012 (15:00 UTC)

[Simon Schampijer]

Oups, it should have been the Tuesday the 5th!

On 06/04/2012 06:08 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> tomorrow we will have our weekly development team meeting after a few
> weeks of absence, the topics will be:
>
> - introducing new contributors
>
> - celebrating 0.96 release, what is left to do?, where we do need help?
>
> - environments for development: jhbuild on F17, activity development
> with F17+Sugar installed

I have been talking a bit with Gonzalo about this, and there are 
actually 5 areas we identified where we can improve:

- developing an Activity on non XO platforms: I think having a nice 
guide how to do it in Fedora 17 with the sugar system installation would 
already be a big win

- developing Sugar on non XO platforms: jhbuild is probably what we have 
to stick to, we should make sure it is running fine on Fedora 17 (see 
recent mails of developers having issues here), Marco took a simpler 
approach here: 
http://marcopg.org/2011/11/13/building-gtk3-sugar-on-fedora-16/

- developing on Ubuntu (activities, sugar): there are many developers 
using Ubuntu and AFAIK we are still not up-to-date on Ubuntu, would be 
great to change that

- developing Activities on the XO: maybe we should include git in the 
builds to start with (at least on the 1.5 and 1.75)? the rpm with the 
deps (perl-Error + perl-Git) is 3.2MB, installed 14MB, maybe it can be 
reduced as well with making some of the deps optional? There are still 
people dreaming of simple activity to develop and modify activities for 
the XO (several attempts have been made here)

- developing Sugar on the XO: I did modify Marco's Makefile a bit to 
build on the XO and install in the system path, have to clean that up, 
but that work quite well at least for the toolkit and the artwork, the 
shell is a bit more tricky if you mess it up (but there are tricks with 
starting sugar from the xterm or in GNOME to work around that)

> Time: 05. June 2012 (15:00 UTC)
> Place: #sugar-meeting (freenode)
>
> Regards,
> Simon

Gonzalo will be my partner in the future to run the meetings and take 
care of the Activity part. That way we hope as well to separate the load 
and the chances we won't have a meeting at all due to absence diminish 
greatly.

As well we will be more strict in giving out action items, which we will 
track the status of in the following weeks (just to make sure nothing 
gets dropped without noticing). Thanks to Greg DeKoenigsberg for 
introducing me to that method.

Regards,
    Simon