[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] FW: Sugar 0.100 status report - April 2

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/4/4 Ajay Garg <ajay at activitycentral.com>:
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> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
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>> The feature page doesn't explicitly state, but I remember it allows
>> batch removal.
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> Ahh yes... it does :)

Oh, right Ajay, it is in the summary:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multi_selection#Summary

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>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multi_selection
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>> 2013/4/3 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>:
>> > Adding devel and Ajay.
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>> > On 3 April 2013 19:26, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> I guess this is where this should go? Clue me in if it should be posted
>> >> elsewhere.
>> >>
>> >> Caryl
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>> >> ________________________________
>> >> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 18:05:36 +0200
>> >> Subject: Re: [IAEP] Sugar 0.100 status report - April 2
>> >> From: dwnarvaez at gmail.com
>> >> To: cbigenho at hotmail.com
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>> >>
>> >> Hi Caryl,
>> >>
>> >> could you post this on the list?. I don't know the answer to your
>> >> questions, but the patches author will know for sure...
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>> >> On 3 April 2013 02:04, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> Hi...
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>> >> Looks like great stuff! Adapting Sugar to run on Android opens lots of
>> >> possibilities. My programming days ended long ago with Pascal, but I
>> >> might
>> >> be able to offer some suggestions as a Sugar user... here's one to
>> >> start...
>> >>
>> >> For the multiple selection of items in the journal... will this also
>> >> allow
>> >> multiple deletion of entries? That would be a handy feature I have
>> >> often
>> >> wished were available. Also, do the selected items have to be
>> >> consecutive?
>> >> Could some be skipped over (either initially or by allowing a deselect
>> >> of
>> >> individual items that aren't wanted on the list).
>> >>
>> >> Caryl
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>> >>
>> >> ________________________________
>> >> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 00:37:08 +0200
>> >> From: dwnarvaez at gmail.com
>> >> To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> >> CC: iaep at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> >> Subject: [IAEP] Sugar 0.100 status report - April 2
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I will try to send out regular reports about the progress of the 0.100
>> >> release, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly depending on how much is
>> >> happening.
>> >>
>> >> 1. A bit late, but we finally have a schedule for the release.We are
>> >> not
>> >> going to have a feature acceptance deadline this time. We decided to
>> >> have
>> >> that discussion early, to try and narrow the focus of the release.
>> >>
>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.100/Roadmap
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>> >> 2. In parallel some developers will keep to refine the 0.98 series.
>> >> Help
>> >> is welcome on that effort. While perhaps not as exciting as new
>> >> features,
>> >> bug fixing and polish is essential to good software.
>> >>
>> >> 3. The main goal of the 0.100 release will be to the develop an HTML5
>> >> based toolkit for activities. This will facilitate running Sugar
>> >> activities
>> >> on other platforms, like Android. In addition we are planning to land
>> >> several other features which has seen development in the past few
>> >> months
>> >>
>> >> Multiple selection in the Journal
>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multi_selection
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>> >> Enhanced support for 3G modems
>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/3G_Support/Database_Support
>> >>
>> >> Background customization
>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Background_image_on_home_view
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>> >> Multiple home views
>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Multiple_home_views
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>> >> Integration with web services
>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Web_services
>> >>
>> >> Journal comments box
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>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Comment_box_in_journal_detail_view
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>> >> Icon customization
>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Icon_Change
>> >>
>> >> 4. The project has always had a bit of an issue with submitted code
>> >> being
>> >> timely reviewed. The situation got worse in the last few months. This
>> >> is a
>> >> major blocker for contributions and we are trying to improve. Simon and
>> >> Manuel, which currently maintains all the Glucose modules alone, are
>> >> putting
>> >> together a list of "reviewers" to help them out with the task. We are
>> >> also
>> >> trying to find review tools which will allow the process to be both
>> >> trackable and visible to everyone (and hopefully a bit more pleasant
>> >> too!).
>> >> We have so far mostly experimented with a workflow based on github pull
>> >> requests.
>> >>
>> >> 5. Walter Bender landed several patches to add a comment box to journal
>> >> entries. It will be populated both by the Portfolio activity and by the
>> >> web
>> >> services integration which is being worked on. The obligatory
>> >> screenshot
>> >>
>> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/4/4a/FB-comments.png
>> >>
>> >> 6. All in all I think we made great progress planning the next release.
>> >> But we will need everyone help to execute and make it a really good
>> >> one.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Daniel Narvaez
>> >>
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>> >> Daniel Narvaez
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