[Sugar-devel] Sugar-Server enhancement

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Dave

It is absurd for reasons I have specified the first time James made this 
statement. The two scripts are in /usr/bin. They are invoked by the 
installed Sugar image. The scripts are enabled by 
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jarabe/The status is specified in 
/home/olpc/.sugar/defaults. I have in front of me an XO-1 with Build 85 
(Sugar 0.82.1). If has the two scripts in /usr/bin.

This version used a file config in /home/olpc/.sugar/default (pre-dating 
gconf, let alone gsetting). This file contains:

[Server]
backup1 = SHC84201B0A at schoolserver.linuxtag:backup .

The real problem is not the absurdity of claiming that ds_backup is not 
part of Sugar but that the statement attempts to close community 
discussion. I grant it may not be a capability important to James, but 
it is to me. I have great respect for James Cameron's technical 
capabilities. I can also understand if he does not feel that this 
feature scratches his itch (or serves the needs of his employer). 
However, this does not entitle him to impose his judgment on the community.

Tony

On 04/18/2016 08:54 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
>
> Hi Tony
>
> On 14 April 2016 at 04:43, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net 
> <mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net>> wrote:
>
>     However this is the second time he has claimed that the backup
>     does not have anything to do with Sugar. An absurd position.
>
>
> Perhaps, but as a fellow newbie, it is not obvious to me why this 
> position is absurd. Since it seems important for people to understand, 
> perhaps you could explain it on the wiki or developer documentation 
> somewhere? :)
>
>     James is excellent technically, but very new to the community and
>     with limited understanding of the history or field use of the
>     systems.
>
>
> That's also my impression
>
>     He probably is not aware that OLPC before the Sugar splinter
>     proposed to actually build a hardware school server.
>
>
> Since I was very marginally involved in the OLPC community in 2007 I 
> do remember this, and I see the https://github.com/XSCE/xsce codebase 
> is very actively recently :)
>
> -- 
> Cheers
> Dave

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