Sugar on a Stick v3 "how did we do?" release review meeting
by Mel Chua
How did the Mirabelle release cycle go? We're gearing up for making
v4, and want to know what went well and what could have been better -
everything from technical to deployment to documentation to process
sustainability to... well, really, everything!
Our next weekly meeting (Monday May 31, 1900 UTC in #sugar-meeting on
irc.freenode.net) will be about exactly that. We announced this date
several weeks back, but now that the release is out and the meeting
date near, it's time for a reminder.
If you can't make the meeting, no worries (especially since Monday is
a holiday in the US). This meeting is intended to get as much feedback
out at one time as possible; release planning for v4 is a separate
meeting (June 7th, again at 1900 UTC) that will take the feedback from
this release review into account." Anything sent in before that
meeting will be considered during the initial v4 planning session.
if you can't make the meeting (or even if you can) and have thoughts
or suggestions you'd like to share, please send them to
soas(a)lists.sugarlabs.org or add them directly to the agenda,
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick_meetings#Agenda (which
includes links to the email feedback I've seen so far). Note that you
need to be a member of the soas list to post to it, so if you aren't
subscribed, feel free to email it just to me with a request to forward
to the list, and I'll do so. I'm only gathering feedback that appears
on the soas list, though, in order to preserve my sanity - so if you
reply to any of the other lists, we may not see it in time.
The three questions to answer:
1. What went well with Mirabelle?
2. What didn't?
3. How would you change things?
And then, of course, whatever else you'd like to write.
--Mel, who was somehow inadvertently persuaded by Peter and Sebastian
to chair this meeting
13 years, 11 months
Heads-up: POSSE folks hacking in Fedora/Sugar this week and next
by Mel Chua
Some of you may have noticed some new faces in #sugar - we (Walter
Bender, Peter Robinson, and I) are hanging out with a group of
professors (mostly from the Worcester area) who are in town this week
for http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE, a workshop for
learning how to get their students involved contributing to open source
projects. (In this case, Sugar, with Fedora as a dev platform.)
They've been learning to hack Sugar all week, and are in fact in #sugar
at this very moment tinkering away on the Measure Activity. Their feeds
haven't yet been added to Planet Sugar Labs (those requests are still
pending), but you can read some of their (great!) reflections so far at
http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Planet.
So if you have a moment, pop in and say hello to:
* Peter Froehlich (Johns Hopkins) - pgf
* Karl Wurst (Worcester State College) - kwurst
* Nadimpalli Mahadev (Fitchburg State College) - Mahadev
* Kristina Striegnitz (Union College, Schenectady, NY) - kis
* Jerry Breecher (Clark University, Worcester MA) - diamond
* Mihaela Sabin (University of New Hampshire) - mihaela
* Gary Pollice (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) - gpollice
* Aparna Mahadev (Worcester State College) - aparna
Next week we'll have another - slightly larger - batch from RIT doing
the same thing, with myself, Chris Tyler, and Luke Macken focusing more
on how to make Fedora a better environment for
running/deploying/developing Sugar - if you have any thoughts in this
direction, please send comments our way! (Things we've come up with so
far: general Python development stuff, liveusb-creator hacks, SVG
rendering working strangely in different recent versions of Fedora... we
need to turn this into a proper ticket queue.)
Just wanted to let y'all know. I'll blog this to Planet in a moment.
--Mel
13 years, 11 months
os15?
by Yioryos Asprobounitis
I noticed that os15 appeared in http://people.sugarlabs.org/smparrish/
However, is not announced anywhere I could find.
Is that a full build to be tested or just a partial/problematic one like os14?
(Thought to ask first saving some bandwidth and time)
13 years, 11 months
who is being shown in Neighborhood View
by Mikus Grinbergs
Been trying out os240py. My current setup is an ethernet LAN, with *no*
DHCP server. It was interesting to note (just by changing the
/etc/resolv.conf content, plus clicking on an AP icon) that when I do
not have a valid /etc/resolv.conf file, Neighborhood View shows the XOs
on my local LAN; whereas when I do have a valid /etc/resolv.conf file,
Neighborhood View shows the XOs connected to the "My Settings" specified
Jabber server (on the internet).
mikus
13 years, 11 months
