Re: [Sugar-devel] Priorities for testing
Excerpts from Tim McNamara's message of Fri Sep 24 22:37:18 +0200 2010: The New Zealand testing groups will be operating in a few hours. If you have any requests for things to be explored, please respond within 5 hours. That was a bit short notice. For the next test session, it would be nice if you could try Backup [1] and Restore [2]. Sascha [1] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4326 [2] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4327 -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Priorities for testing
That was a bit short notice. For the next test session, it would be nice if you could try Backup [1] and Restore [2]. In Auckland we did test Backup and Restore today. We post our testing summaries to two mailing lists: test...@lists.laptop.org, olpc...@lists.laptop.org Basically they worked, though it was a bit confusing that you don't open restore and then choose the file on the USB. We couldn't use another XOs backup file (which is good, right?). Some instructions for the user might be helpful - when you open the backup activity would be good to click a question mark and see explanation of activity, like what happens in the finance activity. Also, there was no obvious notification that the backup file creation was completed. Tabitha ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Priorities for testing
Excerpts from Tabitha Roder's message of Sat Sep 25 10:49:42 +0200 2010: In Auckland we did test Backup and Restore today. We post our testing summaries to two mailing lists: test...@lists.laptop.org, olpc...@lists.laptop.org Great, thanks! Basically they worked, though it was a bit confusing that you don't open restore and then choose the file on the USB. OK, will add this to my to-do list. No idea when I'll get around to implementing this as I expect similar problems as with interfacing with sugar-datastore across all of 0.82-0.90 which took me several days full-time to get working. We couldn't use another XOs backup file (which is good, right?). Exactly the opposite of good, actually. What was the problem? Do you have a copy of the log file and backup bundle? Some instructions for the user might be helpful Yeah, that's already on my to-do list, though everyone is welcome to help out on this one. There are also quite a few quirks in Sugar 0.82 that users should know about (resp. have a step-by-step instruction to follow so they won't hit these quirks). Also, there was no obvious notification that the backup file creation was completed. This is especially true on the old OLPC builds (with Sugar 0.82) as the GTK version shipped with them contains a bug that causes the labelling of the progress bar to get overwritten by the bar. :( A subtle hint is that the Backup button is active again, but I should add a more obvious indication. From your more detailed post on testing@: Tried to click on the file on the usb that says it is the journal backup for this laptop - it seems to open the restore activity but hard to tell as not labelled as such in the frame Can you elaborate on this, please? I just tried on both Sugar 0.90 and 0.82 and it's labelled clearly in the Frame each time: Journal backup of ... on 0.82 and Restore + Journal backup of ... on 0.90. Did you see something else or did you expect some additional information in the Frame? If the former, the logs (both shell*.log and org.sugarlabs.Restore*.log) would be useful. Ran the restore and it seems to work but it on both XOs we get two copies of the .xmj journal backup file in the Journal. Yes, that's a limitation of Sugar [1]. If you resume anything from outside the Journal (e.g. a USB stick) it gets copied to the Journal first. There's no way for an activity to opt-out from this. In the case of Restore that's especially bad because you need to have enough free space for all of the entries AND the backup bundle. We might be able to get around this by accessing the external medium directly like we do in Backup, but it requires a lot of work as we need UI to choose the file. Sascha [1] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/496 -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Priorities for testing
Tried to click on the file on the usb that says it is the journal backup for this laptop - it seems to open the restore activity but hard to tell as not labelled as such in the frame Can you elaborate on this, please? I just tried on both Sugar 0.90 and 0.82 and it's labelled clearly in the Frame each time: Journal backup of ... on 0.82 and Restore + Journal backup of ... on 0.90. Did you see something else or did you expect some additional information in the Frame? If the former, the logs (both shell*.log and org.sugarlabs.Restore*.log) would be useful. Normally you get the name of the activity in the frame not the name of the file, we are getting the name of the file. I was expecting to see Restore in the frame and in the activity itself see some files I can choose from to restore (so if I did a backup once a week to my USB stick I could choose the newest backup file to restore or an older one if my last backup was bad). Tabitha ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
Re: [Sugar-devel] Priorities for testing
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Tim McNamara paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz wrote: The New Zealand testing groups will be operating in a few hours. If you have any requests for things to be explored, please respond within 5 hours. I have a new (soon to be released) version of Turtle Art I'd love for them to testL http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/attachment/ticket/2353/TurtleArt-99.xo features/enhancements include: * reskinable turtle (#2353) * setxy honors pen up/pen down (#2358) * updated Tamil, Spanish (#2359), and German translations * expandable two-argument blocks (#2330, #2336) * updated samples to take advantage of #2330 and removed extra turtles * removed import numpy to fix #2313 and #2314 -walter Thank you Tim ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
