Re: [Techteam] Adding a "Next release" milestone in trac

2008-06-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:54:44PM -0400, Kim Quirk wrote: > Can we use a combination of milestones and tagging? Seems like a fine idea to me. > Maybe the milestone represents the desired location of the feature, > and the tags represent current expectations as to whether it can make > one relea

Re: [Techteam] Adding a "Next release" milestone in trac

2008-06-20 Thread Kim Quirk
Michael, If we can all agree on tagging and on using exactly the same tags (which is very difficult); then we still have to deal with the milestone issue as the entire roadmap and all the past expectations have been that the milestone DO mean something. It is difficult to give up on milestones (at

Re: [Techteam] Adding a "Next release" milestone in trac

2008-06-20 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:35:33PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I began wishing that I could meaningfully differentiate between the > > "Future release" and non-existent "Next release" components. Because we are

New joyride build 2056

2008-06-20 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2056 Changes in build 2056 from build: 2055 Size delta: 0.00M -sugar-presence-service 0.81.1-1.olpc2 +sugar-presence-service 0.81.2-1.olpc2 --- Changes for sugar-presence-service 0.81.2-1.olpc2 from 0.81.1-1.olpc2 --- + Update to 0.81

RE: Issue with activities using sounds and invite and power adapters

2008-06-20 Thread David Leeming
Clarification on the below viz activities using sounds. These effects seem to be intermittent. I can't reliably replicate them but noticed this several times during the training on site last week. - Start Speak, make some sounds, then start TamTamMini leaving Speak running. TamTam

Re: wiki spam!

2008-06-20 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PS: what are the currently installed software-based anti-spam tools on > the wiki? > : default mediawiki block tools for admins : semiprotection for spam magnets : a captcha required for anonymous or new editors that add exte

New faster build 2055

2008-06-20 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build2055 Changes in build 2055 from build: 2053 Size delta: 0.13M -sugar-presence-service 0.81.1-1.olpc2 +sugar-presence-service 0.81.2-1.olpc2 -Journal 91 +Journal 92 --- Changes for sugar-presence-service 0.81.2-1.olpc2 from 0.81.1-1.olpc2

Re: wiki spam!

2008-06-20 Thread Bastien
"Samuel Klein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Joseph A. Feinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I had the same instance today, with a community testing page. Spoke > > with Kim... she said it's a wiki's fe

Re: wiki spam!

2008-06-20 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Bastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Joseph A. Feinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I had the same instance today, with a community testing page. Spoke > > with Kim... she said it's a wiki's feature, not a bug! ;-( > > If you admit it's a wiki feature (whi

New joyride build 2055

2008-06-20 Thread Build Announcer v2
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2055 Changes in build 2055 from build: 2053 Size delta: 0.00M -Journal 91 +Journal 92 --- Changes for Journal 92 from 91 --- + Add indications for empty Journal and empty search results (eben) + Translation update for Italian (Carlo

Re: wiki spam!

2008-06-20 Thread Bastien
"Joseph A. Feinstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had the same instance today, with a community testing page. Spoke > with Kim... she said it's a wiki's feature, not a bug! ;-( If you admit it's a wiki feature (which I wouldn't), you should also admit it's a community bug. -- Bastien _

Re: Issue with activities using sounds and invite and power adapters

2008-06-20 Thread Morgan Collett
Hi David 2008/6/20 David Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If you have a lot of laptops (i.e. we had 40+ in a small area, we were in > a classroom and then in small groups outside), the invite function is not > reliable – you invite someone but no icon appears on the activity bar of the > invited X

Re: wiki spam!

2008-06-20 Thread Samuel Klein
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Joseph A. Feinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the same instance today, with a community testing page. Spoke > with Kim... she said it's a wiki's feature, not a bug! ;-( > That's a fact. Anyone can revert spammers by visiting their edit history and rolli

Issue with activities using sounds and invite and power adapters

2008-06-20 Thread David Leeming
In trials in PNG I have come across an apparent issue with build 703 / activities as of date. If you run the Measure activity and then follow with the Record, the screen (digital camera output) is blank. If you run two activities using sound (TamtamMini and Speak for instance), you may find

RE: Upgrade G1G1 using autoreinstallation method

2008-06-20 Thread David Leeming
Hi John, Sorry for silence, I am just back from a trial deployment in East Sepik (wiki will be updated later today) See feedback from OLPC Australia: (note that setting up an XS is not a short term option in our trials in PNG, as there is no permanent power supply a the school) >>> Just wanted

Re: wiki spam!

2008-06-20 Thread Joseph A. Feinstein
I had the same instance today, with a community testing page. Spoke with Kim... she said it's a wiki's feature, not a bug! ;-( Joe - At 03:49 PM 6/20/2008 -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote: >It's becoming very annoying having to deal with spam (bots?) operating >on the wiki, trying

Re: wiki spam!

2008-06-20 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's becoming very annoying having to deal with spam (bots?) operating > on the wiki, trying to blank wiki pages, like in the case of the following: > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multi-hop_mesh_network_in_MIT

Re: wiki spam!

2008-06-20 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Hi all, We've had worst Spam attacks and the cases have been solved by all the wiki admins without having to apply further restrictions to access. Cheers! 2008/6/20 Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We can run an anti-blanking bot to avoid the most obvious spam. Requiring > logins makes tr

Re: wiki spam!

2008-06-20 Thread Samuel Klein
We can run an anti-blanking bot to avoid the most obvious spam. Requiring logins makes tracking casual vandals harder without making it harder for any dedicated vandal such as this one from doing their devious deeds. Of course, if you want to restrict viral communication on our wiki by increasing

Re: A few comments on recent work on Gadget.

2008-06-20 Thread Carol Lerche
If so, it hardly merits a speed comparison, since the functionality is entirely different. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Ivan Krstić < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 20, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Carol Lerche wrote: > >> I'm puzzled by what you could mean to say "I wrote two prototypes, one >> us

wiki spam!

2008-06-20 Thread Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
It's becoming very annoying having to deal with spam (bots?) operating on the wiki, trying to blank wiki pages, like in the case of the following: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Multi-hop_mesh_network_in_MIT_campus Is there a way to prevent that? Why not require user logins to make edits? p. -- Po

Re: A few comments on recent work on Gadget.

2008-06-20 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jun 20, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Carol Lerche wrote: > I'm puzzled by what you could mean to say "I wrote two prototypes, > one using SQLite and one in Python". I take it he means that in the former instance, he shoved stuff into an actual SQLite database. In the latter, he kept data purely in m

Re: A few comments on recent work on Gadget.

2008-06-20 Thread Carol Lerche
I'm puzzled by what you could mean to say "I wrote two prototypes, one using SQLite and one in Python". Do you mean you placed content in a SQLite database using its command line interface? There is a Python interface to SQLite. Do you mean you reimplemented the functions of SQLite in Python? Un

Re: [Techteam] Adding a "Next release" milestone in trac

2008-06-20 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The time has come to slog through all of the tickets in trac, to > prioritize the bugs that need to get fixed in the near future, and to > push those that can wait out a bit. I had made it as far as the first > ticket in th

[PATCH] olpcrd modular SD support

2008-06-20 Thread Deepak Saxena
Following is a patch to allow us to boot from SD with the latest testing and master kernels that modularize the SD stack. We don't need this for power AFAIK, but it makes it much easier to test SD driver changes by just rebuilding the driver instead of the whole kernel. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxe

Re: A few comments on recent work on Gadget.

2008-06-20 Thread Dafydd Harries
Ar 17/06/2008 am 19:53, ysgrifennodd Michael Stone: > Dear Daf & Guillaume, > > I read through Guillaume's 'activity' branch a few days ago and recorded > several comments which I'd like to forward to you. I hope they help. > > * Thanks for the nice documentation linked to from > >

Adding a "Next release" milestone in trac

2008-06-20 Thread Eben Eliason
The time has come to slog through all of the tickets in trac, to prioritize the bugs that need to get fixed in the near future, and to push those that can wait out a bit. I had made it as far as the first ticket in the list before I began wishing that I could meaningfully differentiate between the

olpc-dm ck-connector patch

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Background for others: olpc3 is a bit broken because HAL doesn't let sugar do anything like mount USB drives, reboot/shutdown, etc. This is because HAL is not able to determine if sugar is the "active" user of the machine. sugar (well, olpc-dm) needs to register itself with ConsoleKit so that

Re: etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-20 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] The reason for having it in non-free is that the Debian > ftpmasters don't think it passes the criteria for inclusion in > main. [...] > http://paste.debian.net/6962 > [...] (Sorry, this is probably OT for this list.) Considering the age of this

Re: Making speech-dispatcher python API support asynchronous socket communication

2008-06-20 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Hemant Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When the handshaking is taking place the gtk mainloop has not yet started > and hence we cannot rely on the event generated by gobject to read data off > the socket. And if this handshaking does not take place the API > i

Making speech-dispatcher python API support asynchronous socket communication

2008-06-20 Thread Hemant Goyal
Hi, (This mail might become extremely verbose. Please bear with me) The speech-dispatcher python API can be accessed at: http://cvs.freebsoft.org/repository/speechd/src/python/speechd/client.py?view=markup The client API communicates with the speech server presently in a thread by polling the so

etoys now available in Debian's non-free repository

2008-06-20 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, etoys is now available in Debian's non-free repository, so it's not officially part of Debian (non-free isnt Debian), but technically can be installed with apt-get/aptitude easily. The reason for having it in non-free is that the Debian ftpmasters don't think it passes the criteria for inc