I am very sorry, Peter, that I did not realise that you had applied a patch within 75 minutes of being made aware of it. Thank you for that.
More than one could expect from the most dedicated maintainer - a pity you did not say though! I mistakenly thought that your reply was, "Before my time, Guv", the opportunity to test a patch was now closing, and that your point: "The question is what does it do, and why when Speak has been working for years does it suddenly break." was still hanging in the air. I regret that I made my comment terse in this respect: while I have occasionally seen the issue: Alice "I don't know what you are talking about?", whenever I tried to chase it down it disappeared. So I had opened up all the SoaS media I have. I compared the change logs of Speak with the release dates of SoaS. In every examined case, prior to the excellent Speak-48, there was a new version of Speak shortly after each new SoaS. This meant that, on Software update, the missing /usr/share/sugar/activities/Speak.activity/bot in the sugar.iso was replaced by ~/Activities/Speak.activity/bot and the issue was not seen. I went straight to a hare-brained solution, instead of just reporting what I saw. Iain On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 11:23 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote: > > Assertion, limited testing, please contradict: > > Speak, "Ask robot a question" is broken in SoaS 1.00 > > > 1.00? What? > > > It has been broken for several years, but is not seen because a Software > > update has been available which provides bot/ and functionality of "Ask > > robot a question". > > It tends to help by reporting the problem several years ago. > Ultimately SoaS as a distribution is a complex beast with 1000s of > moving parts. Maintaining it is not part of my dayjob and I do it in > the little free time I have available and while I do basic runtime > testing of all the Activities it's impossible for me to test all > functionality hence it's vital for people to report bugs so people > like Gonzalo and myself can investigate and ensure issues are fixed. > > > Please can we release Speak-49 to restore "Ask robot a question" > > functionality in SoaS 1.00 > > > It has been restored and will be available in the Final SoaS 21 GA release. > > > Please can we hold back Speak-49 from the closing SoaS deadline. This > > way a Speak-49 Software update will be available to fix SoaS pro temps. > > That would never happen, but it's also not a problem as the issue is > now fixed and will land in the GA release. > > SoaS is released as part of the Fedora release cycle. While it's not > perfect it provides us a lot of automated process which I don't need > to deal with. It's a give and take situation and without it I wouldn't > have the time to deal with a release process and hence wouldn't do > SoaS. It also enables us with zero effort to produce SoaS images that > will run on all sorts of devices from the biggest Intel laptops to > cheap ARM devices. > > > I have no way of knowing how sugar-speak.spec file affects XOs, so I > > cannot propose to alter sugar-speak.spec myself. > > It doesn't at all. > > Peter _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list SoaS@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas