I agree it would be of great benefit. --
Ibiam Chihurumnaya ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 11:41 PM James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > @Shaan, you've joined the Debian Project as a user, and a bug > reporter. As user you have installed Debian and used it. As bug > reporter you have detected a problem and created a bug. > > Joining the Debian Project as a developer would make you more > effective in your GSoC role as a Debian advocate for Sugar. > > You should consider if you have the time in your seven hour day to > learn how to do this, on your own. None of your mentors can give you > specific instruction, because none of us are Debian Developers. The > time you spend learning how to be a Debian Developer can form part of > your GSoC project. > > As a Debian Developer you would contribute to Debian, and report > anything of interest to us at Sugar Labs. You could fix the bug you > reported. You would be acting alone, and with other Debian > Developers. We would evaluate and approve your work as part of GSoC. > If the work improves the situation of Sugar on Debian, then it would > be positive for your project. > > But please, don't focus on local packaging. Local packaging will be > of little benefit to users of Sugar and Debian. I already do this, > and it hasn't helped much at all. > > @Ibiam, the project idea was written to avoid _requiring_ a student to > become a Debian Developer, but it would be of great benefit. > > > https://github.com/sugarlabs/GSoC/blob/master/Ideas-2020.md#debian-advocacy-for-sugar > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 02:56:10PM +0000, shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in > wrote: > > I can submit bug reports, include PR's in them, but I'm not sure how I > would > > submit a PR for upstream changes as there are the extra changes required > to be > > made to get the package working. > > Perhaps after some success in packaging and testing locally, I'll be > able to > > submit those changes aswell. > > > > The updates are made by the Packaging Team [1] > https://salsa.debian.org/groups/ > > pkg-sugar-team/-/group_members > > > > On Saturday, July 11, 2020, 4:50:13 PM GMT+5:30, Chihurumnaya Ibiam > > <ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I thought your project was supposed to be you doing downstream updates > when > > needed. > > > > Who makes the updates? > > > > -- > > > > Ibiam Chihurumnaya > > [2]ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com > > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 12:03 PM Shaan Subbaiah B C <[3] > > shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in> wrote: > > > > No I can't, I'm not part of Debian Sugar Maintainers team. > > > > On Sat, 11 Jul, 2020, 3:50 pm Chihurumnaya Ibiam, <[4] > > ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Can you make the necessary updates downstream? > > > > -- > > > > Ibiam Chihurumnaya > > [5]ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 9:42 AM [6] > shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in <[7] > > shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in> wrote: > > > > Update, > > > > 1. sugar-record-activity is v102 in the Debian Archive, and > is > > based on Python2. The latest release in the Sugar Labs > GitHub Repo > > is v201, based on Python3. > > > > 2. Similarly, sugar-finance-activity is v12 in the Debian > Archive, > > and is based on Python2. The latest release in the Sugar Labs > > GitHub Repo is v15, based on Python3. > > > > The upstream changes haven't been pulled in a while, not > sure why. > > On Saturday, July 11, 2020, 1:49:29 PM GMT+5:30, [8] > > shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in <[9] > shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in> > > wrote: > > > > > > Sure! I’ll look into the other activities and try to find > out why > > they aren’t included. > > sugar-etoys-activity is part of the the [contrib] archives > as it > > depends on etoys which is [non-free]. I should be able to > install > > the package after enabling non-free packages in my > sources.list. > > > > Regarding the other activities, I can try my hand at > packaging the > > activities ported to Python3. > > > > On Saturday, July 11, 2020, 5:04:42 AM GMT+5:30, James > Cameron < > > [10]qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > > > > Thanks. > > > > Is there anything you can help with to get those three > activities > > included? You might first find out why they are not part of > the > > testing distribution, and see if you can improve the > situation. > > > > Is there anything you can do to get other activities > included? > > > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 12:58:49PM +0000, [11] > > shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I’ve listed the issues found in the Memorize activity. > This was > > the last > > > activity that I could test on Debian Bullseye. > > > The remaining activities: sugar-record-activity, > > sugar-etoys-activity, > > > sugar-finance-activity from the [1]Sugar Debian Repository > are > > not part of the > > > Debian Bullseye packages at the moment. > > > I will post what was tested and the issues found in all the > > activities on > > > Debian Bullseye soon. > > > > > > > > > > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > > > > > > Sugar Memorise Activity v58 > > > > > > sudo apt install sugar-memorize-activity > > > > > > 1. On hovering over ‘grid size’ buttons, a warning is > displayed: > > > > > > (sugar-activity3:1859): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:04:20.416: > > Drawing a gadget with negative dimensions. > > > Did you forget to allocate a size? (node menuitem > owner > > SugarPaletteHeader) > > > > > > 2. Editing the game doesn’t work, the activity gets stuck > [2]#29 > > > > > > 3. Activity saves its state to the Datastore but does not > load > > it properly, a > > > fresh instance is started. Therefore, the user is > unable to > > save their > > > progress and continue later. > > > > > > 4. The activity’s sounds and images (which are optional) > depend > > on art4apps ( > > > [3][12]http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Art4Apps), which > is not > > installed by > > > default. Hence none of the sounds and words to generate > cards > > dynamically > > > are included. The user is not notified of winning as > there is > > neither text > > > displayed saying he/she has won nor the winning sound > (win.wav > > from > > > art4apps) is played. > > > > > > > > > > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > > > > > > This simple Multitail config for highlighting the logs > that I’ve > > setup, may be > > > useful to others: > > > > > > # Paste the snippet into /etc/multitail.conf > > > # (or) save as .multitailrc in the home directory > > > > > > # Sugar > > > colorscheme:sugar > > > cs_re:green:DEBUG > > > cs_re:red:ERROR > > > cs_re_s:yellow:(Warning.*) > > > cs_re_s:blue:([0-9]{10,}\.[0-9]{6,}) > > > # > > > > > > Usage: multitail -CS sugar -iw "*YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME*" 1 -m 0 > > > eg. multitail -CS sugar -iw "*Memorize*" 1 -m 0 > > > > > > > > > > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > > > > > > Best, > > > Shaan > > > > > > > > > > > > References: > > > > > > [1] [13]https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-sugar-team > > > [2] [14] > https://github.com/sugarlabs/memorize-activity/issues/29 > > > > > [3] [15]http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Art4Apps > > > > -- > > James Cameron > > [16]http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > [17]Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > [18]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > > References: > > > > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/groups/pkg-sugar-team/-/group_members > > [2] mailto:ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com > > [3] mailto:shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in > > [4] mailto:ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com > > [5] mailto:ibiamchihurumn...@gmail.com > > [6] mailto:shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in > > [7] mailto:shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in > > [8] mailto:shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in > > [9] mailto:shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in > > [10] mailto:qu...@laptop.org > > [11] mailto:shaansubbaiah.c...@bmsce.ac.in > > [12] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Art4Apps > > [13] https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-sugar-team > > [14] https://github.com/sugarlabs/memorize-activity/issues/29 > > [15] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Art4Apps > > [16] http://quozl.netrek.org/ > > [17] mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > [18] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.netrek.org/ >
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