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December 31st, 2008
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Archive for December, 2008
Travelogging
December 26th, 2008
Saturday night I’m leaving for a short holiday with Daniela. I love to travel and I try to do so every time I have a vacation. We are going to Puglia, a region in the south of Italy, and we are planning to wonder around various cities.
If nothing else I’m sure I’m going to enjoy the warmer climate. It’s cold and snowing tonight here. Also, I will post photos.
Hugs
December 26th, 2008
Christmas is a strange day, I always had very happy ones or very sad, never something in the middle. It can hurt sometimes, if the people you need to hug the most are too far, in space or even worst in the mind.
Collaboration
December 20th, 2008
In the last two weeks I spent quite a bit of time trying to get to the point where the community can start dogfooding collaboration. Our scalability and reliability problems are well known and, as agreed by everyone at Sugarcamp, we need to get at least the most common scenarios working well for Sugar 0.84. Robert and Guillaume has kindly setup a server, with support for gadget at jabber.sugarlabs.org, which we are using now by default in sugar-jhbuild and SoaS.
The results of the testing are very encouraging so far. I haven’t really tested scalability yet but, with a few buddies, presence seems to be completely reliable. This morning I decided to push it a litle further, I opened up a bunch of sugar-jhbuild emulators, created a few activities and joined them. The result is looking very nice!
Uselessness
December 19th, 2008
Did you ever feel like your day was completely useless? Maybe you spent two hours chasing down a bug which someone else solved properly in a few minutes. Maybe you joined meetings and had conversations without feeling to be able to add anything really useful to them, to suprise and to make people smile. And then maybe you have been hoping for an easy chance to fill that emptiness, something hanging so low that even in that complete lack of energy you would be able to catch.
Well, maybe that’s today for me. And maybe I should stop waiting for that chance and just wait for tomorrow.
Trying to go to sleep
December 18th, 2008
Pretty productive day! Simon bugsquad meeting has been really fun, we discussed all the road blockers and got all of them quickly out of the way. Next week it will be fun to move to the actual triaging. Enough words, let’s get it done!
After that we had a discussion about testing coordination between upstream and downstream, I’m a flaky meeting host and I have not yet posted notes, I will do tomorrow. But we made lots of progress, especially on activity testing. Both meetings lasted exactly one hour, as planned. Mel is an awesome teacher.
I’m finding it increasingly hard to go to sleep at night. I’m way too excited about the progress Sugar, as a community, is making these days. Yeah it’s hard. Collaboration is not yet working and activities packaging is going so slowly… It’s not just hard, it’s impossible perhaps. But we are all so crazy that we might actually do it.
Enough blogging. SLEEP!
Update: As promised I posted testing meeting notes.
Buildbot is back
December 17th, 2008
At the usual place… buildbot.sugarlabs.org. Please keep an eye on it when checking in changes or adding dependencies. Next step is to give it some automated testing love.
Gitorious sweetness
December 17th, 2008
I’m gradually moving over my git modules to git.sugarlabs.org. I have to say that I really love gitorious. Thanks to Bernando and OSL for setting it up. The interface is very simple and the workflow is awesome. No admin to beg to create your modules, you register and with a few clicks you can create as many git modules as you like. Also it’s really trivial to create forks and request merging. My only feature request is a way to have multiple owners for a module, co-maintenance is pretty common.
I hope this will also improve availability of development information about activities (how do I contact the author, where is the source code etc), because providing these informations is nicely integrated with the git modules setup. David and Tomeu are working on setting up activities.sugarlabs.org which is based on the same code of addons.mozilla.org and will provide user oriented informations. Infrastructure is shaping up nicely, yay!