Collogue

I have been travelling during the last week, with sporadic internet access and anyway with very little time to read and answer email. Even less to write code, duh! I will be back home only on 5 January, but I’ll try to deal with my email queue earlier, hopefully in the next couple of nights. Apologizes to everyone for the delays!

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.

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.

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!