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User:Satyaakam

2012-11-19T12:40:55Z

Satyaakam: /*Satyaakam*/

==Satyaakam Goswami aka satyag ==
I am Free and Open Source Software consultant from India focussing on IT infrastucture and Android Apps 

'''Location:''' Indirapuram, Ghaziabad 

'''Email :''' satyaakam(at)gmail(dot)com 

==My Passion==
Hack around FOSS projects and try to fill in the grey areas in them , I am one of the luck few whose passion is his work , been a sort of hitch-hiker ,with different community projects and done some day jobs with Enterprises , this is what brings the balance in me for whatever i do Professionally. 

==Profile==
http://www.linkedin.com/in/satyaakam 
http://github.com/satyaakam/ 
http://www.fossevents.in 
http://openhatch.org/people/satyaakam/ 

==My Blog==
http://www.satyaakam.net

0.88/Testing

2010-02-14T05:01:54Z

Satyaakam: /*TESTING

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=Meetings=

== Testing Day February the 16th ==
This will be an asynchronous effort, hence "Testing day" :). However we will do two kickstart meetings. One at 14:00 UTC and one at 19:00 UTC. In these meetings we will give a short introduction to what to test and answer questions about how to get the image on a usb-key and of course how to gather the results.

=== When ===
* Kickoff-Meeting 1: 14:00 UTC
* Kickoff-Meeting 2: 19:00 UTC

===Where===
This meeting will be an online meeting using IRC, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC Internet Relay Chat]. You can read here more how to use [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Contacts#IRC.2C_Internet_Relay_Chat IRC] to join the meeting. The meeting will be taking place on the channel #sugar on the irc.freenode.net server.
* IRC Channel: #sugar Server: irc.freenode.net

=== Attendees ===

Are you planning to attend? Add your name and your expertise below!

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Name !! Tester !! Feature owner !! Coordinator !! Special skills
|-
! [[User:Erikos | Simon Schampijer]]
| yes || yes || yes
|-
! [[User:Sdz | Sebastian Dziallas]]
| yes || no || [[Sugar_on_a_Stick|soas]]
|-
! [[User:Rkabir | Ryan Kabir]]
| yes || no || no
|-
! [[User:Mchua|Mel chua]]
| yes || no || [http://blog.melchua.com/category/soas/ soas pilot] || community QA, SMW-based test case systems
|
|-
|[[User:Satyag|Satyaakam Goswami]] || yes ||no ||[http://translate.sugarlabs.org/hi/ Hindi Translation] || testing
|}

===Testing image===
[http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/soas-testing-day-13-02-10.iso Soas Testing day build]

(This is the [http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/ latest soas nightly build]. At the moment starting activities is broken in that build. As this is a daily snapshot it will not be fixed in time for the meeting, hence use the build from the link above.)

=Testing plans=
==0.88 Features==
We use the section "How to test" of the Feature page.

* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Enhanced_Gettext#How_To_Test Enhanced Gettext Testing plan] - Enhanced Gettext adds an extra search path for translation files for Sugar activities. This would allow deployments to add and update activity translations independently of the release process.

* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/3G_Support#How_To_Test 3G Support Testing plan] - Allow the Sugar user to connect to 3G networks.

* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Font_configuration#How_To_Test Font configuration] - Distributors/deployers need a way to be able to customize the Sugar font size.

==Language Tests==
* There was an issue with unpackaged languages.
** [1] Danish (da): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "Du skal skrive et navn.")
** [1] Malagasy (mg): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "Tsy maintsy mampiditra anarana ianao")
** Albania (sq): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "Vetem emri duhet shkruar")
** Swedish (sv): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "Du måste ange ett namn.")
** Swahili (sw): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "Lazima uingize jina lako")
** Tamil (ta): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "நீங்கள் பெயரை பதிவு செய்யுங்கள்.")
* Test your own native language (can be set using the Control Panel)

==Bug Fix testing==
* [-1, -1] Synchronize changes made to a Journal entry {{Bug|1358}}
** Start a new Activity from the home fav view (e.g Browse)
** Switch to Journal
** Favourite star it, edit the title, in detail view add description and/or tags
** Switch back to Journal list view (i.e don't leave in Journal details view)
** Switch to Activity instance
** Switch back to Journal view
** All Journal metadata details should be still there
* [0] Several Access Points with the same essid {{Bug|330}}
* [1] Name input screen should be deactivable {{Bug|1497}}
* [0] Create temporary files for DS in ~/.sugar {{Bug|1452}}
* [0] can't connect to WEP shared key networks {{Bug|1602}}
* [0] intro screen doesn't unfreeze dcon {{Bug|1601}}
* [0] copy-to-journal dbus error {{Bug|573}}
* [0] file descriptor leak in filestore.retrieve() {{Bug|1550}}
* [0] range queries use lexical comparison, not numerical {{Bug|1342}}
* [0] add and use type information for Xapian value-stored properties {{Bug|1437}}

Legend: 0 means untested, 1 means does work, -1 does not work for me (there can be several 1 and -1)

=Instructions to flash Soas=
You can use the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry Blueberry instructions] to flash Sugar on a Stick on your usb device.

livecd-iso-to-disk_to_write_live_USB possibly '''unsupported''' [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Liveusb#livecd-iso-to-disk_to_write_live_USB] if using Fedora

=How to write a good bug report=
You should note the following in the bug report:
* the version you are using
* steps to reproduce

In most cases it is of interest to the developers to look at the Sugar logs. Instructions how to get the logs can be seen [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad/Get_Logs here].

0.88/Testing

2010-02-14T05:00:31Z

Satyaakam: /* Attendees */

{{TOCright}}

=Meetings=

== Testing Day February the 16th ==
This will be an asynchronous effort, hence "Testing day" :). However we will do two kickstart meetings. One at 14:00 UTC and one at 19:00 UTC. In these meetings we will give a short introduction to what to test and answer questions about how to get the image on a usb-key and of course how to gather the results.

=== When ===
* Kickoff-Meeting 1: 14:00 UTC
* Kickoff-Meeting 2: 19:00 UTC

===Where===
This meeting will be an online meeting using IRC, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRC Internet Relay Chat]. You can read here more how to use [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Contacts#IRC.2C_Internet_Relay_Chat IRC] to join the meeting. The meeting will be taking place on the channel #sugar on the irc.freenode.net server.
* IRC Channel: #sugar Server: irc.freenode.net

=== Attendees ===

Are you planning to attend? Add your name and your expertise below!

{| border=1 cellpadding=3 style="border: 1px solid white; border-collapse: collapse; background: #e3e4e5;"
|-style="background:#787878; color: white;"
! Name !! Tester !! Feature owner !! Coordinator !! Special skills
|-
! [[User:Erikos | Simon Schampijer]]
| yes || yes || yes
|-
! [[User:Sdz | Sebastian Dziallas]]
| yes || no || [[Sugar_on_a_Stick|soas]]
|-
! [[User:Rkabir | Ryan Kabir]]
| yes || no || no
|-
! [[User:Mchua|Mel chua]]
| yes || no || [http://blog.melchua.com/category/soas/ soas pilot] || community QA, SMW-based test case systems
|
|-
|[[User:Satyag|Satyaakam Goswami]] || yes ||no || http://translate.sugarlabs.org/hi/ Hindi Translation || testing
|}

===Testing image===
[http://shell.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/soas-testing-day-13-02-10.iso Soas Testing day build]

(This is the [http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/ latest soas nightly build]. At the moment starting activities is broken in that build. As this is a daily snapshot it will not be fixed in time for the meeting, hence use the build from the link above.)

=Testing plans=
==0.88 Features==
We use the section "How to test" of the Feature page.

* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Enhanced_Gettext#How_To_Test Enhanced Gettext Testing plan] - Enhanced Gettext adds an extra search path for translation files for Sugar activities. This would allow deployments to add and update activity translations independently of the release process.

* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/3G_Support#How_To_Test 3G Support Testing plan] - Allow the Sugar user to connect to 3G networks.

* [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Font_configuration#How_To_Test Font configuration] - Distributors/deployers need a way to be able to customize the Sugar font size.

==Language Tests==
* There was an issue with unpackaged languages.
** [1] Danish (da): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "Du skal skrive et navn.")
** [1] Malagasy (mg): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "Tsy maintsy mampiditra anarana ianao")
** Albania (sq): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "Vetem emri duhet shkruar")
** Swedish (sv): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "Du måste ange ett namn.")
** Swahili (sw): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "Lazima uingize jina lako")
** Tamil (ta): Control Panel, about me section: (msgid "You must enter a name." msgstr "நீங்கள் பெயரை பதிவு செய்யுங்கள்.")
* Test your own native language (can be set using the Control Panel)

==Bug Fix testing==
* [-1, -1] Synchronize changes made to a Journal entry {{Bug|1358}}
** Start a new Activity from the home fav view (e.g Browse)
** Switch to Journal
** Favourite star it, edit the title, in detail view add description and/or tags
** Switch back to Journal list view (i.e don't leave in Journal details view)
** Switch to Activity instance
** Switch back to Journal view
** All Journal metadata details should be still there
* [0] Several Access Points with the same essid {{Bug|330}}
* [1] Name input screen should be deactivable {{Bug|1497}}
* [0] Create temporary files for DS in ~/.sugar {{Bug|1452}}
* [0] can't connect to WEP shared key networks {{Bug|1602}}
* [0] intro screen doesn't unfreeze dcon {{Bug|1601}}
* [0] copy-to-journal dbus error {{Bug|573}}
* [0] file descriptor leak in filestore.retrieve() {{Bug|1550}}
* [0] range queries use lexical comparison, not numerical {{Bug|1342}}
* [0] add and use type information for Xapian value-stored properties {{Bug|1437}}

Legend: 0 means untested, 1 means does work, -1 does not work for me (there can be several 1 and -1)

=Instructions to flash Soas=
You can use the [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry Blueberry instructions] to flash Sugar on a Stick on your usb device.

livecd-iso-to-disk_to_write_live_USB possibly '''unsupported''' [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category:Liveusb#livecd-iso-to-disk_to_write_live_USB] if using Fedora

=How to write a good bug report=
You should note the following in the bug report:
* the version you are using
* steps to reproduce

In most cases it is of interest to the developers to look at the Sugar logs. Instructions how to get the logs can be seen [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad/Get_Logs here].

Ubuntu

2009-08-12T18:00:22Z

Satyaakam:

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[[Image:Ubuntu.jpg]]

= Sugar on Ubuntu =

The Sugar packages for Ubuntu provide a Sugar environment that is easy to install and can be configured as an X session in gdm or run in a window with sugar-emulator.

It is a much simpler platform to set up for activity developers than jhbuild, although is not bleeding-edge.

:{I might get flamed for this; I know I shouldn't post on a wiki like this, but no one will read the discussion: can we list a simple way of installing from jhbuild on Ubuntu 9.04 or installing from a PPA? Is 0.83 in the Ubuntu sugar PPA recent enough? How about installing from source (not git/jhbuild) and then adding an X session? With Ubuntu being the most popular Linux distribution, it is in the interest of this project to flesh out these details.}

Sugar on Ubuntu is packaged and maintained by the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SugarTeam Ubuntu Sugar team], who welcome new contributors to test, document, triage, and make packages.

[https://launchpad.net/sugar Sugar bug reporting Ubuntu].

== Sugar on Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) ==

Jaunty, the current Ubuntu release, has Sucrose 0.83 packages synced from [[Community/Distributions/Debian|Debian]].

Sugar does not work out-of-the-box under Jaunty as of 2009-07-01, although there is a workaround. See the [[Talk:Community/Distributions/Ubuntu|discussion here]] for more information.

:That work around doesn't work.--[[User:Dennis Daniels|Dennis Daniels]] 00:38, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

0.84 Works for me from https://launchpad.net/~alsroot/+archive/ppa package name is sugar-platform --[[User:Satyaakam]] 22:00,12 August 2009 (IST)

=== Installing ===

Installation instructions:
sudo apt-get install sugar sugar-activities

== Sugar on Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) ==

Intrepid, the previous Ubuntu release, has Sucrose 0.82 packages synced from [[Community/Distributions/Debian|Debian]].

=== Installing ===

Installation instructions:
sudo apt-get install sugar sugar-activities

=== Running Sugar ===

Run sugar in a window under a gnome login, using the Applications menu > Other > Sugar Emulator, or running the following in a terminal:
sugar-emulator

If everything is working fine, you can log into Sugar from the gdm login screen instead of running sugar-emulator.


=== Upgrading ===

If you are experiencing problems after upgrading from 8.04 (Hardy), please do the following to uninstall the partially-upgraded packages:
sudo apt-get purge sugar sugar-\*
and repeat the installation command outlined above to install only the new packages.

=== Reporting Bugs ===

If you need log files for debugging, use the following command in a GNOME terminal ''(not Sugar Terminal)'' to run sugar with debug logs turned on:
SUGAR_LOGGER_LEVEL=debug PRESENCESERVICE_DEBUG=1 sugar-emulator

This generates log files in the .sugar/default/logs directory under your home directory.

To report a bug on Sugar or one of the Sugar activities on Ubuntu, use the following steps:
* Go to https://launchpad.net/sucrose which represents all the Sugar components and activities supported in Ubuntu.
* Click on the appropriate component at the bottom of the page. If in doubt, click "Sugar shell" which is the base Sugar component.
* On the resulting page, scroll down to "Packages" and click on the hardy or intrepid package.
* On the resulting page, click on the "Bugs" tab at the top of the page.
* That takes you to a page listing known bugs on the package, and with a red "Report a bug" button.

Please include any relevant log files in a bug report: activity log files usually are named similarly to "org.laptop.Chat-1.log" (which is the log file for Chat). If you have run the activity multiple times in the current Sugar session, there will be Chat-2, Chat-3, etc so try to include the appropriate one.

If a problem or bug involves seeing (or not seeing) people in Neighborhood View, or activity sharing/collaboration, please also include presenceservice.log in the bug report.

'''Please note''': The Ubuntu Sugar team will do their best to provide fixes for bugs, but it does take time to get an updated package uploaded through Ubuntu's [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates Stable Release Updates] process. Where possible we'll suggest a workaround, or provide a fix in the [https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam/+archive Sugar Team PPA] first.

== Sugar on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (hardy) ==

hardy includes an old version of Sugar, 0.79. You can install the current stable release of Sugar, 0.82, with the instructions below.

For bug reporting, please follow the instructions above as for intrepid.

=== Sugar 0.79.0 ===

'''Old, but included in Hardy'''

Sugar was packaged in Universe for Hardy (Ubuntu 8.04) by Jani Monoses. The version packaged is 0.79.0, similar to the version in OLPC Release 8.1.0.

[http://janimo.blogspot.com/2008/02/sugar-finally-in-hardy-universe.html Installation instructions]

There are extra packages in a [https://launchpad.net/~sugar/+archive/ PPA], including activities that could not be included in the Ubuntu archive due to license issues, as well as updated abiword packages.

We do recommend using the version 0.82 packages instead, as mentioned below:

=== Sucrose 0.82 ===

'''Up-to-date version, extra repository'''

The Ubuntu packages were updated to the latest [[Development Team/Release/Releases/Sucrose/0.82|0.82]] point release in the [https://launchpad.net/~sugarteam/+archive Sugar Team PPA].

Installation instructions:
sudo -s
echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugarteam/ubuntu hardy main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sugar.list
apt-get update
apt-get install sugar sugar-emulator sugar-activities

Not working, tried it from Hardy Install 05/06/2009 [satellit]

== Using sugar PPAs ==

Another way to start sugar on Ubuntu is using sugar-* PPA.

'''NOTE''' sugar-* PPAs use packages generated by [[Deployment_Team/jhconvert|jhconvert]], so if you have sugar packages installed by another method you need to remove them all:
sudo apt-get remove -f $(dpkg-query -l | grep -e sugar -e olpc | awk '{print $2}')

Before attaching ppa, load gpg key
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv F265806A9BFFF0F4
gpg --export --armor F265806A9BFFF0F4 | sudo apt-key add -

To use sugar-0.84 on 9.04(jaunty)
sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alsroot/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sugar-platform

To use sugar-0.84 on 9.10(karmic)
sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alsroot/ppa/ubuntu karmic main >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sugar-platform

To use sugar-0.86 on 9.10(karmic)
sudo sh -c 'echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alsroot/sugar-0.86/ubuntu karmic main >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sugar-platform

= ejabberd collaboration server on Ubuntu =

We use ejabberd for a collaboration server. Ubuntu 8.10 ships with the required patches included in ejabberd, so you can install ejabberd, configure it and have working collaboration within minutes, using these installation instructions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd/deb

For Ubuntu 8.04 you need to build from source: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Installing_ejabberd

[[Category:Supported systems]]