Google Code In 2014
This is the project page for the Sugar Labs application to Google Code In 2014. Sugar Labs community members: please feel free to add tasks below. We'll do an edit before final applications are due in late Oct 2014.
Message to potential participants
It is important that you obtain permission of your parents.
Es importante que obtengas el permiso de tus padres para participar.
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2014/help_page#eligible
Please see the Contest Rules for Eligibility and Registration process.
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/document/show/gci_program/google/gci2014/terms_and_conditions
Details regarding the required forms and paperwork are here: Google Code In 2014/Participate#Students.
Also, you will likely need to set up the Sugar development environment. See http://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html for details. Further information about contributing to the project can be found here: http://developer.sugarlabs.org/
Please don't hesitate to ask questions on our irc channel (#sugar on irc.freenode.net) or on the sugar-devel list: sugar-devel AT lists.sugarlabs DOT org
Why we are participating
Sugar is written and maintained by volunteers, who range from seasoned professionals to children as young as 12-years of age. Children who have grown up with Sugar have transitioned from Sugar users to Sugar App developers to Sugar maintainers. They hang out on IRC with the global Sugar developer community and are full-fledged members of the Sugar development team. It is this latter group of children we hope will participate in and benefit from Google Code-in. Specifically we want to re-enforce the message that Sugar belongs to its users and that they have both ownership and the responsibility that ownership implies. Just as learning is not something done to you, but something you do, learning with Sugar ultimately means participating in the Sugar development process. At Sugar Labs, we are trying to bring the culture of Free Software into the culture of school. So the Code-in is not just an opportunity for us to get some tasks accomplished, it is quintessential to our overall mission.
Tasks
Note: This is our preliminary list of tasks. We can add more as the contest progresses.
Mentors: please feel free to add more tasks and/or add yourself as a potential mentor to an existing task.
Tasks must fall within one of these five categories: #Documentation/Training; #Outreach/Research; #User Interface; #Quality Assurance; and #Code.
Documentation/Training
Tasks related to creating/editing documents and helping others learn more
| Title | Description | Hours | Mentor | Tag |
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Outreach/Research
Tasks related to community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions
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User Interface
Tasks related to user experience research or user interface design and interaction
| Title | Description | Hours | Mentor | Tag |
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Quality Assurance
Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality.
| Title | Description | Hours | Mentor | Tag |
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Code
Tasks related to writing or refactoring code
| Title | Description | Hours | Mentor | Tag |
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| Sharing Palette Highlight Bug | GTK3 Sharing Palette does not highlight the current selected option. The palette should highlight the icon of the selected option. This worked fine in GTK2. You can test with Chat (gtk2) and Browse (gtk3). Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4467 Relevant code: gtk3 themes at github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-artwork | 48 | Bug, Sugar, GTK, Theme | UI, Code |
| Magic Tool For Paint | The kids want the magic tools from TuxPaint in the sugar Paint activity. The teachers in Uruguay say the kids like the magic tools from TuxPaint. Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2838 Relevant code: https://github.com/godiard/paint-activity | 72 | Feature, Magic, Paint, Activity | Code |
| Use XO Game Keys For Stopwatch | Stopwatch must use the game keys! Icons in the buttons in the screen suggest the game buttons can be used to start/stop/reset the counters, but do not work. Probably the problem is the activity have many counters, and can't know what counter relate to the buttons. Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2976 Relevant Code: http://git.sugarlabs.org/stopwatch | 48 | Feature, Activity, Stopwatch, XO-Required | Code, UI |
| Clear Browse Cache on Crash | Browse cache can bloat up with time consuming valuable space on the laptop. On one laptop me and tch checked, there were 400MB of unaccessible files (mostly multimedia) in the Browse instance folder. We need a procedure to clean instance/ when starting browse (needs to check it is the only instance to avoid corner case of more than one browse instance). Another option is to check the date of partial files... Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2659#comment:6 Relevant code: https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity | 48 | Browse, Activity, Bug, Cache | Code |
| On Screen keyboard Covers Terminal | On terminal activity, the OSK is covering the text entry area. This means that they cannot be used in tablet (full-touch) mode, meaning that they cannot meet Objective #2487. Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4542 Relevant code: https://github.com/godiard/terminal-activity | 48 | Terminal, Bug, OSK, Touch, XO-Required, Activity | Code, UI |
| Pippy does not load example if no tabs present | Steps: open pippy, close all tabs, open an example (any), nothing will happen and is confusing, the log shows an ugly error. Ticket: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4782 Relevant code: https://github.com/walterbender/Pippy | 48 | Pippy, Bug, Activity | Code |
RAW FEED FROM B.SL.O
| Ticket | Description | Hours | Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3758 | Add Graph Plotter to Pootle; Remove deprecated Lybniz Graph Ploter from pootle | 48 | Bug localization | |
| 4542 | On-screen keyboard covers the text entry area on Terminal | 48 | Bug Terminal | |
| 4734 | Difficult for newbies to find sugar-love bugs | 48 | Bug bugs.sugarlabs.org | |
| 2659 | Browse should have a cache cleaning policy | 48 | Bug Browse | |
| 3218 | Labyrinth has errors when try to save the map | 48 | Bug | |
| 4132 | Xorg pointer emulation issues | 48 | Bug | |
| 4307 | clipboard.set_with_data/set_with_owner is not introspectable | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 4662 | No changes are saved in Write 94 on Fedora 20 TC2 | 48 | Bug Write | |
| 758 | Port to new tube API | 48 | Bug | |
| 1124 | Allow SoaS backup and restore from an XS server | 48 | Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) | |
| 1549 | Collaboration faults when resuming and then then] stopping a shared activity before connections are sucessfull | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 1770 | Write behavior using the keyboard switching key on XO | 48 | Bug Write | |
| 2195 | Control panel, timezone incorrectly calculated | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2371 | need documentation, both in-activity and on the wiki | 48 | Bug | |
| 2371 | need documentation, both in-activity and on the wiki | 48 | Bug | |
| 2554 | Accent problem with Write Activity | 48 | Bug Write | |
| 2638 | Translate all activity descriptions to ES | 48 | Bug activities.sugarlabs.org | |
| 2649 | Help - i18n required | 48 | Bug Help | |
| 2706 | TamTamsynth not playing sounds. | 48 | Bug TamTam | |
| 2867 | require release notes in ASLO | 48 | Bug activities.sugarlabs.org | |
| 2936 | IRC 10 should not default to #sugar-es but to #sugar | 48 | Bug Irc | |
| 3227 | schools fails to connect to db | 48 | Bug infrastructure | |
| 3326 | Telepathy signals connected twice when connecting to jabber | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 3613 | Webkit-based Browse needs a flash conditional enabler | 48 | Bug | |
| 3730 | Memorize: Error when closing the activity | 48 | Memorize | |
| 3833 | Palettes on the bottom of screen don't appear after rotation to portrait mode | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 3921 | Journal palette is not updated when I stay in the same column | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 4112 | Touchscreen OSK appears for run and clear | 48 | Bug Pippy | |
| 4166 | Long press timeout 'feels' longer than 0.5 seconds | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 4233 | bugs.sugarlabs.org: can not scroll in description field (touch) | 48 | Bug | |
| 4390 | Journal: start editing unwanted entry new | 48 | Sugar | |
| 4343 | Journal:Timeout to get the palette 'feels' really long | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 4461 | "Volume busy" dialog appear in Sugar | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 4613 | Neighborhood view should respect max_participants limit | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 4625 | Certificate installation required for Internet access on SA networks | 48 | Bug Browse | |
| 4627 | Terminal: crash on 13.2.0 | 48 | Bug Terminal | |
| 4638 | Browse: no palettes in sugar-build | 48 | Bug Browse | |
| 4709 | MenuItem at times do not trigger activate signal | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 4726 | Browse can't reproduce html5 video | 48 | Bug Browse | |
| 4735 | Sudden increase in the size of the screen in Calculate activity | 48 | Bug Calculate | |
| 4743 | missing AU translations | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 4782 | Pippy does not load example if no tabs present | 48 | Bug Pippy | |
| 305 | Checkbox/Radio button outline on black panel disappears in mouseover selection highlight | 48 | Bug 102.0 Sugar | |
| 362 | can't register with multiple school servers | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 381 | Neighbourhood view icons should be placed in a spatially repeatable way | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 382 | Review Browse Tickets still in OLPC Trac | 48 | Bug | |
| 521 | Changing each others paint brush color | 48 | Bug Colors | |
| 806 | Activities list view is very similar to Journal view and users delete activities instead of journal entries | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 856 | Lesson text for Flipstick is not available for translation | 48 | Bug Flipsticks | |
| 922 | HIG: Bottom frame is used for devices, not actions | 48 | Bug documentation | |
| 933 | Neighbourhood shared Activity title re-named by someone else re-joining | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 971 | Global bookmarks in Browse | 48 | Bug | |
| 995 | SoaS: can't transfer files on USB to/from journal | 48 | Sugar on a Stick (SoaS) | |
| 1051 | loads of get_file() invocations and short-lived file paths during activity installation | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 1167 | Screen resolution is problematic in Maze and Physics (The activity extends beyond the screen) | 48 | Bug | |
| 1181 | Registration should be async | 48 | Sugar | |
| 1245 | sugar crash when i use tam tam jam activity | 48 | Bug TamTam | |
| 1303 | Peru package activities tested we send you the logs we find it | 48 | Bug ActivityTeam | |
| 1429 | Home view object's long titles aren't formated like everywhere else | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 1442 | Reject activity bundles which require a newer version of Sugar | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 1490 | home screen: "start new" behaviour not reset if non-<alt> modifier active while releasing <alt> | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 1561 | Most activities and Sugar itself chokes if the type of metadata returned is different from the expected one | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 1588 | XO Help fails in XO-1 running F11-XO1/os9 with Sugar 0.84.7 | 48 | Bug ActivityTeam | |
| 1606 | XOs should be able to share software via USB and CD/DVD | 48 | Bug Toaster | |
| 1646 | No way to force-close (kill) an activity | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 1796 | Proposed activity for best English-language learn-to-read website | 48 | Bug ActivityTeam | |
| 1871 | OLPC-Colors Activity – Paint tab ‘Center image’ button is not working | 48 | Bug Colors | |
| 1894 | OLPC-Colors Activity – when we minimize and maximize the screen, tab names are not displayed | 48 | Bug Colors | |
| 1895 | OLPC- SocialCalc Activity – Sub tabs and menus are overwritten by main tabs. | 48 | Bug SEETA | |
| 1936 | sugar.datastore.datastore.find() breaks for large data stores | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2199 | Rainbow changes Python's sys.executable, breaking 0launch's GUI | 48 | Bug | |
| 2355 | Neighborhood shows Jabber account id (hex_number@server.domain) instead of nick name reopened | 48 | Sugar | |
| 2373 | add support for Object Chooser | 48 | Bug | |
| 2478 | Buttons unresponsive when launching Sugar until Journal appears on Home View | 48 | Sugar | |
| 2494 | Pootle Admin right for Arabic | 48 | Bug localization | |
| 2503 | View-source does not close when activity closes | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2525 | Wrong query specification for datastore.find() | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2546 | Edit tab delete an unselected X deletes the displayed file rather than file whose X was clicked | 48 | Bug PyDebug | |
| 2570 | gdk window obscured events don't always happen | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2583 | Blocku needs i18n support | 48 | Bug Blocku | |
| 2640 | IRC should have a $LANG tab | 48 | Bug Irc | |
| 2702 | "Invite to <activity>" shown even for activities that don't support sharing | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2811 | Tam Tam Mini: a sound start and never stops | 48 | Bug TamTam | |
| 2818 | New/upgraded activities are added to Favourites View | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2822 | Software Update selects new activities by default | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2833 | add support for PDF export | 48 | Bug Browse | |
| 2861 | No palette for SVG images | 48 | Bug Browse | |
| 2957 | handle lack of ALIASING and SIMPLE_PRESENCE | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2962 | Rerigister on jabber server | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2963 | Sugar telepathy code does not take into account presence status of buddies | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2967 | Disable telepathy plugins on sugar shell level | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2976 | Stopwatch must use the game keys | 48 | Bug StopWatch | |
| 2978 | Remove hierachy-changed signal handlers when not needed | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2982 | Reconnect to jabber server in CP even if it was not changed | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 2992 | GSM palette 1 hour off | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 3004 | Poll activity not working on Sugar 0.92 | 48 | Bug | |
| 3006 | Ad-hoc network icon mixup | 48 | Sugar | |
| 3118 | presence: shell is not notified when we quit Sugar | 48 | Bug Sugar | |
| 3119 | traceback after Sugar startup | 48 | Bug Sugar |
Mentors
- NOTES TO MENTORS
- Please refer to Google Code In 2014/Participate#Mentors for details regarding enrolling as a mentor.
- Please add yourself to the list below.
- Feel free to add new tasks to the table above.
Depending on the project, we will assign multiple mentors from our various development and support teams.
- Walter Bender - also org admin for GCI