Sugar on a Stick/Getting Involved
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Send us your Thoughts
Try our community-powered support site, http://launchpad.net/soas, or send e-mail to feedback@sugarlabs.org or iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org, our "It's an Education Project" mailing list.
Help with Project Design
See Sugar on a Stick/Goals, Sugar on a Stick/Roadmap, & Sugar on a Stick/Resources planning discussions and Blueprints for Sugar on a Stick for feature proposals and tracking.
Help with Deployment
- We are experimenting with the Sugar Labs Moodle system to help in coordinating deployment work on this project.
- Deployment Team/School_Key Information on various Sugar on a Stick deployments.
- Protocol for April 17 Olin Play Session
- Notes from April 18th YMCA Healthy Kids Day
Help with Testing
With new builds coming frequently, it is sometimes hard to keep track of known problems and temporary workarounds. Sometimes a build will not complete the boot process, or only start certain services.
Testers can help other testers by organizing some of their findings here. Remember different hardware combinations may have different results.
Fedora Test Day 03 September 2009 (SoaS v2 beta)
- Announcement: http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg08463.html
- Details: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-09-03_SoaS
SoaS v1 Strawberry
Download Sugar on a Stick/Strawberry.
Testing SoaS
Software Testing
See Smoke test, and give technical feedback on soas@lists.sugarlabs.org.
Please keep notes on which version of Sugar on a Stick you have downloaded when reporting issues. You can refer to the name of the .iso file from the download source.
- When booting SoaS, you'll see for a short time a Fedora screen showing a blue solar system.
- By pressing the keyboard 'Escape' key here, you can get to Fedora's boot menu.
- There, you should find the images name in the following structure: Soas{version number}-{date of creation}
- Pressing 'Tab' key from the boot menu will reveal the bootstrap command line. Removing the final command line parameter, 'rhgb' (RedHat graphical boot) using backspace and pressing the 'Enter' key will result in diagnostic messages being displayed on your console. Removing the 'quiet' parameter will print even more detailed messages.
Sugar version
To find out which version of the Sugar component you are using, you can look it up in the 'About my Computer' Section in 'My Settings'.
Bug reporting
Please file bug reports in The Sugar on a Stick bug tracker.
- Here are some instructions for using the bug tracker.
- See Sugar on a Stick/Bugs for all the tickets designated with the SoaS component/tag.
- You must register an account to enter new bugs.
- This link will take you to a new bug/ticket form for SoaS (once you are logged in).
- Archive note: (Beginning with SoaS v2 (but ending on 04 February 2010), bugs and new features were tracked at http://launchpad.net/soas. See this announcement and this announcement.)
User test notes
Casual observations may be reported on this wiki (cross link bugs reports and test notes, as appropriate, to help document the problem).
- Find your build version in the list of testing subpages below, or
- create a new subpage for an unlisted version by going to a page for a previous version.
- Then, in the address line of your browser, change the of the address string before the "&action=" segment to the version of the file (taken from the file date at the download page) and press <Enter>
(The full address line will be something like http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Index.php&title=SoaS/Testing/Soas03&action=edit) For more help on this process, see this help page section. - Then enter a header line for your setup.
- Finally, enter some observations.
- You may also include video notes, such as in Video Testing Sugar.
Future versions
- List all the activities you want to get included in SoaS on the roadmap wiki page, stating that you suggested it.
Join the development effort
- Development discussions take place on the Sugar-Devel email list, http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel.
- Real-time development chat is at irc://irc.freenode.net#sugar webchat irc client.
- Source files are at Gitorious SoaS home
- OLPC:Rawhide-XO for the closely-related development of Sugar for the XO-1 laptop on Fedora 11.
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Downloading alternative images
A variety of images for testing are available (see table below). Some of images might still be unstable; that means they might not work yet.
- The SoaS Strawberry release is currently based on Soas2-200906221314.iso. It's the most stable version we have right now, and is recommended for general testing purposes.
- The virtual appliances are not ready for general use and are under heavy development. Any help with testing them is also appreciated, though.
| available solution | current state | download location |
| SoaS3 Snapshot (announcement) |
varying quality | http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/soas04.iso |
| SoaS .vmdk Virtual Appliance of Snapshot | alpha quality | http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/appliances/soas3-20090807.zip |
| SoaS .vdi Virtual Appliance of Strawberry | alpha quality | http://www.sugarlabs.org/static/soas/soas-strawberry-vdi.zip |
| SoaS openSUSE Sugar (55+ activities) | beta quality | http://education.opensuse.org/download/ISOs/ - usb/cd/dvd/appliance images available |
Previous snapshots are provided in the subsequent directories on http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/.
Roadmap
Review and contribute to plans and schedules on the Project roadmap page.