Summer of Code/2012/autorpmgen - Revision history

Callkalpa: /* You and the community */

2012-02-17T05:07:43Z

You and the community

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	== You and the community ==		== You and the community ==
	1. If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.		1. If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.
	:*autorpmgen will enable students who doesn't have a xo lap to experience ALL the sugar activities which are currently available on their rpm based distro box. Further it will be beneficial to projects like Sugar on a Stick which is based on Fedora. SoaS will also include more and more sugar activities in future of course will be beneficial to students who even doesn't have a rpm based distro box. They can just plug their USB stick and get the full experience. Activities will be exposed to a more wide community of students, teachers and developers which in turn will result in more and more feedback and ultimately the activities will get better and better and will more suit the needs. That is we are reaching more students with better quality products		:*autorpmgen will enable students who doesn't have a xo lap to experience ALL the sugar activities which are currently available on their rpm based distro box. Further it will be beneficial to projects like Sugar on a Stick which is based on Fedora. SoaS will also include more and more sugar activities in future of course will be beneficial to students who even doesn't have a rpm based distro box. They can just plug their USB stick and get the full experience. Activities will be exposed to a more wide community of students, teachers and developers which in turn will result in more and more feedback and ultimately the activities will get better and better and will more suit the needs. That is we are reaching more students with better quality products. --[[User:Callkalpa\|Callkalpa]]
	::It is great to see so many Sugar activities being packaged... certainly will make life easier for the maintainers and those pulling together distros. I question the assertion that this will help nonSugar users without an accompanying effort to add the glue to launch Sugar activities outside of Sugar. A number of activities, e.g., Turtle Art, support this, but it is atypical. Perhaps a modeule that can get distributed with the RPMs that detects whether or not the Sugar environment is available and added replacement methods in the case it is not? We need to think this through. --[[User:Walter\|Walter]] 11:41, 16 February 2012 (EST)		:*It is great to see so many Sugar activities being packaged... certainly will make life easier for the maintainers and those pulling together distros. I question the assertion that this will help nonSugar users without an accompanying effort to add the glue to launch Sugar activities outside of Sugar. A number of activities, e.g., Turtle Art, support this, but it is atypical. Perhaps a modeule that can get distributed with the RPMs that detects whether or not the Sugar environment is available and added replacement methods in the case it is not? We need to think this through. --[[User:Walter\|Walter]] 11:41, 16 February 2012 (EST)

	2. What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?		2. What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?

Walter: /* You and the community */

2012-02-16T16:42:24Z

You and the community

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	== You and the community ==		== You and the community ==
	#If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.		1. If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.
	#*autorpmgen will enable students who doesn't have a xo lap to experience ALL the sugar activities which are currently available on their rpm based distro box. Further it will be beneficial to projects like Sugar on a Stick which is based on Fedora. SoaS will also include more and more sugar activities in future of course will be beneficial to students who even doesn't have a rpm based distro box. They can just plug their USB stick and get the full experience. Activities will be exposed to a more wide community of students, teachers and developers which in turn will result in more and more feedback and ultimately the activities will get better and better and will more suit the needs. That is we are reaching more students with better quality products		:*autorpmgen will enable students who doesn't have a xo lap to experience ALL the sugar activities which are currently available on their rpm based distro box. Further it will be beneficial to projects like Sugar on a Stick which is based on Fedora. SoaS will also include more and more sugar activities in future of course will be beneficial to students who even doesn't have a rpm based distro box. They can just plug their USB stick and get the full experience. Activities will be exposed to a more wide community of students, teachers and developers which in turn will result in more and more feedback and ultimately the activities will get better and better and will more suit the needs. That is we are reaching more students with better quality products
			::It is great to see so many Sugar activities being packaged... certainly will make life easier for the maintainers and those pulling together distros. I question the assertion that this will help nonSugar users without an accompanying effort to add the glue to launch Sugar activities outside of Sugar. A number of activities, e.g., Turtle Art, support this, but it is atypical. Perhaps a modeule that can get distributed with the RPMs that detects whether or not the Sugar environment is available and added replacement methods in the case it is not? We need to think this through. --[[User:Walter\|Walter]] 11:41, 16 February 2012 (EST)

	It is great to see so many Sugar activities being packaged... certainly will make life easier for the maintainers and those pulling together distros. I question the assertion that this will help nonSugar users without an accompanying effort to add the glue to launch Sugar activities outside of Sugar. A number of activities, e.g., Turtle Art, support this, but it is atypical. Perhaps a modeule that can get distributed with the RPMs that detects whether or not the Sugar environment is available and added replacement methods in the case it is not? We need to think this through. ~~--[[User:Walter\|Walter]] 11:41, 16 February 2012 (EST)~~		2. What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
			:*First of all I try myself and next I seek for help in other source such as mailing lists, irc (#sugar #fedora-devel on freenode) and past GSoCers of Sugar Labs. I firmly believe that always there will be some path where I can get the information I need.
	#What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?		3. How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?
	#*First of all I try myself and next I seek for help in other source such as mailing lists, irc (#sugar #fedora-devel on freenode) and past GSoCers of Sugar Labs. I firmly believe that always there will be some path where I can get the information I need.		:*It is mainly my [http://www.kalpapathum.blogspot.com\| blog] that I intend to use as the medium to inform the rest of the world on my progress. About the problems and questions, I will be using the specific developer resources and mailing lists and irc as well.
	#How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?
	#*It is mainly my [http://www.kalpapathum.blogspot.com\| blog] that I intend to use as the medium to inform the rest of the world on my progress. About the problems and questions, I will be using the specific developer resources and mailing lists and irc as well.

	== Miscellaneous ==		== Miscellaneous ==

Walter: /* You and the community */

2012-02-16T16:41:09Z

You and the community

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	== You and the community ==		== You and the community ==
	#If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.		#If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.
	#*autorpmgen will enable students who doesn't have a xo lap to experience ALL the sugar activities which are currently available on their rpm based distro box. Further it will be beneficial to projects like Sugar on a Stick which is based on Fedora. SoaS will also include more and more sugar activities in future of course will be beneficial to students who even doesn't have a rpm based distro box. They can just plug their USB stick and get the full experience. Activities will be exposed to a more wide community of students, teachers and developers which in turn will result in more and more feedback and ultimately the activities will get better and better and will more suit the needs. That is we are reaching more students with better quality products.		#*autorpmgen will enable students who doesn't have a xo lap to experience ALL the sugar activities which are currently available on their rpm based distro box. Further it will be beneficial to projects like Sugar on a Stick which is based on Fedora. SoaS will also include more and more sugar activities in future of course will be beneficial to students who even doesn't have a rpm based distro box. They can just plug their USB stick and get the full experience. Activities will be exposed to a more wide community of students, teachers and developers which in turn will result in more and more feedback and ultimately the activities will get better and better and will more suit the needs. That is we are reaching more students with better quality products

			It is great to see so many Sugar activities being packaged... certainly will make life easier for the maintainers and those pulling together distros. I question the assertion that this will help nonSugar users without an accompanying effort to add the glue to launch Sugar activities outside of Sugar. A number of activities, e.g., Turtle Art, support this, but it is atypical. Perhaps a modeule that can get distributed with the RPMs that detects whether or not the Sugar environment is available and added replacement methods in the case it is not? We need to think this through. --[[User:Walter\|Walter]] 11:41, 16 February 2012 (EST)

	#What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?		#What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
	#*First of all I try myself and next I seek for help in other source such as mailing lists, irc (#sugar #fedora-devel on freenode) and past GSoCers of Sugar Labs. I firmly believe that always there will be some path where I can get the information I need.		#*First of all I try myself and next I seek for help in other source such as mailing lists, irc (#sugar #fedora-devel on freenode) and past GSoCers of Sugar Labs. I firmly believe that always there will be some path where I can get the information I need.

Callkalpa: /* About You */

2012-02-16T15:50:16Z

About You

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	#What is your name? Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda		#What is your name? Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda
	#What is your email address? callkalpa@gmail.com		#What is your email address? callkalpa@gmail.com
	#What is your Sugar Labs wiki username?		#What is your Sugar Labs wiki username? [[User:Callkalpa\|Callkalpa]]
	#What is your IRC nickname? callkalpa		#What is your IRC nickname? callkalpa
	#What is your primary language? English		#What is your primary language? English
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	#Have you participated in an open-source project before?		#Have you participated in an open-source project before?
	#* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Callkalpa		#* http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Callkalpa
			#* http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Callkalpa
	#* http://openhatch.org/people/callkalpa/		#* http://openhatch.org/people/callkalpa/

Callkalpa: /* Miscellaneous */

2012-02-16T07:21:09Z

Miscellaneous

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	== Miscellaneous ==		== Miscellaneous ==
	#We want to make sure that you can set up a development environment before the summer starts. ~~Please send us a link to a screenshot of your Sugar development environment with the following modification~~: ~~when you hover over the XO-person icon in the middle of Home view, the drop~~-~~down text should have your email in place of "Restart~~.~~" See~~ the ~~image on~~ the ~~right for an example. It's normal to need assistance with this, so please visit our IRC channel, #sugar on irc.freenode.net, and ask for help.~~		#We want to make sure that you can set up a development environment before the summer starts.
			#* [http://callkalpa.fedorapeople.org/sugar-devel.png here is the link to the screenshot]
	#What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)		#What is your t-shirt size? (Yes, we know Google asks for this already; humor us.)
			#* Medium
	#Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.		#Describe a great learning experience you had as a child.
			#* I woudld like to mention about my entrance to the world of programming. I started with GWBASIC on those good old days and gradually improved through Visual Basic, python, C and java. I prefer to learn and explore things by myself and I am thankful to my parents for allowing me to do what I have an interest on. From childhood to this point, it was a great learning experience in terms of programming and other aspects as well. Even in the event of getting the sugar development environment work properly I came across some issues which I tried my self and blogged [http://kalpapathum.blogspot.com/2012/02/sugar-jhbuild-update-bundlemodule-has.html here]. It is always happy to follow trial and error method when there are no other possible alternatives visible or reachable.
	#Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?		#Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?
			#* I have got a xo lap myself thanks to [[User:pbrobinson\|pbrobinson]]

Callkalpa: /* You and the community */

2012-02-10T04:42:53Z

You and the community

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	#*First of all I try myself and next I seek for help in other source such as mailing lists, irc (#sugar #fedora-devel on freenode) and past GSoCers of Sugar Labs. I firmly believe that always there will be some path where I can get the information I need.		#*First of all I try myself and next I seek for help in other source such as mailing lists, irc (#sugar #fedora-devel on freenode) and past GSoCers of Sugar Labs. I firmly believe that always there will be some path where I can get the information I need.
	#How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?		#How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?
	#*It is mainly ~~me [~~[http://www.kalpapathum.blogspot.com\| blog]] that I intend to use as the medium to inform the rest of the world on my progress. About the problems and questions, I will be using the specific developer resources and mailing lists and irc as well.		#*It is mainly my [http://www.kalpapathum.blogspot.com\| blog] that I intend to use as the medium to inform the rest of the world on my progress. About the problems and questions, I will be using the specific developer resources and mailing lists and irc as well.

	== Miscellaneous ==		== Miscellaneous ==

Callkalpa: /* You and the community */

2012-02-10T04:41:53Z

You and the community

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	== You and the community ==		== You and the community ==
	#If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.		#If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.
	#*autorpmgen will enable students who doesn't have a xo lap to experience ALL the sugar activities which are currently available on their rpm based distro box. Further it will be beneficial to projects like Sugar on a Stick which is based on Fedora. SoaS will also include more and more sugar activities in future of course will be beneficial to students who even doesn't have a rpm based distro box. They can just plug their USB stick and get the full experience. Activities will be exposed to a more wide community of students, teachers and developers which in turn will result in more and more feedback and ultimately the activities will get better and better and will more suit the needs.		#*autorpmgen will enable students who doesn't have a xo lap to experience ALL the sugar activities which are currently available on their rpm based distro box. Further it will be beneficial to projects like Sugar on a Stick which is based on Fedora. SoaS will also include more and more sugar activities in future of course will be beneficial to students who even doesn't have a rpm based distro box. They can just plug their USB stick and get the full experience. Activities will be exposed to a more wide community of students, teachers and developers which in turn will result in more and more feedback and ultimately the activities will get better and better and will more suit the needs. That is we are reaching more students with better quality products.
	#What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?		#What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
			#*First of all I try myself and next I seek for help in other source such as mailing lists, irc (#sugar #fedora-devel on freenode) and past GSoCers of Sugar Labs. I firmly believe that always there will be some path where I can get the information I need.
	#How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?		#How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?
			#*It is mainly me [[http://www.kalpapathum.blogspot.com\| blog]] that I intend to use as the medium to inform the rest of the world on my progress. About the problems and questions, I will be using the specific developer resources and mailing lists and irc as well.

	== Miscellaneous ==		== Miscellaneous ==

Callkalpa: /* You and the community */

2012-02-10T04:35:45Z

You and the community

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	== You and the community ==		== You and the community ==
	#If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.		#If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Sugar Labs community? Give 3 answers, each 1-3 paragraphs in length. The first one should be yours. The other two should be answers from members of the Sugar Labs community, at least one of whom should be a Sugar Labs GSoC mentor. Provide email contact information for non-GSoC mentors.
			#*autorpmgen will enable students who doesn't have a xo lap to experience ALL the sugar activities which are currently available on their rpm based distro box. Further it will be beneficial to projects like Sugar on a Stick which is based on Fedora. SoaS will also include more and more sugar activities in future of course will be beneficial to students who even doesn't have a rpm based distro box. They can just plug their USB stick and get the full experience. Activities will be exposed to a more wide community of students, teachers and developers which in turn will result in more and more feedback and ultimately the activities will get better and better and will more suit the needs.
	#What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?		#What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
	#How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?		#How do you propose you will be keeping the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?

Callkalpa: /* About your project */

2012-02-10T04:15:21Z

About your project

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	#*The idea is to maintain a ini file like file for each activity and generate the spec file out from that and finally generate the rpm. There is [http://wiki.meego.com/Spectacle Spectacle], a tool to generate spec out of a ini file and [http://rm-rf.ca/tito Tito] which can be used to build rpm from the spec file.		#*The idea is to maintain a ini file like file for each activity and generate the spec file out from that and finally generate the rpm. There is [http://wiki.meego.com/Spectacle Spectacle], a tool to generate spec out of a ini file and [http://rm-rf.ca/tito Tito] which can be used to build rpm from the spec file.
	#What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is 7 weeks long, May 23 - August 10; tell us what you will be working on each week.		#What is the timeline for development of your project? The Summer of Code work period is 7 weeks long, May 23 - August 10; tell us what you will be working on each week.
	#*~~May 21 - 27~~		#* 1st and 2nd week : Generate ini file (details extracted from the activity.info file in each activity and from other sources related)
	#*~~May 27 - June 03~~		#* 3rd week : generate spec file from the ini file
	#*~~June 04 - 10~~		#* 4th and 5th week : generate rpm from the spec
	#*~~June 11 - 17~~		#* 6th week : establish a repo for the rpms
	#*~~June 18 - 24~~		#* 7th week : implement the new activity submission and update submission feature
	#*~~June 25 - July 01~~		#* ''Here I have outlined my schedule only for coding. Evaluations will be there and the schedule is subjected to undergo changes as necessary. For generating the ini file and rpm, I have allocated two weeks each and this is with a safety time margin. I don't think they will take that long to implement.''
	~~#*July 01 - 06~~
	#Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.		#Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.
	#*I've been packaging some of the sugar activities for Fedora which is directly related to the core of this proposal. I started with Ruler about 6 months ago with the guidance of [[User:pbrobinson\|Peter Robinson]]. Since then I have been maintaining and co-maintaining around 10 packages associated with sugar activities. I am familiar with python and bash scripting as well.		#*I've been packaging some of the sugar activities for Fedora which is directly related to the core of this proposal. I started with Ruler about 6 months ago with the guidance of [[User:pbrobinson\|Peter Robinson]]. Since then I have been maintaining and co-maintaining around 10 packages associated with sugar activities. I am familiar with python and bash scripting as well.

Callkalpa: /* About your project */

2012-02-10T03:58:44Z

About your project

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	#*July 01 - 06		#*July 01 - 06
	#Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.		#Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant.
	#*I've been packaging some of the sugar activities for Fedora which is directly related to the core of this proposal. I started with Ruler about 6 months ago with the guidance of [[User:pbrobinson\|Peter Robinson]]. Since then I have been maintaining and co-maintaining around 10 packages associated with sugar activities.		#*I've been packaging some of the sugar activities for Fedora which is directly related to the core of this proposal. I started with Ruler about 6 months ago with the guidance of [[User:pbrobinson\|Peter Robinson]]. Since then I have been maintaining and co-maintaining around 10 packages associated with sugar activities. I am familiar with python and bash scripting as well.
	#** Packages I maintain/co-maintain at Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/callkalpa		#** Packages I maintain/co-maintain at Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/users/packages/callkalpa