Activities/Activity Library

Ideas

• support 0install by design
  • use .xo format only if requested by user
  • otherwise, activities should just start by click
  • activities will be represented by regular 0install feeds
    • more flexible dependency checking than on ASLO (currently, only SP version), if activity requires a recent gst to run, it just declares that gst version
    • a variety of activity versions will be checked at runtime to detect what versions could be run on that particular machine before launching
    • with 0launch (or with a special variant) it will be possible to run Library activities out of the Activity Library activity

• support forks
  • bundle_id should not be owned by any one developer. For the same bundle_id, there could be dozens of activities (and not only direct forks)

• no strict editors policy
  • by default (or at least, there should be such an option), any user can launch any activity w/o additional steps (such as being logged in to ASLO)
  • there could be review profiles. A user could apply such a profile to disperse all activities to reviewing groups, e.g., Featured, Major, Trash etc.
  • such profiles could be also created for particular deployment and tested by QA teams

• support 0install stability profiles, e.g., Stable, Development, Buggy

• support local user profile, e.g.,
  • use only Stable versions
  • make my-favorite-developer's activities always show while using list

• one button click update, i.e., synchronize current activities with server's (taking into account

• provide centralized stats that are easy-to-use by activity developers (option in activity.info), and easy-to-view by Activity Library users.
  • counting successful/failed launches by SP level, could be useful to judge activity stability
  • tracking average duration of use or number of launches, etc.

Hierarchy of libraries

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 01:58:34PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:46:06AM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> > Will it support multiple libraries, for the same of decentralizing
> > things?
> > 
> > I can imagine that many deployments would want a hierarchical thing to
> > save bandwidth and delegate decisions to school principals: the
> > schoolserver would be the first place where children search for
> > activities, then would come the deployment server and lastly ASLO.
> 
> Thanks, this hierarchical structure will be useful not only on pure
> server side but on peers side as well, like:
> 
> * someone added bunch of cool activities to his list (w/o
>   downloading|launching them)
> * shares his Activity_Library instance
> * any joined user can see|download|launch these activities

Related resources

• Collab mockup

TODO

• merge Features/Zero Sugar Activities with this page