Music Blocks/2026-03-08

Reports:

Hari -- Discussion about git backend

Syed -- Working on v4

Ashutosh -- Installed Sugar on laptop; worked on performance-related issues; cleaned up spam PRs

Jenish -- CICD pipelines

Kartik -- How to submit a proposal? Send to sugar-devel

Parth -- (left before called)

Vanishka -- Working on Broken Calculator Activity; working on reading PRs

Vyag -- Looking at reflection

Naitik -- Worked on reviews

Nikhil -- Git backend project

Shreya -- Had a meeting on lessons

Aman -- AI Optimization Project

Om Suneri -- Needs time to discuss after meeting

Sonal -- CICD

Krishna -- worked on security and stability

Discussions

CICD Pipelines and security

Assign a code owner files to restrict who can merge into PRs <-- right now, only a select few are able to merge, so this may not be an issue

Use semi-automation to help

GTK projects

Met with Krish; the scope may be too big

AI Guidelines

We have guidelines on Sugar AI

Devin TODO: https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/issues/5865 and 5866

Constructionism

Aesthetic -- helping a user by creating an environment that they feel comfortable trying things out and asking what they like, which they prefer, do these things compliment each other; if not, perhaps create something that does (for example in the Phrase Maker).

AI Guardrails

Devin's suggestions:

• No image creation
• No profanity -- perhaps add a time penalty if user uses profanity
• Other corner cases -- AI bots getting too friendly**; off-topic; fabricating lies from well-known science/history things without warning

• • I've seen kids get the bot to say it was their grandparents or parents, after asked by students. We should probably avoid that.

Ashutosh -- how improved MB