Activity Team/FAQ
- Post questions here for the Activity Team.
About the Activity Team
Who is on the Activity Team?
- See Activity Team/Contacts for a list of team members.
How can I get in contact with you?
- Feel free to write messages on our talk pages, or just drop in on one of our meetings.
Activity Development questions
What Sugar Labs author resources should I be aware of?
- For new Activities:
- Create a Gitorious project repository at http://git.sugarlabs.org/ and start hacking on your code! :-)
- Request a trac component for your activity at http://dev.sugarlabs.org/
- Open a trac ticket to request addition to Pootle our translation system (if your strings are mature)
- Add your Activity to http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Roadmap if you want to be on the SoaS distro
- If your Activity is migrating over from the OLPC infrastructure:
- When releasing an existing Activity:
- If you have one, update your wiki page at http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/<actvity-name>
- Upload your new .xo bundle, screenshots, notes to http://activities.sugarlabs.org/
- Upload .bz2 source to shell.sugarlabs.org /upload/sugar/sources/honey
- Edit http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Source_Code and make sure it's pointing to your latest .bz2
Where do I find information about implementing X in Sugar?
- Check Activity Team/Resources for a comprehensive list of developer documentation, tutorials and support channels.
How do I get my activity to install an external dependancy?
- It doesn't! Activity bundles are supposed to be self-contained, and not depend on anything else other than the standard Sugar platform. If you need additional dependancies, you will need to include them within your activity bundle.
I have a question about Git, or Gitorious.
- See Activity Team/Git FAQ for a specific FAQ about Git and Gitorious.
How do I upload my new activity to the Activities Library?
- The best guide is Activity Team/How_to_migrate_from_OLPC, since that's where activities are coming from. As the infrastructure stabilizes and we get more new activities, we will post a new page.
How do I get my activity in the hands of students?
- The absolute best way to get your activity out into the world is to attend an [OLPC:Deployment_meetings OLPC deployment meeting] and suggest it to the deployment representatives. They can test your activity and offer feedback, and will ultimately decide whether it ships.
- Another good way is to post and promote your activity on activities.sugarlabs.org. This will get your activity into the hands of the G1G1 community and can be a stepping stone to getting included in the Sugar on a Stick distribution and in OLPC deployments.
Help! I suddenly can't push to Gitorious!
- The OSUOSL which hosts Gitorious has an aggressive IP blacklist policy. If you once were able to push but now cannot, send an email to support@osuosl.org requesting that your IP be removed from the blacklist.
Is there a Commits mailing list?
- Instead of a commits list, we use the RSS feed at http://git.sugarlabs.org/events.atom. This tracks the activity (commits, branches, comments, merge requests) of all projects hosted on Gitorious.
How do I get a trac component associated with my project?
- File a ticket with the request. Please assign the ticket to the trac component, mark it as a task and don't forget to mention the name of your project and the default owner for the tickets.