July 2010 Archives

There's a new home for Etherpad packages.

By Sebastian Dziallas on July 31, 2010 2:00 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
So Mike McGrath announced repos.fedorapeople.org. Pretty cool, right? I updated the Etherpad packages for F13 and moved them there. Want to try them out? Awesome. Follow this quick guide:

  • become root and switch to the /etc/yum.repos.d directory
  • execute wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/sdz/etherpad/fedora-etherpad.repo
  • call yum install etherpad and install it together with its dependencies
  • switch back to your home directory
  • start the mysql server by running service mysqld start
  • prepopulate the database by executing etherpad-setup-mysql-db.sh
  • and now it's time to start the server: etherpad-run-local.sh
That should get you an Etherpad instance running on port 9000. Let me know how it goes. Also, for some strange reason, the Koji scratch composes don't seem to run through, while they do on my local machines. If you're interested in helping out to get this packaged properly, check out the page for the FAD we're tying to organize around Etherpad (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD) or ping me on IRC. I'm sdziallas there.

A whole bunch of Sugar Activity Updates is coming...

By Sebastian Dziallas on July 31, 2010 1:20 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
...to an F13 installation near you. Soon. We need a little feedback from you, though. Specifically for the following ativities.

Since they haven't been pushed to the testing repository, yet, you can grab the builds from Koji (the links are on each update's page) or wait a few days and then run yum --enablerepo=updates-testing sugar-*. We're particularily interested whether #1900 is fixed for you with the latest Read update and whether the other activities still perform as they should.

Summer of Code: Moar Newz.

By Sebastian Dziallas on July 27, 2010 1:16 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
I've been a little calm in terms of blogging about GSoC lately, since I'm getting ready for my move to the US. There are a couple of things I've been working on lately after pushing the sugar-smolt code upstream, though.

  • One of the major obstacles for the user in terms of creating Sugar on a Stick - and we have received reports about this - is that the instructions are either outdated or confused and the interfaces very wildly between different platforms and distributions. We've started addressing the first by working on a Creation Kit for SoaS v3. This doesn't mean all is shiny now, but we're getting there. We've recommended Fedora's LiveUSB Creator over the past release cycles when possible and would to continue to build on that. Hence, I've been trying to make it easier for users of other distributions to use the LiveUSB Creator. While I haven't had much success, yet, this is something I'd like to keep an eye on.
  • I've been working with Peter Robinson on getting Sugar into EPEL. We've gotten a large chunk of packages built already in the appropriate branch. Watch out for announcements coming your way.
  • Lucian, who's also doing a GSoC at Sugar Labs and working on porting Browse to Webkit (the result being Surf), has fixed one of the major regressions that affected SoaS v3. The Read activity didn't work due to upstream changes in evince's python bindings (#1900). However, thanks to this work, I've been able to take a new activity bundle, package it, and push it as an update to F13. It's currently in testing, so if you do get a minute, please comment on the update.

Sugar Smolt is now in... Smolt!

By Sebastian Dziallas on July 10, 2010 6:00 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
I've been working on a Sugar GUI for Smolt as part of my GSoC. Thanks to Mike McGrath, this code is now part of smolt's next branch in GIT. I'm pretty well on schedule with that, given that next week, midterms are happening. You can either check the code out yourself already or wait for a new release coming out. We're also looking forward to including this code in the next iteration of Sugar on a Stick, where it'll help users to submit their hardware profiles more easily.

Thank you, folks.

By Sebastian Dziallas on July 4, 2010 12:35 PM | 1 Comment | No TrackBacks
I'm going to Olin. It's the place I want to go to. I didn't imagine this to happen, but apparently, sometimes everything in the universe aligns and a lot of magic happens.

A close friend of mine once said, that sometimes, no matter how many more words one strings together, one can't get any closer to the true sentiment. He's right. So thank you, folks, for being there and making this happen. This is totally awesome.
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