#2064 BLOC Retriag: All Activities should live in /home/olpc/Activities

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#2064: All Activities should live in /home/olpc/Activities
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  Reporter:  cscott   |       Owner:  dgilmore         
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  reopened         
  Priority:  blocker  |   Milestone:  Retriage, Please!
 Component:  distro   |     Version:                   
Resolution:           |    Keywords:                   
  Verified:  0        |    Blocking:                   
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Comment(by sj):

 Replying to [comment:11 bert]:
 > Nope. The [http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/olpc3/ olpc3]
 build is a regression. It has activities in the base build again. Also,
 joyride still includes activities.
 >
 > It is fixed for update.1 though, so I'll request retriaging.  Is anybody
 doing this these days?

 I agree with Scott's original idea of having fallback activities in
 /usr/share..  This suggests that 'core' activities can be defined as those
 which we consider worth using space in all builds for.  We can support
 "removing" them by adding a stub activity with the same name in
 /home/olpc/Activities that is functionless and invisible, and "updating"
 them by installing a new version into /home/olpc/Activities, at a space
 hit of at most twice the disk footprint of the original.

 These 'core' activities should be ones which
   - comply well with our criteria for great activities (see #6598 and the
 wiki page)
   - specifically demonstrate collaboration and what makes Sugar special
   - help bootstrap the transparency and hackability of the system (so if
 'view source' or 'publish' or 'journal' are implemented as  Activities
 [which I'm not sure they should be, simply for clarity of jargon], they
 rank highly here)
   - are small enough for the advantages to outweigh the extra disk used
 (extra weight on this criterion; at most double the normal weight :)

 Bert and marco, would you disagree with this notion of a core activityset?
 SJ

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