Devel Digest, Vol 26, Issue 65

[James Simmons]

Morgan,

I am one of those people developing activities that make use of 
collaboration.  I'm pleased to see that someone has been charged to make 
that easier, especially through better documentation.  My Activities are 
Read Etexts and View Slides.  Both make use of code adapted from the 
Read activity, although only Read Etexts has sharing implemented in a 
released package.  It does seem to work.  View Slides has sharing code 
in git, but not released as that code does NOT work at this time.

One thing I hope you'll address is the question of setting up a sharing 
test environment as simply as possible.  I have been using Xubuntu with 
Sugar RPMs on one machine and Sugar-jhbuild on openSUSE 10.2 on 
another.  Both use the Collabora server, and I have a G1G1 laptop 
pointing to that server as well.  The thing is, I don't know if I have 
Collabora's blessing to use their server for my testing, and even if I 
did, it is frequently out of service.  Ideally I could set up my own 
server.  I do know that just having ejabberd installed from RPMs is not 
enough.  (I tried that and it didn't work).  So what is the simplest way 
for me to have my own sharing environment?

Another point I hope you'll address is the code in the Read activity for 
sharing.  It is full of FIXME comments, yet the Wiki recommends its use 
as sample code.  I'm stuck adapting that code for my own Activities as 
they are variations on the Read activity.

Thanks,

James Simmons

>Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:05:38 +0200
>From: "Morgan Collett" <morgan.collett at gmail.com>
>Subject: Collaborative Activity Development
>To: sugar at lists.laptop.org, devel-list <Devel at lists.laptop.org>
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>(Excuse the cross-post, but I don't know whether activity authors are
>on the sugar list, which I presume is the more appropriate list for
>this topic in future...)
>
>I'm now working for OLPC, on improving activity collaboration. If you
>are developing an activity and have/intend to implement collaboration,
>my mission is to make that easier through documentation, examples,
>improved API and general assistance.
>
>Please take a look at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collaboration_Central
>- a work in progress but it's intended to be a one-stop shop for
>information on implementing and improving collaboration.
>
>This week's Sugar development meeting on IRC
>(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_dev_meeting#Thursday_April_17_2008_-_17.00_.28UTC.29)
>will focus on activity collaboration. If you have questions or
>comments I'd love to discuss them then.
>
>Otherwise, catch me on #sugar, or if you have issues that would
>benefit other activity authors, please send them to the sugar list and
>we can discuss them there.
>
>Regards
>Morgan
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>