Greg Smith's Weekly Report

[Gary C Martin]

On 6 Sep 2008, at 06:12, rihoward1 at gmail.com wrote:

> Greg,
>
> Thanks for fixing http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Joyride and
> make it reference the correct version of
> Develop.  Tested it and software updater now downloads Develop V35.
> Now maybe people can start looking for valid bugs and give the
> developer useful feedback.
> Develop launches nicely in 8.2-759.
>
> I went ahead and updated the reference to Colors! to Colors! V4 and
> software updater successfully downloaded that it.

I notice that the .xo bundle for Colors linked from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities 
  is still going to v3 even though v4 is listed on Colors own wiki  
page. Was just testing on the 759 stream and noticed it didn't pick-up  
the new version of Color (or Develop-35 for that matter) as the  
Control Panel (obviously) doesn't use the Activities/Joyride  
information.

Installed both new versions manually using Browse (note that Colors  
doesn't respond to the stop icon in its activity tool bar, but you can  
use the keyboard shortcut alt-esc to get out).

> The architecture of the wiki activity group pages is interesting to
> say the list.


Yea, I was hoping the whispers of semantic wiki stuff was going to  
help keep all the various wiki references in sync. Perhaps it's  
implementation is still incomplete? Any information on what the  
semantic wiki plan is/was all about? Seems to have been some black ops  
project inside OLPC with no public documentation (that I've stumbled  
over yet). I noticed a few weeks back that my activity page had turned  
into some monster Q&A template page if I now try and edit it...

--Gary