G1G1 Pre-installed Activities Request for Help Testing

[Greg Smith]

Hi All,

Thanks a lot for the input on which activities to ship!

Here is the list of activities I will to management as my suggestion on 
what we ship.

Please help test these! See the end of the e-mail for instructions.

The list I recommend is essentially the G1G1 activities (kudos to the 
team who chose the first set!). In addition to those I list a few which 
got repeated votes (except Chess and Sudoku which are a concession to SJ ;-)

Original G1G1 activities:
Browse 	
Read
Write
Paint
Record
TamTam Jam, Mini, on fence: Synthlab,  Edit,
Chat
Pippy
Etoys
Turtle Art
Calculate
Measure
Distance
Memorize
Terminal
Log
Analyze

New ones:
Help
Implode
Speak
Maze
SimCity
Scratch
Xaos
StarChart
Moon
GCompris Chess
GCompris Sudoku

The only significant change from the original G1G1 set is the TamTam. I 
think we should include 2 not 4 so as not to over weight them against 
other activities.

Let me know if anyone has comments on that (Jean can you live with that?).

Not all of these are sure to make it. On the other hand it's very 
unlikely that anything else will make it. So if you have an urgent 
request or a specific concern please speak up now.

Of course, anyone can download additional activities so even if an 
activity is not on this list, it still attracts a lot of users.

We need help testing these with the latest 8.2 image. We plan to make a 
release candidate today and if it passes smoke test we will add the 
activities and content to create a signed release candidate on Monday!

Developers,

Please reply with the final version and URL of each activity which we 
should include in the image. Each one must pass final test and have an 
active and reachable developer to make the final list.

Morgan,

can you make sure we have a contact e-mail and name on each of these? 
Also, let me know if you any of them are orphaned or not well maintained.

All,

Please test them all one more time let us know how it goes.

I want to know if each of these passes the tests described here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.0#Activities

Please create a new test case for any activity that needs one.

To do that, go to this page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Form:Test_case
and entering Tests/Activities/nameofactivity to create a new test case. 
Then choose activity from the drop down and you can just paste in the 
steps test from above for a start.

Then you can add a test result by clicking on the "+" sign next to the 
test case (it takes a little while for them to show up after creation).

You can also e-mail comments or test results back to this list.

Thanks a lot for your help.

Thanks,

Greg S