[OLPC library] Help the Help activity!

Thu Sep 18 18:28:02 EDT 2008

The control panel will only include the Help Activity when you add the URL
of the G1G1 activity pack.  Something that will be done by default in the
g1g1 release, but not until we finalize what build will be released as 8.2
To do this manually add the following URL:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1

That will allow you to auto-update Help activity and others.

Also, the link you just posted to the Help-5 activity works fine for me.

--Seth

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Anne Gentle <annegentle at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Brian -
> Thanks for getting this out there!
>
> Installing now, although neither of the lazy methods are working, and
> neither does sudo yum install git.
>
> 1 Control Panel, Activity updater: did not list Help Activity. I'm running
> build 757
>
> 2 Terminal Activity: sudo yum install git - cannot retrieve repository
> metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: olpc_development.
>
> 3 Browse Activity: When I went to
> http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/bundles/Help-5.xo<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ecscott/bundles/Help-5.xo>nothing happens. Browse just sits there. I logged
>
> I'll update my OS (I'm on 8.2.757, will go to 760) and try these three
> methods again, unless you have other ideas for me.
>
> Thanks,
> Anne
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM, <library-request at lists.laptop.org>wrote:
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>> Today's Topics:
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>>   1.  Help the Help activity! (Brian Jordan)
>>   2. Re:  Help the Help activity! (Brian Jordan)
>>   3.  en_GB translations (Christopher Sawtell)
>>   4. Re:  en_GB translations (adam hyde)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:33:15 -0400
>> From: "Brian Jordan" <brian at laptop.org>
>> Subject: [OLPC library] Help the Help activity!
>> To: library <library at lists.laptop.org>, "OLPC Devel"
>>        <devel at lists.laptop.org>,       support at laptop.org
>> Message-ID:
>>        <2bcfd3d60809161333o37ec65dcp3ef3663e903f7c95 at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
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>> The Help activity is about to be used on a bunch of laptops (via the
>> G1G1 activity page/activity updater)!
>>
>> The activity itself was originally written by marcopg, and its content
>> is being (manually) generated from the FlossManuals remix system:
>> http://en.flossmanuals.net/remix . It is a combination of chapters
>> from the Sugar and XO manuals.
>>
>> Help test and improve Help! Write and improve Sugar/XO content at
>> flossmanuals, find and submit bugs for component help-activity, make a
>> new good-looking cascading stylesheet for the bundle!
>>
>> To try it out:
>> (1) get Help from git:
>> sudo yum install git
>> git-clone git://dev.laptop.org/activities/help
>> cd help
>> ./setup.py dev
>>
>> (2) get the Help xo bundle:
>> wget http://dev.laptop.org/~bjordan/help-3.xo
>> sugar-install-bundle<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ebjordan/help-3.xosugar-install-bundle>help-3.xo
>>
>> Open bugs (blocking 8.2?):
>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8513 - doesn't look nice with screen
>> rotation
>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8514 - missing one section
>> other tickets:
>> http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=help-activity
>>
>> IF YOU KNOW CSS: Help make the Help Activity work on screen rotation:
>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8513
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~bjordan/manual/style.css<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ebjordan/manual/style.css>
>> Firebug is very helpful:
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
>>
>> IF YOU KNOW HOW TO WRITE: Help make the Help Activity's "Powering of
>> your Laptop" section:
>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8514
>> edit this: http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/XO/AdvancedPower
>>
>> IF YOU CAN FLOSSMANUALS REMIX and upload the results: Help create new
>> content remixes of the Help Activity:
>> instructions are listed in the description of:
>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8514
>> export as a .tar.gz, that is exactly what is in the Help.activity/help/
>> folder
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:20:13 -0400
>> From: "Brian Jordan" <brian at laptop.org>
>> Subject: Re: [OLPC library] Help the Help activity!
>> To: "C. Scott Ananian" <cscott at laptop.org>
>> Cc: library <library at lists.laptop.org>, Gary C Martin
>>        <gary at garycmartin.com>, support at laptop.org, Devel List
>>        <devel at laptop.org>
>> Message-ID:
>>        <2bcfd3d60809161720y784e8916k4ac38a75bb0af387 at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> Thanks Scott, and apologies to all -- I did a crap job bundling help-3
>> via zip (I was just told to get an activity bundle out quickly so
>> people can hack on/fix it). Using setup.py is much, much better -- and
>> look, it makes a MANIFEST :-D
>>
>> And for the lazy, you can get help-5:
>>
>> (1) through the activity updater
>> (2) from http://dev.laptop.org/~cscott/bundles/Help-5.xo<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Ecscott/bundles/Help-5.xo>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Brian
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:29 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org>
>> wrote:
>> > I just uploaded a slightly tweaked Help-5.xo which has some minor
>> > packaging-related issues fixed.  That seems to upgrade fine (for me at
>> > least).
>> >
>> > There are some licensing issues with Help-5 -- it doesn't include the
>> > licensing section from the original manual, and claims GPLv2 (only)
>> > when apparently GPLv2+ or CC-<something> is more accurate.  The
>> > 'LICENSE' file in the activity bundle is not actually sufficient as a
>> > statement of license.
>> >  --scott
>> >
>> > --
>> >  ( http://cscott.net/ )
>> >
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:12:10 +1200
>> From: "Christopher Sawtell" <csawtell at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [OLPC library] en_GB translations
>> To: library at lists.laptop.org
>> Message-ID:
>>        <b8d16a880809162112o7da69bcel5f29810e930d8422 at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>
>> I had a brief natter in the irc channel earlier today & tentatively
>> suggested that a translation to en_GB could
>> well be a good idea. Others in the channel agreed, and suggested that
>> I mention the notion here.
>>
>> In order to do the work I need a bit of administrative help.
>>
>> How does one get a new language ( or language patois ) set up?
>>
>> There is mention of the 'git' source code control system. Do I need to
>> install that locally?
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely etc.
>> Christopher Sawtell
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:47:20 +0200
>> From: adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>
>> Subject: Re: [OLPC library] en_GB translations
>> To: Christopher Sawtell <csawtell at gmail.com>
>> Cc: library at lists.laptop.org
>> Message-ID: <1221641240.10578.133.camel at esetera>
>> Content-Type: text/plain
>>
>> hey
>>
>> i can set up translations. however do you think a en_GB is really
>> necessary? Personally (as a en_GB colonialist) I don't care if something
>> is written in en_GB or en_US (or en_NZ etc), its all info and I can deal
>> with a 'z' here n there.
>>
>> adam
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 16:12 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
>> > I had a brief natter in the irc channel earlier today & tentatively
>> > suggested that a translation to en_GB could
>> > well be a good idea. Others in the channel agreed, and suggested that
>> > I mention the notion here.
>> >
>> > In order to do the work I need a bit of administrative help.
>> >
>> > How does one get a new language ( or language patois ) set up?
>> >
>> > There is mention of the 'git' source code control system. Do I need to
>> > install that locally?
>> >
>> --
>> Adam Hyde
>> Founder FLOSS Manuals
>> http://www.flossmanuals.net
>>
>>
>>
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