[Server-devel] Testing EduBlog

Tarun Pondicherry tarunpondicherry at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 11:52:57 EDT 2008


It seems that that webpage crashes the xo =/... possibly too many images.
The direct link to the new browse is: 
http://wiki.laptop.org/images/4/48/BrowseNew-2.xo

You will need to remove the old BrowseNew first I think.  (Hover over 
from frame and click remove).

Tarun Pondicherry wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
>
> The version downloadable from: 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog_Instructions under the heading "For 
> Those with Build 656" has the new homepage.  Please let me know if it 
> works.
>
> About, the lang settings, when you go to any of the pages it should be 
> spanish (assuming your xo is using the spanish localization).  If that 
> does not work, then I will force the setting to spanish and not try to 
> detect the localization.
>
> About multiple users, I was thinking that in a real school each 
> teachers and students have their own account.  Then, they can do 
> concurrent things without issues.  My concern is that for the test it 
> looks like we are going to use the same user account for everyone 
> which can cause problems.  If we can create separate user accounts for 
> all the teachers and students testing, that would be ideal.
>
> Thanks for taking the time to test this stuff out.
>
> Tarun
>> Hi Tarun!
>> Thanks for the great work you are doing!
>>
>> See comments below.
>>
>> Saludos,
>> Pablo Flores
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Tarun Pondicherry 
>> <tarunpondicherry at gmail.com <mailto:tarunpondicherry at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Pablo,
>>
>>     I tried to address most of these concerns in the updated version.
>>      Please let me know if I got the attempted fixes right.
>>
>>
>> I'll try to take some time this afternoon to test the system.  What I 
>> found with the previous version is that BrowseNew didn't change its 
>> homepage. I talked with Greg that it would be very simplifying for 
>> teachers and children to make BrowseNew go straight to 
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/EduBlog, a page I will get some time to 
>> finish with the instructions to start to work. Would it be possible 
>> to change this?
>>
>>
>>
>>     I'm also thinking about how to configure the language.  Currently,
>>     it detects if the Browser is es or en and bases its setting on
>>     that.  We could also change it to force es not matter what.  Which
>>     do you think is better?
>>
>> For us, both possibilities are good if they work well ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>     Another concern I have is that if testers login at the same time
>>     with the same username, it may break things.  Is this something to
>>     worry about, or will the system be tested by one person at a time?
>>
>> Well, this may be a real problem working in a real school. The normal 
>> workflow is that the teacher proposes something to work in and blog 
>> about it, then children start to work altogether.... what problems 
>> may happen?
>



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