Sugar Beets

We will be doing a testing session tomorrow. Bring the latest Soas (F11) image ready downloaded and flashed on a stick with you.

Time: Wed Apr 1 14.00 – 16.00 (UTC)

Things we are particularly interested in:

Verify the bugs we just fixed in the last days

• spanish translation

• Bundlebuilder list_files: Better error handling #635
• #428 has been reverted

• Use git ls-files instead of git-ls-files, to work with newer Git. d.sl.o #647
• Bundlebuilder: Don’t include whole directory in src tarball (regression introduced by #397)
• Grey out the erase option if an activity bundle cannot be erased #620
• AP: Do not write timestamp when not managed to connect #623
• Correct date in ‘About my Computer’ CP section #639
• Make Jukebox the default activity for ogg-vorbis #423
• Find an available icon for displaying the removable device #627
• CP: Disallow the user from selecting any fallbacks if English (USA) is selected (#slo:561)
• Add full licence to data dir #357
• The logout option is available by default
• Resume from home is duplicating activity instances again #600
• Browse: Fix autocompletion and uploading of files #670
• Browse: Make sugarlabs.org the default page

- Connect to your AP (WEP, WAP, reconnect after restart)
- Collaboration (Jabber server, link local)
- Translations

This is a very important session tomorrow - as we are preparing for our final 0.84 release! So please join and help us find all the bugs left.

Prelude:

We have one 5 days left for our 0.84.2 Release. This is our final update for 0.84. Our list of bugs has diminished already - 5 bugs fixed - 22 left.

Let’s concentrate this last days and make the release rock! Help is more than welcome of course. Patches should be submitted following the review guidelines. We will review now carefully to not introduce regressions. If you want to join - we are hanging out in #sugar!

Open:

#119 Scrollbar off the screen on some sites on my X40 laptop
#427 Doesnt shutdown or restart, when an activity shows `all changes
will be lost` error message
#456 Browse hangs when trying to open file:///home/…
#572 Record won’t launch due to _sha_data attr (among other reasons)
#246 shutdown operation fails after first fail
#308 Control panel resizing issue (for non en_US languages)
#610 Journal Palette does not manage too many characters for a title
correctly
#297 Index finger (Browse link) pointer’s active point is too low
#402 Chat: shows “share or invite” hint even on resume of shared
instance
#453 if the Sugar control panel is open, then Frame icons are
inoperable
#461 Sometimes an activity will not start
#498 Shutdown/Restart does not work after X-server restart
#541 Mime type mess with files downloaded with Browse
#578 Activity Download experience is not smooth enough
#586 Browse cannot upload activity bundles to
activities.sugarlabs.org because of Journal name scrambling.
#626 spurious storage devices in Frame on bootup
#630 Journal full message has issues
#636 icon frame does overlap (favorites view)
#645 make sugarlabs.org the default page
#39 Journal detail-view: Information tags/participants cut off
1024×600
#43 Mark activity as favorite when it’s installed as a deb, rpm, etc
#50 Collaboration - Friend is present in Group view and not in
Neighborhood view

Done:
#635 bundlebuilder.list_files drops first character of file names if
base_dir has trailing slash
#239 AP reconnection fails after logout, ctrl-alt-erase, lid-close,
sleep (joyride 2631, XO)
#307 DBus policy needs checking
#639 Correct date in ‘About my Computer’ CP section
#623 Do not write timestamp when not managed to connect

Packaged:
(This category will be used to indicate which bugs can be verified in
the noted build)

Heteroptera of the day: Japanese beetle

Where: Soas1-200903232259.iso

What:
This release contains the first 0.84 update release - 0.84.1. The detailed changes are described below:

sugar-toolkit:
- Fix palettes scaling when using scaling factor 72 #504
- Use Popen.communicate() to avoid hang (Sascha Silbe) #397
- Change property type to object because int cannot be None #157

sugar:
- Update to latest NM-User config file (same as nm-applet)
- Fix nondeterministic denials for no-interface messages #575
(Thanks to Dan Williams and Colin Walters for their assistance
in spotting this. upstream bug fdo #18961)
- Draw the rounding box inside the icon bounds (benzea) #567
- Add Dismiss option to the palette of finished transfers #484
- Resume-by-default uses open with, not just open #547
- Set Pippy as the default for opening python files #287
- Remove duplicates from the activities sub menu #497
- Remove transfer icon from frame when the local user cancels it #483
- Restore the icon size after a layout change #157
- enable logout option

sugar-artwork:
- the file transfer icons

Who:
Thanks to all the contributors - especially to the upstream people Dan Williams and Colin Walters for their assistance in fixing #575.

Some call it failure testing some stress testing. We want to meet next Wednesday to find the bugs left in Sucrose 0.84 to be able to fix them for 0.84.1 We will use the latest Sugar on a Stick for those efforts. Please watch here for announcements.

When: Wednesday, March 12th 2009 - 14.00 (UTC)
Where: irc freenode - #sugar
Who: YOU

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