Ubuntu Sugar tester...

[David Farning]

CCed ubuntu-sugarteam and satellit

Paul,

I have CCed satellit, the Sugar Labs VM expert.  Hopefully, he has
some ideas about how to make this easy to test in your lab.

david

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:20 AM,  <flint at flint.com> wrote:
> Dear David and Jeff,
>
> We may want a repository of Virtual Disk Images (VDIs) at some convenient
> place where there is lots of storage and bandwidth.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
>
> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, David Farning wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:38:24 -0600
>> From: David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
>> To: Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net>
>> Cc: flint at flint.com, Henry Grover <henrywgrover at gmail.com>,
>>    Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>,
>>    Kevin Cole <kjcole at dc.sugarlabs.org>
>> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Sugar tester...
>>
>> If possible, running directly from the image through vBox would best for
>> now.
>>
>> I have contacted the Ubuntu back ports team about back porting the
>> current sugar-0.88 Lucid packages to Karmic.  But, it is not likely to
>> happen within the next two months
>>
>> david
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> It could be indeed, Mr. Flint.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:05 PM,  <flint at flint.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear Jeff,
>>>>
>>>> Happy New Year!
>>>>
>>>> Could this be why the software gods gave us VirtuaBox...
>>>>
>>>> With respect and...
>>>>
>>>> Kindest Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Jeff Elkner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 13:52:08 -0500
>>>>> From: Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net>
>>>>> To: David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
>>>>> Cc: Henry Grover <henrywgrover at gmail.com>,
>>>>>    Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>,
>>>>>    Kevin Cole <kjcole at dc.sugarlabs.org>, Paul Flint <flint at flint.com>
>>>>> Subject: Re: Ubuntu Sugar tester...
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be a big help to us if the packages would also run on karmic,
>>>>> since most of our "Sugar testers" are working on things like
>>>>> documentation for TurtleArt and such, and need to run Sugar on our
>>>>> regular lab machines.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>>>>
>>>>> jeff
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 1:22 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Jeff Elkner <jeff at elkner.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let me introduce you to Henry Grover, student and aspiring system
>>>>>>> administrator.  I've tasked Henry with working on our top project
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>> year: Sugar.  Specifically, he will be able to test things like your
>>>>>>> new Lucid Sugar builds.  We will want both the SoaS version and the
>>>>>>> Sugar as a desktop option on a regular system version.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hey Henry,
>>>>>> Nice to meet you.  System administration is a fascinating field.  One
>>>>>> of the most important skills for sysadmins is the ability to diagnose
>>>>>> and fix problems.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The existing Ubuntu sugar packages were so broken that no one could
>>>>>> agree on how to fix them:(  So, I have thrown them out and started
>>>>>> fresh.  We have fresh packages for Ubuntu 10.4 autosynced from Debain
>>>>>> unstable rolled up into a neat little bundle called Ubuntu Sugar
>>>>>> Remix.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For the next four months I expect that we will have our hands full
>>>>>> with 3 specific tasks:
>>>>>> 1 - Testing and reporting bugs.
>>>>>> 2 - Triaging bugs.
>>>>>> 3 - Fixing bugs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any help you can give in any of these three areas is greatly
>>>>>> appreciated.  My goal is to do a test release of Sugar 0.87 on Ubuntu
>>>>>> 10.04 every week so that we generate some momentum while providing
>>>>>> valuable feedback for upstream developers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> david
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll be talking to Henry about this tomorrow, and hopefully he will
>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>> able to dive right in with it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Happy New Year!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> jeff elkner
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Kindest Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Paul Flint
>>>> (802) 479-2360
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /************************************
>>>> Based upon email reliability concerns,
>>>> please send an acknowledgment in response to this note.
>>>>
>>>> Paul Flint
>>>> Barre Open Systems Institute
>>>> 17 Averill Street
>>>> Barre, VT
>>>> 05641
>>>>
>>>> http://www.bosivt.org
>>>> http://www.flint.com/home
>>>> skype: flintinfotech
>>>> Work: (202) 537-0480
>>>>
>>>> Consilium                                       _
>>>> gratuitum        .~.     ASCII ribbon campaign ( )
>>>> valet            /V\      against HTML e-mail   X
>>>> quanti          /( )\     www.asciiribbon.org  / \
>>>> numerantur      ^^-^^
>>>
>>
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
>
>
> Paul Flint
> (802) 479-2360
>
>
> /************************************
> Based upon email reliability concerns,
> please send an acknowledgment in response to this note.
>
> Paul Flint
> Barre Open Systems Institute
> 17 Averill Street
> Barre, VT
> 05641
>
> http://www.bosivt.org
> http://www.flint.com/home
> skype: flintinfotech
> Work: (202) 537-0480
>
> Consilium                                       _
> gratuitum        .~.     ASCII ribbon campaign ( )
> valet            /V\      against HTML e-mail   X
> quanti          /( )\     www.asciiribbon.org  / \
> numerantur      ^^-^^