mid-week progress Jan 14th

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at sugarlabs.org
Fri Jan 15 11:40:28 GMT 2010


On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:59,  <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
> Having a pretty good week.
>
> We now have an ubuntu-sugar-remix package at
> https://launchpad.net/~dfarning/+archive/ppa/+packages .
>
> This is cool for two reasons; 1.  End users can install the
> ubuntu-sugar-remix package and get the complete ubuntu-sugar-remix
> experience and 2. Developers build and maintain ubuntu-sugar-remix with the
> same tools and procedures as other ubuntu products.  No more dirty hacks.
>
> Goals by Mondays release.
> 1. Figure out how set the sugar xsession to open by default;  USR is dual
> desktop, sugar and gnome, but it would be good to boot to sugar.

Is USR running gdm? What's the intended experience during startup, the
same as in SoaS?

Regards,

Tomeu

> 2.  Test and move the packages from my ppa to the sugar team PPA and
> document how to install from the sugar team pppa.
> 3.  Create a Sugar-activities package which preseeds a collection of
> packages from ASLO.  This packages will need to flexible and probably
> temporary as Jonas figures out a good compromise for packaging activities
> and their common dependencies upstream.
> 4. Stub out Sugar-ubuntu-remix-default-configuration as a meta package to
> set gnome and system defaults the correct way rather than sed and other ugly
> bash tricks.
>
> Apologies for the terrible communications. We have an ubuntu feature freeze
> deadline coming up in mid-February.  I am in a sprint to get things useful
> enough that a experienced ubuntu developer will be interested in helping us
> herd our stuff into universe....
>
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> On the nerdy side of things, I upgraded my workstation to 8G of memory and a
> quad core processor.  It has cut the time to build an USR ISO down by an
> order of magnitude.
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