Release Tarballs of bounce (3dpong)

[RafaelOrtiz]

from ​http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8967

We need the tarballs and .xo on

​http://download.sugarlabs.org/

Now bounce is on gitorious.

​http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/bounce

[wadeb]

I'm still waiting for a shell account.

BTW, it would be *really* cool if Gitorious could automatically build and post tarballs and .xo's to download.sugarlabs.org when a tag containing 'Release' is pushed. This could probably be done in the post-commit hook. Should I open another ticket for this?

[wadeb]

(The rationale for the post commit hook btw, is so that we don't need shell accounts for *every* activity author)

[RafaelOrtiz]

hi wadeb..

my opinion is that your request should be a bug..:).(and is needed also obviously)

[bernie]

why do the .xo bundles need to bo in download.sugarlabs.org?

On wiki.laptop.org, they were just being attached to the Activities page.

[wadeb]

Posting activity bundles to the wiki is pretty much deprecated. It's slow and inconvenient for activity authors, and is hard to keep organized. Imagine posting new sugar tarballs to the wiki for each release you do, it would take days to upload and link everything :)

Besides, we're not making per-activity user facing wiki pages this time around, so there is no point to posting bundles to the wiki. The addons.sugarlabs.org site is going to take care of the user facing page, and downloads.sugarlabs.org is the natural place for the bundles.

I'd like to see some automated organization to the bundle storage as well, for example:

​http://downloads.sugarlabs.org/activities/maze/

Maze-1.xo
Maze-2.xo
...

The Git post-commit hook could keep this directory up to date.

[bernie]

Ok, then we'll use the download directory for now.

In the future, addons.sugarlabs.org might become the place of choice.

[wadeb]

I reopened the post-commit issue as #221.

[marcopg]

Do you want a component for bounce? Who should own it?

[wadeb]

Yeah, I'll own it.

Ultimately we want a component for every activity I think, but it sounds like a lot of admin overhead.

[erikos]

Mind that Bounce is not in Fructose - so we do not need a tarball of it. And it should be available on addons then in the future.

Can this ticket be updated - it is marked as a blocker for sugar.

[tomeu]

Are tarballs still needed?

[wadeb]

Bounce is not part of Fructose, so I'm closing this ticket.