Harmonic Distribution v0.3 development

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Goal

Fulltime development of Harmonic Distribution v0.3 release

Responsibility

Aleksey Lim

Timeline

2012, April-May

Funds needed

2012, April: $300
2012, May: $500

Project description

Harmonic Distribution initiative is intended to be a technical basis for systematic approach to support Sugar Learning Platform based deployments. It is being designed and developed to accomplish the following technical tasks:

• be a community basis project for [any number or] final product
• covering full life cycle of Sugar based deployment, e.g., client and server software, content distribution, etc.
• be as less maintainable as possible
• support offline deployments

Resources:

• ​Home page

Funding request reason

The reason for asking for funding is to complete v0.3 release. The roadmap is:

• ​Roadmap
• ​v0.2 Todo
• ​v0.3 Todo

This request doesn't include Sugar Network client development (which is a part of Harmonic Distribution) because it is being developed within the Hexokinase project. For the rest, v0.3 should be the first Harmonic Distribution release that is being intended to start testing in the field by people who will use final product. The functionality list was chosen to be useful in Puno pilot.

How to track the progress

• Weekly (on Monday) implementation reports on ​Sugar Network group
• Commits to the following Git sources projects:
  • ​http://git.sugarlabs.org/server
  • ​http://git.sugarlabs.org/desktop
  • ​http://git.sugarlabs.org/network
  • ​http://git.sugarlabs.org/sweets

How to revise the work

After being released, v0.3 should provide:

• XO image for students to start behaving right after flashing
• XO image for teachers, to behave as a server to serve students, right after flashing
• Basic workflow for people who will support Puno pilot:
  • populating and revising Sugar Network content (Sugar Activities and .xol libraries)
  • provide technical support for offline schools using Sugar Network resources like Questions
• Sneakernet synchronization (chaski) between teachers servers and the master one that is being located in the Internet

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Requested funds for April have been transferred. Please confirm.

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Confirmed.

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The current progress:

• Harmonic Distribution v0.2 ​release notes.

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Harmonic Distribution v0.25 ​release notes.

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Confirmed second transfer.

The v0.3 is delayed and being planed to the first part of June.