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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[LM <lm...@gm...>]

Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:
> A couple of years ago, Nalin added accessibility for blind people to
> tuxmath and tuxtype, I think it is still on the accessibility branch
> not merged into master :/

Looked like it had been merged in with the latest version.  I have
those changes in what I'm working on but I've made a few modifications
to them.

David Bruce wrote:
>Hi all - I would be *very* happy to know that tuxmath and tuxtype will be
>maintained again.

I did look at the tuxtype code.  Personally, I'd like to see it using
t4k_common in a way that's more parallel to what tuxmath is doing.
One issue I noticed was that CheckFile in tuxtype had more
functionality than T4K_CheckFile in t4k_common.  So, some
modifications to t4k_common to accommodate tuxtype might be necessary.
Tuxtype uses CheckFile to check for valid directories as well as valid
filenames while T4K_CheckFile doesn't do any directory checking and
doesn't return a code to indicate when the argument is a directory.

Another issue is where to store related files such as graphics, audio
files, etc.  t4k_common, tuxmath and tuxtype all have these types of
files.  I made some modifications in my code to store files under
$PREFIX/share in a t4k_common directory.  That works well to avoid
duplication of tuxmath and t4k_common files and code.  However,
tuxtype has different files, some with the same name and path as
tuxmath, so trying to combine those files as is under t4k_common would
be an issue.  One could have the code search for tuxmath files under a
tuxmath subdirectory and tuxtype files under a tuxtype subdirectory,
but then there will still be some files that are common to both and in
t4k_common.  It would be nice not to have to complicate the directory
logic to look in that many places just to find the needed files.

Not sure if I'm looking at the latest versions.  Was having issues
getting tarballs from github.  I believe I downloaded tuxmath at
7ec075a879914d547183f0ed9520b0837d3e7d1a (
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/tux4kids/tuxmath.git/commit/ ) and
tuxtype at b89cde890f5cf6cd9e93aa1a3bf55ed413beb2f9 (
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/tux4kids/tuxtype.git/commit/ ).  I do
have several other versions on my system as well, but I'm currently
using those two as my starting points.

Sincerely,
Laura

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[LM <lm...@gm...>]

On Mon, Apr 11, Holder wrote:
>
>>Laura wrote:
>>  I have plans to get Tuxmath building with SDL2 as well, but
>> haven't had time to work on them lately.
>
> nice work! do you have a git repo somewhere?

Will upload the code to the Internet and post the link as soon as I
get SDL2 support integrated into Tuxmath (not just t4k_common).  I've
been rather busy at work and it's been encroaching on how much free
time I can spend on Open Source projects outside of work lately.

Sincerely,
Laura

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Bastien G. <bz...@gn...>]

Hi David,

thanks *very much* for what you did so far!  It helped many kids
and teacher around the world.  And I perfectly understand how time
can be eaten up by other things.

I hope Laura can reply and take over maintainance while sharing
her fixes, and I'd be glad to help maintain the website once my
write access is set up.

Thanks!

-- 
 Bastien

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[David B. <dav...@gm...>]

Hi all - I would be *very* happy to know that tuxmath and tuxtype will be
maintained again. I worked on them for quite some time, but I got out of
the loop as my professional and personal time got taken up by other things.

Best wishes - David

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:43 AM, Bastien Guerry <bz...@gn...> wrote:

> Hi Holger,
>
> Holger Levsen <ho...@la...> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:09:14AM +0200, Bastien Guerry wrote:
> >> > you need (to create) an alioth account and then (use its web ui to)
> apply to
> >> > become a member of the tux4kids group.
> >> Done.
> >
> > same here (though it seems someone else was faster, thanks!
>
> On alioth, the "source" page for tux4kids suggests that I can clone
> these two repositories:
>
> git clone https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/tux4kids/tux4kids.git
> git clone git+ssh://
> bzg...@sc...//git/tux4kids/tux4kids.git
>
> both it doesn't work for me.
>
> The first one seems empty.
>
> The second one throws this error:
>
>   Permission denied (publickey).
>   fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
>
> I was expecting this to work:
>
> git clone git+ssh://bzg...@gi.../git/tux4kids/tux4kids-web.git
>
> as suggested on https://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/git.php
>
> But it throws the same error, as if my ssh access was not correct or
> as if my permissions were not set for the repos.
>
> My public key is stored correctly on alioth and ~/.ssh/config (0600)
> looks like this:
>
> Host svn.debian.org git.debian.org bzr.debian.org hg.debian.org
> darcs.debian.org arch.debian.org alioth.debian.org
>     User bzg-guest
>
> Is there anything else I can check on my side?  Can it be because my
> public key uses DSA instead of RSA?
>
> Thanks for any hint!
>
> --
>  Bastien
>
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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Bastien G. <bz...@gn...>]

Hi Holger,

Holger Levsen <ho...@la...> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:09:14AM +0200, Bastien Guerry wrote:
>> > you need (to create) an alioth account and then (use its web ui to) apply to
>> > become a member of the tux4kids group.
>> Done.
>
> same here (though it seems someone else was faster, thanks!

On alioth, the "source" page for tux4kids suggests that I can clone
these two repositories:

git clone https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/tux4kids/tux4kids.git
git clone git+ssh://bzg...@sc...//git/tux4kids/tux4kids.git

both it doesn't work for me.

The first one seems empty.

The second one throws this error:

  Permission denied (publickey).
  fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

I was expecting this to work:

git clone git+ssh://bzg...@gi.../git/tux4kids/tux4kids-web.git

as suggested on https://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/git.php

But it throws the same error, as if my ssh access was not correct or
as if my permissions were not set for the repos.

My public key is stored correctly on alioth and ~/.ssh/config (0600)
looks like this:

Host svn.debian.org git.debian.org bzr.debian.org hg.debian.org darcs.debian.org arch.debian.org alioth.debian.org
    User bzg-guest

Is there anything else I can check on my side?  Can it be because my
public key uses DSA instead of RSA?

Thanks for any hint!

-- 
 Bastien

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Pere P. i C. <per...@gm...>]

El dl 11 de 04 de 2016 a les 07:36 -0400, en/na LM va escriure:
>  On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 06:06:32PM +0200,  Bastien wrote:
> > 
> > I'm worried that tuxmath seems largely unmaintained right now.
> > Am I correct?
> It did seem hard to connect with anyone in charge of maintenance in
> order to discuss patches or enhancements.
> 
> At this point I have a fork of Tuxmath.  I started with whatever I
> could download from the alioth site and made several
> modifications.  I
> also found it really hard to get the latest tarballs from the alioth
> archive.  It wants users to sign in.  Some of the files I ended up
> taking down one at a time while viewing them.  I've tested my code on
> Windows and Linux and it seems to run fine on both systems.  I've
> cleaned up some code no longer used and fixed some memory issues.
> I've also fixed sdl_ttf support which didn't look like it had been
> used or tested in a long time.  Guess most users are working with
> cairo instead of sdl_ttf.  I added the option to remove the
> dependency
> on GTK+ libraries like librsvg.  I can now use nanosvg instead for
> basic svg support.  I have t4k_common building with SDL2 (or SDL
> 1.2.x).  I have plans to get Tuxmath building with SDL2 as well, but
> haven't had time to work on them lately.
> 
> It would be nice to combine some of what I've done back with the
> original project, but wasn't able to figure out who to contact to
> even
> suggest it.

To David? to this list? If David looks too busy to reply, I think
Holger will be happy to add you as committer

A couple of years ago, Nalin added accessibility for blind people to
tuxmath and tuxtype, I think it is still on the accessibility branch
not merged into master :/


Best
Pere
> 
> Sincerely,
> Laura
> http://www.distasis.com/cpp
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Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Holger L. <ho...@la...>]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 07:36:21AM -0400, LM wrote:
> At this point I have a fork of Tuxmath.  I started with whatever I
> could download from the alioth site and made several modifications.  I
> also found it really hard to get the latest tarballs from the alioth
> archive.  It wants users to sign in.  Some of the files I ended up
> taking down one at a time while viewing them.  I've tested my code on
> Windows and Linux and it seems to run fine on both systems.  I've
> cleaned up some code no longer used and fixed some memory issues.
> I've also fixed sdl_ttf support which didn't look like it had been
> used or tested in a long time.  Guess most users are working with
> cairo instead of sdl_ttf.  I added the option to remove the dependency
> on GTK+ libraries like librsvg.  I can now use nanosvg instead for
> basic svg support.  I have t4k_common building with SDL2 (or SDL
> 1.2.x).  I have plans to get Tuxmath building with SDL2 as well, but
> haven't had time to work on them lately.

nice work! do you have a git repo somewhere? 


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Bastien G. <bz...@gn...>]

Hi Laura,

thanks for your email -- if you are the most active person on
Tux4Kids right now, why not become the new maintainer?

That would be great, especially since you apparently fixed some
important bugs.

The maintainance does not need to be a burden, and you can form
a team around you.

I for one volunteer for maintaining the website for the next six
months, by just fixing problems (not sure I can work on a revamp.)

What do you think?

-- 
 Bastien

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[LM <lm...@gm...>]

 On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 06:06:32PM +0200,  Bastien wrote:
> I'm worried that tuxmath seems largely unmaintained right now.
> Am I correct?

It did seem hard to connect with anyone in charge of maintenance in
order to discuss patches or enhancements.

At this point I have a fork of Tuxmath.  I started with whatever I
could download from the alioth site and made several modifications.  I
also found it really hard to get the latest tarballs from the alioth
archive.  It wants users to sign in.  Some of the files I ended up
taking down one at a time while viewing them.  I've tested my code on
Windows and Linux and it seems to run fine on both systems.  I've
cleaned up some code no longer used and fixed some memory issues.
I've also fixed sdl_ttf support which didn't look like it had been
used or tested in a long time.  Guess most users are working with
cairo instead of sdl_ttf.  I added the option to remove the dependency
on GTK+ libraries like librsvg.  I can now use nanosvg instead for
basic svg support.  I have t4k_common building with SDL2 (or SDL
1.2.x).  I have plans to get Tuxmath building with SDL2 as well, but
haven't had time to work on them lately.

It would be nice to combine some of what I've done back with the
original project, but wasn't able to figure out who to contact to even
suggest it.

Sincerely,
Laura
http://www.distasis.com/cpp

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Holger L. <ho...@la...>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:09:14AM +0200, Bastien Guerry wrote:
> > you need (to create) an alioth account and then (use its web ui to) apply to
> > become a member of the tux4kids group.
> Done.

same here (though it seems someone else was faster, thanks!

> > then, for key handling read https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH
> Read :)  I added my key, so right now I guess I just need to wait for
> being a member of the project.

yup. just pushing to the website git repo should be enough to update it,
iirc. start with small fixes :)


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Bastien G. <bz...@gn...>]

Hi Holger,

Holger Levsen <ho...@la...> writes:

> you need (to create) an alioth account and then (use its web ui to) apply to
> become a member of the tux4kids group.

Done.

> then, for key handling read https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH

Read :)  I added my key, so right now I guess I just need to wait for
being a member of the project.

Thanks!

-- 
 Bastien

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Holger L. <ho...@la...>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:36:27AM +0200, Bastien Guerry wrote:
> Sure -- here is my public key, I guess you need it somehow for someone
> to give me direct access.

no :)

you need (to create) an alioth account and then (use its web ui to) apply to
become a member of the tux4kids group. then, for key handling read
https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/SSH


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Bastien G. <bz...@gn...>]

Hi Holger,

Holger Levsen <ho...@la...> writes:

> I'd prefer you getting direct access. Revoke and revert is easy 8-)
> (should that ever be needed.)

Sure -- here is my public key, I guess you need it somehow for someone
to give me direct access.

Thanks!

-- 
 Bastien

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Holger L. <ho...@la...>]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 09:10:11AM +0200, Bastien Guerry wrote:
> Maybe by contributing to this repository?
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/tux4kids/tux4kids-web.git
> 
> I'm fine sending patches or committing directly.

I'd prefer you getting direct access. Revoke and revert is easy 8-)
(should that ever be needed.)


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Bastien G. <bz...@gn...>]

Hi Holger,

Holger Levsen <ho...@la...> writes:

> it would probably be the best to give you access to do so. Sadly I'm not
> sure how/who to do that…

Maybe by contributing to this repository?
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/tux4kids/tux4kids-web.git

I'm fine sending patches or committing directly.

Let me know,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Holger L. <ho...@la...>]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 08:11:09AM +0200, Bastien Guerry wrote:
> It may help to have a short annoncement on the website, or just a URL
> I can refer people to quickly -- could you or someone else do that?

it would probably be the best to give you access to do so. Sadly I'm not
sure how/who to do that…

(if it's still on altioh I can quite probably add to the tux4kids group
there, yet I'm not sure if thats the case…)


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Bastien G. <bz...@gn...>]

Hi Brendan,

> Yes, TuxMath needs a hero! (And TuxType, by association, I suspect.)

Thanks for confirming!

> I highly doubt anyone will be "offended" by help with
> maintenance. Life's too short to get territorial about FOSS :)

Seconded :)

I sent a few emails on mailing lists I know (Sugar, an floss education
list in France, and some other targets). I hope this will trigger some
interest.

It may help to have a short annoncement on the website, or just a URL
I can refer people to quickly -- could you or someone else do that?

Thanks!

-- 
 Bastien

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Brendan L <che...@gm...>]

Hi Bastien,

Yes, TuxMath needs a hero! (And TuxType, by association, I suspect.)

I highly doubt anyone will be "offended" by help with maintenance. 
Life's too short to get territorial about FOSS :)

-B

On 04/09/2016 12:51 AM, Bastien Guerry wrote:
> Hi Holger,
>
> Holger Levsen <ho...@la...> writes:
>
>> Not sure. What's certainly missing is / are someone(s) who take the lead
>> in maintaining it. There are often patches and bug reports coming in…
>>
>> You are talking about upstream maintenance, right?
> Yes.  I'm talking about having someone (or a team) fixing the current
> bugs in the code and answering requests on the mailing list.
>
>> Are you willing and able to help?
> I cannot help with the code, but I can help with looking for someone.
> I'm part of the Sugar community, which uses Tuxmath quite a lot, and
> I can ask there (and elsewhere): I wanted to make sure nobody would
> be offended if I look for a new maintainer.
>
>>> I'm copying holger as the current debian package maintainer, in
>>> case he may have more information.
>> Even though I'm not super active on the package (and tuxtype) I'd say
>> that it's maintained well in Debian…
> Yes!  Thanks for this and for your answer.
>

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Bastien G. <bz...@gn...>]

Hi Holger,

Holger Levsen <ho...@la...> writes:

> Not sure. What's certainly missing is / are someone(s) who take the lead
> in maintaining it. There are often patches and bug reports coming in… 
>
> You are talking about upstream maintenance, right?

Yes.  I'm talking about having someone (or a team) fixing the current
bugs in the code and answering requests on the mailing list.

> Are you willing and able to help?

I cannot help with the code, but I can help with looking for someone.
I'm part of the Sugar community, which uses Tuxmath quite a lot, and
I can ask there (and elsewhere): I wanted to make sure nobody would
be offended if I look for a new maintainer.

>> I'm copying holger as the current debian package maintainer, in
>> case he may have more information.
>
> Even though I'm not super active on the package (and tuxtype) I'd say
> that it's maintained well in Debian…

Yes!  Thanks for this and for your answer.

-- 
 Bastien

Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[Holger L. <ho...@la...>]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 06:06:32PM +0200, bz...@gn... wrote:
> I'm worried that tuxmath seems largely unmaintained right now.
> Am I correct?

Not sure. What's certainly missing is / are someone(s) who take the lead
in maintaining it. There are often patches and bug reports coming in… 

You are talking about upstream maintenance, right? Are you willing and
able to help?

> I'm copying holger as the current debian package maintainer, in
> case he may have more information.

Even though I'm not super active on the package (and tuxtype) I'd say
that it's maintained well in Debian…


-- 
cheers,
	Holger

[Tuxmath-devel] Tuxmath maintainance?

[<bz...@gn...>]

Hi Tuxmath developers,

thanks for all the work done so far on tuxmath, a real hit among
children I know!

I just reported an issue here:

https://github.com/tux4kids/tuxmath/issues/11

I'm worried that tuxmath seems largely unmaintained right now.

Am I correct?

How can we help to find someone to maintain it?

I'm copying holger as the current debian package maintainer, in
case he may have more information.

Thanks a lot in advance!

-- 
 Bastien

[Tuxmath-devel] Regarding my GSOC 2016 proposal feed back.

[Kaja V. <var...@gm...>]

hello,
Here, I am attaching my tentative drafted proposal for Tux mind math
project. So, corresponding mentor please give your valuable comments on my
proposal.

thanks,
varun



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[Tuxmath-devel] Tux Mind Math

[akshay a. <aks...@st...>]

Hello,

My name is Akshay Agarwal and I'm a 3rd year Computer Science student.

I would like to work on the idea of Tux Mind Math and Tux Internet as I
have conveyed earlier.

This is my draft proposal
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxAs33Lm1mJwWTlfODlUd0xFdm8> and it
would be very nice to get more inputs and feedback on this.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxAs33Lm1mJwWTlfODlUd0xFdm8

I have also included screenshots of the UI and gameplay in the proposal.

Thanking You,
Akshay Agarwal

[Tuxmath-devel] Application for gsoc 2016

[Veerendra M. <man...@gm...>]

Hi all,

This is *Veerendra Mandava* and i am a student of 2nd year at *iiit Hyderabad (
iiit-H )* in the branch of computer science.

I had gone through the list of accepted projects under tux4kids and i would
i like to contribute to *tux mind math.*

 I had subscribed to the mailing list and my irc nick is veerendra


I am good at c, cpp ,python and u can see my work at
*https://github.com/veeruravi
<https://github.com/veeruravi> *.
This is the first time i am working with tux4kids and it is the first i am
doing gsoc .

I would like to know from where to start contributing to the project, so
that i can start as soon as possible.

Sincerely,
Veerendra Mandava

[Tuxmath-devel] Fwd: Queries regarding GSoC16 for TuxMath

[Ganesh P. <sir...@gm...>]

Hi

Good evening to you. I am Ganesh Prasad and I am a student of 8th semester,
Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology,
Rourkela (NIT-Rkl).

While looking for projects on the GSoC15 page, I came upon the TuxMath
project and visited the IdeaList page. I found that the skills required for
the TuxMath project match with my skill set, I have programmed small games
like Tic-Tac-Toe and Othello (Both with AI) using SDL1.2 in C/C++, I have
also done small prototypical games with pygame in my spare time, I am
familiar with standard build process using build-essentials and an
intermediate level user of git. And I have decent level skills with Gimp
and Inkscape too.  And on the downside, I am not an user of Cmake and I am
not fully familiar with existing codebase of tuxmath. And I have never
written any config and automake scripts.

So, I was wondering, if you could give me some idea about how and where to
start contributing to the project, so that I can figure out if I should go
for it during the next GSoC ?

Sincerely
Ganesh

PS. I have cloned the repository and built and installed the binaries, and
subscribed to the mailing list too.