GIT and Research trudging all wrapped into one

by ramstush on Thu 06 June 2013 // Posted in legacy // under

Last tuesday, the main achievement of the day was getting a GitHUB tutorial from one of our mentors. It was an extremely cool seminar where I believe everyone learn alot more than they thought was possible. Also, merging a text file from at least 7 people who were asked to change one line is a rather tedious task. I had the unfortunate pleasure of merging the same file at least 5 times....We were also linked to a Git Resource Sheet. This will be mighty handy!

ON TO RESEARCHING THE INTERWEBS!

Yesterday was perhaps the more exhausting day we have had so far. We needed to find out how sugar labs school servers talk to XO laptops so we can begin actually developing our code. Most of the day we spent mining the internet and finding nothing but high level descriptions of "what sugar servers are, what they do, and how they work." It wasn't helpful at all in actually finding the code that makes the talking happen. One of our teammates went into the sugar files that we all have installed on our boxen, and dug through each and every file trying to find something that would be helpful. To no avail, I ended up obtaining the Sugar Labs CEO's email and asked him where we should go from where we were. He simply replied that we should ask in channel certain devs that might have had thier hands in how school servers work.

This brings us to the here and now, the sugar IRC is on the plate to be mined, and we're finally ready to start getting on with our project because we have something to start working on. Correction, we have a "place" to start working from. Best of luck.