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jsjgruberWe'll be starting our test of the proposed Lernid version in just a couple of minutes.16:56
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jsjgruberThank you for joining us to day for a test of the proposed new version of17:01
jsjgruberLernid.17:01
jsjgruberUnless you have already installed the lernid-proposed ppa we'll need to do that first.17:01
jsjgruberHere are the commands:17:02
jsjgrubersudo add-apt-repository ppa:jsjgruber/lernid-proposed17:02
jsjgrubersudo apt-get update17:02
jsjgrubersudo apt-get --reinstall install lernid17:02
jsjgruberdpkg -s lernid17:02
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jsjgruberAre folks doing okay? YOu can respond in #ubuntu-classroom-chat.17:07
JoseeAntonioRthe session isn't moderated17:08
jsjgruberWe will be testing a proposed version of Lernid with lot's of bug fixes and17:08
jsjgrubera few new features. Thanks to coalwater (Mohammed AbuShady) for several17:08
jsjgruberof the bug fixes.17:08
jsjgruberExcellent, but lernid won't allow you to type to the classroom. So if you are running another irc client too, you can type here, otherwise you can type in the chatroom.17:09
jsjgruberBug fixes, and often new features, start with people17:09
jsjgruberfiling bug reports. Please, please let us know, in particular, if you17:09
jsjgruberhave any problems with Lernid. We need to correct any show-stoppers17:09
jsjgruberbefore Ubuntu learning sessions happen, and we like to fix as many of the17:09
jsjgruberminor bugs as we can.17:09
jsjgruberYou should see that you are running a version of 0.8.4 (the rest of the17:09
jsjgruberversion number is something that is added by the launchpad build recipe17:09
jsjgruberand can be ignored. It won't be there when we actually make our release17:09
jsjgruberto the lernid upstream ppa.17:09
jsjgruberNor will it be there when lernid is release to Ubuntu.17:10
jsjgruberWho is joining us for lernid testing? Please speak up here are in #ubuntu-classroom-chat.17:10
jsjgruberAgain, to install the version of Lernid open a terminal with ctl-Alt-T and then enter the following:17:15
jsjgrubersudo add-apt-repository ppa:jsjgruber/lernid-proposed17:15
jsjgrubersudo apt-get update17:15
jsjgrubersudo apt-get --reinstall install lernid17:15
jsjgruberdpkg -s lernid17:15
jsjgruberJoseeAntonioR,  do you have the new version of Lernid running?17:17
JoseeAntonioRthat's right17:17
jsjgruberWould you look at the current session in the schedule to see the Instructor list (should be just me).17:18
JoseeAntonioRcorrect17:20
jsjgruberJust a minute please.17:20
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jsjgruberOk, NigelB has been kind enough to make a change to the calendar for us. In a few minutes Lernid should see the change. You can see the classbot just noticed the change, too.17:23
jsjgruberWithin a few minutes you should see the change in Lernid.17:25
jsjgruberA few minutes means maybe ten minutes.17:25
jsjgruberletozaf__ , were you able to install the new lernid version?17:26
letozaf___yes17:26
jsjgruberDid it start for you ok?17:27
jsjgruberPlease go to Help in the menu, and then about. It should list the version there17:28
jsjgruberas 0.8.4.7.17:28
jsjgruberDoes everyone see that as the version?17:28
letozaf___yes17:28
JoseeAntonioRand  that's right!17:28
jsjgrubervery good.17:28
jsjgruberLet's try to enter an IRC command. (Lernid doesn't support IRC commands, but it shouldn't cause it a problem, either):17:29
jsjgruber "/whois jsjgruber"17:29
jsjgruberwithout the quotes, of course17:29
letozaf___I get: [19:29] IRC commands are not yet supported.17:30
jsjgruberthat goes in the bottom right of lernid, and it should just give you an error message right above where you enter it.17:30
jsjgruberletozaf__, excellent17:30
JoseeAntonioRthat's right17:30
jsjgruberletozaf___, excellent17:30
jsjgruberWe used to get a lernid traceback when that happened. That was fixed with coalwater's help.17:31
jsjgruberDid either of you start lernid from a terminal or did you start it from the gui?17:32
JoseeAntonioRgui, you didn't mention debuggin mode D:17:32
jsjgruberNo, I didn't. I have that for later, but I'd thought I'd ask. We'll try it again later if we have time.17:33
jsjgruberlet's try to access flash.17:33
JoseeAntonioRbtw, the calendar updated17:33
jsjgruberLernid is unable to use flash as the newest flash17:33
jsjgrubercrashes webkit programs when run on older CPU's. We want to support access to17:33
jsjgruberthe classroom from the oldest computers Ubuntu supports.17:33
jsjgruberhttp://pastebin.com17:33
jsjgruberany crashes?17:34
JoseeAntonioRno crashes!17:34
jsjgruberNow I'll draw your attention to the Session tab and our current session. Do you see JoseeAntonioR in the list of instructors?17:35
jsjgruberDo you both see JoseeAntonioR in the list of instructors?17:37
JoseeAntonioRI do17:37
letozaf___I do, but not in the session tab but in the schedule tab17:37
jsjgruberSorry, about that, the schedule tab.17:38
letozaf___ok, no prolbem!17:38
jsjgruberYou should be able to press the reload button on the bottom of the schedule tab. Please press it a few times, giving it a little time between presses. Any problems?17:39
letozaf___no problem17:40
jsjgruberJoseeAntonioR, work for you ok?17:40
JoseeAntonioRyep17:40
jsjgruberLet's go to the Session tab at the top.17:40
jsjgruberI'll bring up a slide:17:41
jsjgruber[slidefile https://sites.google.com/site/gruberdocuments/engineering-docs/lernid-test-slides.pdf 3]17:41
jsjgruberand then we will change it:17:41
jsjgruber[slide 4]17:41
jsjgruberare you both still with us, now on slide 4?17:42
JoseeAntonioRyep17:42
letozaf___yes17:42
jsjgruberPlease click on the buttons under the schedule and under the slide to see17:42
jsjgruberthat they do what they say they do.17:42
jsjgruberAny problems?17:42
jsjgruberI'll wait a couple of minutes here.17:42
JoseeAntonioReverything works fine17:43
letozaf___everything is ok17:43
jsjgrubergreat.17:43
jsjgruberLet's try loading a much longer slide file:17:43
jsjgruber[slidefile http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/docs/gtk/guile-gnome-gtk.pdf 2]17:43
jsjgruberPlease tell me when it has loaded.17:43
letozaf___loade17:44
JoseeAntonioRdone17:44
letozaf___sorry loaded17:44
JoseeAntonioR[slide 2]17:44
jsjgruberyou guys must have pretty good connectivity.17:44
jsjgruberI'll load it again.17:44
jsjgruber[slidefile http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/docs/gtk/guile-gnome-gtk.pdf 2]17:44
JoseeAntonioRdone17:44
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letozaf___got it17:44
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jsjgrubervery good.17:45
jsjgruberCould someone please post a question by checking the checkbox at the bottom17:45
jsjgruberright and typeing something?17:45
jsjgruberThe spacing shouldn't look unusual.17:46
jsjgruberletozaf___, excellent, looks right.17:46
jsjgrubercheese is good.17:46
jsjgruberIf you go to the schedule tab you should be able to see irc log entries.17:47
JoseeAntonioRright17:47
letozaf___yes17:47
jsjgruberand should be able to go back in time to see the entries for logs from past days and months.17:47
JoseeAntonioRright17:48
letozaf___right17:48
jsjgruberWould you both please click on an entry or two and see if your browser will bring the log file up in a tab?17:48
JoseeAntonioRthat's correct!17:49
letozaf___yes it works17:49
jsjgruberwe are moving right along now.17:49
jsjgruberPlease go to a new terminal session and enter "man lernid" it should bring up the new lernid man page.17:50
letozaf___yes17:50
JoseeAntonioRyep17:50
jsjgrubervery good.17:50
jsjgruberIn a minute, let's stop lernid and restart it from a terminal this time. As it starts I'd like you to keep an eye on the message bar at the bottom. It should tell you what nick the server has assigned to you.17:52
jsjgruberThen please reenter "/whois jsjgruber"17:52
jsjgruberOk17:52
jsjgruberPlease let me know when you are back17:52
letozaf___ok17:52
letozaf___I'm back and typed the message17:53
JoseeAntonioRhmm, I seem to get no traceback17:54
jsjgruberJoseeAntonioR, great.17:54
letozaf___same for me no message at the bottom17:54
jsjgruberletozaf___, no error in the terminal?17:54
letozaf___no I meant that when I opened learnid from terminal17:55
letozaf___I did not see anything on the message bar17:55
letozaf___at the bottom17:55
jsjgruberletozaf___, let me think about that for a minute. When you entered /whois you got no traceback in the terminal, though?17:56
letozaf___yes17:56
letozaf___Maybe I misunderstood17:56
letozaf___I got a message box telling me my nick17:57
jsjgruberThat's great. That's what we want. I confused matters by asking you to test two things at once.17:57
letozaf___ok17:58
jsjgruberNow I'll ask you to restart lernid again, this time entering the --no-update option on the command line. That option is for those with modems who wouldn't want to reload the calendar several times an hour.17:59
jsjgruberPlease go ahead if you don't mind.17:59
letozaf___ok done18:00
JoseeAntonioRI'm back here18:00
jsjgruberwelcome back, JoseeAntonioR18:01
jsjgruberletozaf___ are you back with us with lernid?18:02
letozaf___yes18:02
jsjgruberno errors, I assume?18:02
letozaf___no errors18:02
jsjgruberUsing the File menu at the top of the screen, please disconnect from the18:02
jsjgrubersession and then reconnect.18:02
jsjgruberplease try it a couple of times.18:03
letozaf___I'm back, everything seems fine18:04
jsjgrubergreat, let's give JoseeAntonioR a bit more time18:04
jsjgruberNo errors for anyone?18:05
JoseeAntonioRI'm done18:05
letozaf___no errors for me18:05
JoseeAntonioRnope18:05
jsjgrubergreat. Let's go to the terminal tab and enter an ls command. Any problems with that?18:06
letozaf___no problems18:06
JoseeAntonioRwhat directory should I list?18:06
jsjgruberIt doesn't matter. Just want to make sure we haven't messed up the terminal with any of the fixes we put elsewhere.18:07
jsjgruberUnless JoseeAntonioR has a problem ...18:08
jsjgruberEverything else we have done falls into the realm of bug fixes and18:08
jsjgrubermaking lernid more robust. It's harder to test them individually so18:08
jsjgruberI'll just ask if anything has gone wrong for anyone--we have already18:08
jsjgrubergone through logging on, loading the calendar, and loading slides, where18:08
jsjgrubermany of the changes have gone.18:08
jsjgruberAnyone having any problems?18:08
jsjgruberYou are free to keep using this version of lernid if you like. If you see18:08
jsjgrubera bug please report it from http://bugs.launchpad.net/lernid. As always, please18:08
jsjgrubernote the release of lernid you are using.18:08
jsjgruberTo go back to the released version of lernid:18:08
jsjgrubersudo ppa-purge ppa:jsjgruber/lernid-proposed18:08
jsjgruberAny final questions or problems?18:08
JoseeAntonioReverything went fine18:09
letozaf___no, everything went fine18:09
jsjgruberThanks to you both for helping me test lernid--it really helps build confidence that everything will work in production as well as it works during my testing.18:10
letozaf___it was a pleasure to help18:10
jsjgruberIt's very important that lernid doesn't distract from our learning sessions by being buggy.18:10
jsjgruberThanks JoseeAntonioR, it was great to have your help once again.18:12
JoseeAntonioRnp :)18:12
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