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proj:antipiracy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-03-30T00:57:41-0400

Home Project Preventing Piracy of Proprietary Add-Ons TO DO Add “Get more features” button to SOFA. Build web system. Build first extensions. SOFA needs to show where it is installer so extensions can be installed to the same place. Rationale * Want an easy purchase and installation experience for legitimate users which, even if it fails, leaves them able to use the community edition functionality of SOFA. It must be easy to install on multiple machines, and to keep upgraded.

proj:bazaar

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-19T00:10:51-0400

Home Project Notes on Using Bazaar/Launchpad New releases * Start from main overview page (click button to return if you lose your way). Click on series link e.g. 0.7, then below, click on Create Release (must be logged in) * Create milestone - name it something like 1.5.0

proj:bonus_themes

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-01-28T14:56:04-0400

Home Project CSS Themes Tips for Creating * alter Value to get the highlight colour * not essential to keep colours completely different as long as colours near each other are distinct * the first colour must always be distinct from the other colours in case they end up against it in a pie chart

proj:business

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-08-30T15:36:35-0400

Home Project Business Model Article Finding a Viable Open Source Business Model - The SOFA Statistics Experience (so far) Keeping Trying till you Succeed A new business is like a shortwave radio. You have to fiddle patiently with all the dials until you get the reception you want How Hard Could It Be?: Start-up Static Offering 1.0 Donations All donations US$10 and over permit the donor to display the

proj:deb

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-09-08T20:08:49-0400

Home Project Notes on Debian Packaging An Alternative - stdeb Hi everyone Some time ago, I gave a talk about the "fpm" package manager a while back. Today, I came across a different tool, which is also available from the Ubuntu repositories called "stdeb": https://github.com/astraw/stdeb I successfully generated a Debian package for one of my little Python utilities: https://github.com/waikato-datamining/docker-banner-gen/releases/tag/v.0.0.6 Just by using this command-line (using the "se…

proj:devdocs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-05-21T20:27:15-0400

Home Project Developer Documentation wxPython 2.8 vs 3.0 SOFA may have to support both wxPython 2.8 and 3.0 depending on platform and OS version. The current code base works on both. If 2.8 has to be supported on some platforms we can manage although it would be best to be able to target just 3.0.

proj:dojo

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-06T04:35:32-0400

Home Project TL;DR Run “0 minify sofastats.py” to make a minified version of “sofastats_report_extras/sofastats.js.uncompressed.js” in the local folder. If good, transfer it over to code. Dojo Usage In Internet Explorer, users will need to click on

proj:dokuwiki

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-10-15T16:00:00-0400

Home Project Dokuwiki Upgrading * download and extract folder * transfer to /home/g/projects/SOFA/storage * rename old wiki folder to dokuwiki-yyy-mm-dd * rename to wiki * copy into /home/sofaroot/public_html/wiki one subfolder at a time, plus files at top level

proj:elliot

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-08-19T20:46:35-0400

Home Project Bug Hunt Mac I am using SOFA on a Mac OS 10.12.5 (Sierra) with a quite small dataset of 170 rows and 30 columns (imported without error messages from an xlsx file). SOFA is running nice and smoothly (I generated a lot of diagrams and reports and also did some ANOVA tests.). The export feature works good for me only with one big and nasty exception: Everytime I chose the option

proj:features

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-02-01T12:00:51-0400

Home Project Features/Tasks What is wrong? We are trying to identify problems or gaps in SOFA Statistics which make it unsuitable for some users. If you don't mind our asking, what were you wanting from SOFA that was lacking? Or was something else a better fit? Please don't spare our feelings - we really need to get this right.

proj:funding

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-03-31T21:06:59-0400

Home Project Funding Yes - it's free, but ... SOFA Statistics is completely free and you can use it without restriction on as many machines as you like. The application is released under the open source AGPL3 licence. The main ways you can support the project are by:

proj:licensing

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2011-08-07T16:44:28-0400

Home Project Licensing Overview * Need clarity on how to approach other people's code to avoid legal problems * Not possible to create SOFA Statistics without using other code - especially libraries * Not intending to dual licence the core. * Expectation that will be able to use all code in a Software-As-a-Service (SAS) arrangement over the web on the grounds that no code is being distributed, except for code licensed under the AGPL

proj:macbinaries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-07-22T06:06:26-0400

Home Project Mac Binaries Background Some tasks are delegated to binary files. On a normal installation these binaries would rely on a web of system dependencies but we need to provide all of that functionality in the SOFA installation. So we need to bake whatever we need into those binaries and to provide whatever dependencies we still need as separate files inside our installation folders. To achieve this, our binaries must have internal

proj:macdev

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-04-21T04:35:14-0400

Home Project Mac Development Environment For packaging of latest version, see macinstallers This page is relevant to building new template (containing binaries etc). NOTE - need a new version to handle 10.7 (Lion) upwards. Explanation: Hi Grant, I remembered the reason that for OS X support sometimes being limited to 10.7. It's because of C++11. The standard library that goes with this, libc++, is only supported as far back as 10.7. If you want to support earlier versions then all of the …

proj:macdevold

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-12-28T13:44:41-0400

Home Project Libraries Required aggelopoulos@gmail.com happy to help test Mac versions of modules e.g. export_output.py Working: * wkhtmltopdf - HTML -> PDF May need to make a special version for Mountain Lion () At choose all downloads to see all releases.

proj:macinstallers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-01-01T14:54:06-0400

Home Project Packaging * debug = False etc as usual * Make sure any js file (e.g. sofastats_charts.js) or folder changes (e.g. googleapi removed), or data changes (sofa.db), are reflected in /home/g/projects/SOFA/SOFA Statistics template.app * Run /home/g/projects/SOFA/0 KEEP pre_OSX_packaging

proj:misc

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2014-06-29T20:36:19-0400

Home Project Miscellaneous Shared Folders in Linux Guests Allow shared folder to be Auto-mount and Make Permanent. And add the main user in the VM to be in the vboxsf group (amongst others of course). On the guest - e.g.: sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf

proj:opencore

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-09-07T11:48:48-0400

Home Project Extensions and Piracy Start with the approach which minimises hassle to people who want to pay. Handle piracy by making cracked versions unnecessary (hardship - contact me for the extension for free). If lots of money is being lost to piracy, and the reduction of sales by introducing anti-piracy measures didn't outweigh it, consider using encryption/internet checking/registration processes

proj:packagingstrategies

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2011-08-02T04:25:44-0400

Home Project Packaging Strategies Modular vs Self-Contained Overview There are two schools of thought when it comes to installing applications. The first, common to Windows and Mac OS X, is that applications should be self-contained, and their installation should not depend on anything else. This philosophy simplifies the management of applications: each application is its own standalone "appliance", and installing and removing them should not disturb the rest of the OS. If the applicati…

proj:prepackaging

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-05-11T00:29:13-0400

Home Project Before Packaging Unset Test Settings * debug = False on all scripts (search for debug = True - it will fix next issue in same process). Include dev_debug = False. * test_lang = False in home.py * EXPORT_IMAGES_DIAGNOSTIC = False in my_globals.py

proj:project

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-09-21T16:07:12-0400

Home Project Use Only SOFALite Notes Complete Release Process Windows Installer Notes Ubuntu Dev Machine Setup ---------- Elliot dev, packaging, testing Mac Binaries Developer Documentation Before Packaging Packaging Strategies Deb Package Notes Mac Installer Notes Mac Development Environment tar.gz Notes Sourceforge Notes Bazaar/Launchpad Notes SOFA Website Notes Promotion/Marketing Translation & i18n Screencasts Licensing CSS Themes Usability Testi…

proj:promotion

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-08-15T19:35:02-0400

Home Project Promotion and Marketing Promoting new releases * Update version number and release date in * Update latest release date at * Add blog entry to sofa site * Tweet on it. * If important enough, add blog entry to pssst site Getting Users to Vote etc

proj:release

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-09-21T16:11:27-0400

Make New Releases * Make new deb * Make new tar.gz * Perhaps make new Windows msi * Update in release_process/notes changes and (derived) readme Add Files to Sourceforge * Log in * Add new folder e.g. 1.5.7 * Select folder * Upload files including readme

proj:sales

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-04-30T16:06:18-0400

Home Project Plug-ins, Bonus Themes etc Refund? Good news - the newest versions of SOFA (1.4.3 and even earlier) include the plug-in functionality for free. You are entitled to a refund if you'd like. General Supply customer with plug-in, EULA, bonus themes and, when appropriate, file-copying bash script. They are in ~/projects/SOFA/plug-ins bonus themes etc. If the user has only ordered the Image plug-in, see the image only subfolder for convenience.

proj:screencasts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2011-01-10T04:42:43-0400

Home Project Screencasting * Make screencasts using gtkRecordMyDesktop. Saved as ogvs. * Make videos using OpenShot. * AVI (mpeg4) * Use 776×582 (4:3) video (saved as showmedo profile) - suitable for display on showmedo.com * Video 5Mb/s DVD quality (1.25 too poor)

proj:sofalite

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-10-30T01:02:39-0400

Home Project SOFALite Notes Changes from SOFA Features Removed * No image processing - leave that up to general tools e.g. screen shotting, printing to PDF from web browser etc * No translations - no more _() everywhere, no more packaging .pot files etc, no more having to make strings static

proj:sofawebsite

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-03-14T15:04:54-0400

Home Project Notes on Updating SOFA Statistics Website * Update home.php. New version and mini-list of changes. * Update features.php if any new features * Update downloads.php. Update version number. Adjust file sizes if necessary. * Update latest_sofastatistics_version.txt and (if required) latest_major_sofastatistics_version.txt. NEVER update the sofastats versions as it will break versions 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 (the code for showing the update now link is broken in those versions).

proj:sourceforge

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2011-03-18T23:21:28-0400

Home Project Notes on Sourceforge Upload new files * Make sure you are logged in ;-) * Files * Select sofastatistics * Add folder n.n.n. * Select folder * Add 5 files: * updated version of readme_n.n.n.txt from /home/g/projects/SOFA/notes/. *

proj:targz

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2011-03-18T23:15:57-0400

Home Project Notes on Preparing tar.gz Run script run 0 KEEP pre_LINUX_packaging.py (in SOFA/storage) - details below. Step by Step * empty sofaclean (except for init needed for importing) * add folder called sofastats-n.n.n * copy the bits of sofa.main that we want inside (very similar to portion of DEB packaging script)

proj:translation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-04-12T00:05:43-0400

Home Project Translation and i18n Contact Kathrin.Seibt@mailbox.tu-dresden.de to help with German translation Translation Glossary * .pot: a template that includes the English text that you want people to translate. msgid and msgstr (all empty) * .po: translations for one language in a human-readable and editable form. A renamed copy of the pot file with (hopefully) most of the msgstr's filled in

proj:ubuntudev

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-08-14T21:31:36-0400

Home Project Ubuntu Dev Machine Setup Make virtual environment env under top-level folder (of course). Use proper multi-folder import strategy (of course). pip install everything including wxpython Before installing wxpython, sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev and pip install wheel (so a wheel gets used). Need libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev otherwise wxPython will not be compiled with wx.html2 support for backend. Will fail when wx.html2.WebView.New() because backend not compiled …

proj:usability

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-02-22T03:41:59-0400

Home Project Usability Testing * Alex has volunteered (show him the book and how to do it too)

proj:wininstallers

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-08-14T05:15:18-0400

Home Project Windows Installer Notes What Next If already set up dev pipeline on machine go straight to “Make Package - Overview”. Otherwise, “Windows Development and Packaging - From Scratch” Make Package - Overview * Update sofawin/licence.txt if necessary