GSoC: June 30 - August 03

Published on August 4, 2014.

This is one of the reports about my GSoC project and cover the tenth and eleventh week of “Students coding”.

At this two weeks I work on small issues at my keyboard and some bugs at the native keyboard that will improve my one.

Breaking Lesson Manager Project

Published on August 1, 2014.

On August 1st I talk with Greg Wilson about the Lesson Manager. At this post I will try to sumarize what I learn from our conversation.

The most important lesson learned is breaking the project into small parts:

Phase 1

Smoke Test Script for Virtual Keyboard

Published on July 29, 2014.

Some time ago I do an smoke test. To help rerun it I wrote a small script <smoke.py>. Below is the result of the smoke test.

+------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ + Test Description + Status + +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Switch row works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on switch row keys. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Latin keyboard works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on Latin letter. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Shift key for Latin letters works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on shift key and one Latin letter. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Shift key lock for Latin letters works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Lock the shift key and click on Latin letter. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Backspace works for Latin letter? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on Latin letter and on backspace. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Alternative Latin letters works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click and hold on Latin letter (e.g. "A"). | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Shift key for Alternative Latin letters works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on shift key and hold on Latin letter. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Shift key lock for Alternative Latin letters works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Lock the shift key and hold on Latin letter. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Backspace works for Alternative Latin letter? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Hold on Latin letter and click on backspace. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Alternative styled Latin letters works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click and hold on Latin letter (e.g. "A"). | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Shift key for Alternative styled Latin letters works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on shift key and hold on Latin letter. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Shift key lock for Alternative styled Latin letters works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Lock the shift key and hold on Latin letter. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Backspace works for Alternative styled Latin letter? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Hold on Latin letter and click on backspace. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Alternate keyboard works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on alternate key. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Backspace works for alternate keys works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on alternate key and on backspace. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Alternative alternate key works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click and hold on alternative key (e.g. "1"). | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Symbol keyboard works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on symbols key. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Backspace works for symbols? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on symbols key and on backspace. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Greek keyboard works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on Greek letter. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Shift key for Greek letters works? | <span style="color:red;">FAIL</span> | | | | | Click on shift key and one Greek letter. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Shift key lock for Greek letters works? | <span style="color:red;">FAIL</span> | | | | | Lock the shift key and click on Greek letter. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Backspace works for Greek letter? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on Greek letter and on backspace. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Math Symbol keyboard works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on math symbol key. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Backspace works for math symbols? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on math symbol and on backspace. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Alternative math symbol works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click and hold on math symbol (e.g. "∫"). | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Jumps works for math symbols? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on math symbol and on "RETURN". | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Math Functions keyboard works? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on math function key. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Backspace works for math function? | <span style="color:green;">PASS</span> | | | | | Click on math symbols and on backspace. | | +------------------------------------------------------------+--------+

Mozilla Science Lab 2014 Summer Sprint

Published on July 27, 2014.

A few days ago, July 22-23, happens the first Mozilla Science Lab Sprint. It was an amazing experience participate at the sprint and at this post you will find some reflections about it.

Rooms

For the sprint some Mozilla Offices, some universities and others organizations offer a room where people can work and meet others. For those that couldn't attend one of the rooms was also possibly to participate remotely. This combination was very nice and make possible to everyone that want take part on it.

MathML July Meeting

Published on July 27, 2014.

This is a report about the Mozilla MathML July IRC Meeting (see the announcement here). The topics of the meeting can be found in this PAD (local copy of the PAD <pad.txt>) and the IRC log (local copy of the IRC log <irc.txt>) is also available.