Bug Progress

During our presentation on Thursday, the consensus for us was to find out how to properly create multiple-line names.  Not long after our presentation (during the time left over from class), we made excellent progress.  Megan figured out how to create multiple-line names.  This helped us better understand what Walter was saying about how our fix could potentially mess up names of users that have multiple lines.  Once we tested this out, it all made sense.  Now the tricky part was to figure out a work-around.  With the time remaining in class, we all gathered together to look at what our possibilities were.  We're left with two options:

1.  Implement our current fix only on initial creation of the user's name, that way they can still edit their names later.
2.  Implement a more sophisticated fix that will allow the user to have multiple-lined names, both on creation of the user account, and when editing the account.

Of course we would like to opt for the second solution, that way no user's of sugar will ever be able to tell the difference in what we've done.  We spent some time on Thursday trying to figure out a possible algorithm to address this fix, but we knew we would need to spend more time on it this weekend.  On Friday, I set up a folder for our group on Subversion, and I uploaded the current changes I made for our bug.

Yesterday (Sunday), our team met up for about two hours to try and make some more progress on this bug.  To start, I made sure that everyone was able to access subversion successfully, and get the code that we had when we left off, and it seems that everyone was able to get the code successfully.  We continued working on the bug, and made some progress.  After we had left on Thursday, we were unable to open the About Me section (the place where you enter the name), because it seems that the code did not compile successfully.  We were able to properly compile the code, but then seemed to be stuck in some sort of infinite loop.  After reviewing our code multiple times, I was able to successfully update the user name, but it seems that it wasn't properly recognizing the multi-line characters.  Since this isn't due just yet, we decided to call it a night and pick this up again later this week when we're able to meet.