Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:06:51 -0400 From: Jim Gettys <jg [ at ] laptop [ dot ] org> Subject: [Community-news] OLPC News - (2008-6-30) To: community-news [ at ] laptop [ dot ] org Message-ID: <1214834811.6491.91.camel@jg-vaio> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 ?Marco Pesenti Gritti spent a couple of days triaging the over 500 tickets assigned to Glucose (the Sugar core packages). We have now a pretty decent list of things that we should target for 8.2.0. He discussed with Greg Smith and Michael Stone the release process and contributed to the document which has been posted to the public development mailing on Friday. He tracked down and found an easy solution for the problems with ConsoleKit in the Fedora 9 based builds, which was causing USB devices and system shutdown to not work. Finally he revised the code review process to make easier to track patches and ensure they are looked at, which is very important to keep the community motivated. In the process he added QA test cases to the process and wrote scripts to automatically generate list of changes and testcases for each release and to send a daily report about patch reviews status to the sugar list.? ?Tomeu Vizoso also triaged and started fixing bugs as Sugar reached feature freeze: packaged an updated version of Gnash to fix a Browse crash, set the correct icon when dragging an activity icon, correctly align icons in the frame, etc. ?Hemant Goyal reports ?that Fedora and OLPC developers can now download the speech-dispatcher RPM packages for testing/development of speech enabled activities. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-June/006685.html Walter Bender's Sugar digest can be found at: http://lists.lo-res.org/pipermail/its.an.education.project/2008-June/001150.html There is the Sugar Labs meeting taking place in Milan today (Monday, 30 June 2008). We'll be reporting on the meeting on the #sugar-meeting channel of irc.freenode.net beginning at approximately 9:00 UTC+2. Please join in (Also, feel free to send any questions or comments beforehand to walter at sugarlabs.org). ------------ Guillaume Desmottes reviewed all Dafydd Harries' gadget branches and implemented persistent buddy views support. He also improved Gabble's Gadget tests and view code (see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Gadget_integration_TODO#Gabble for all the Gabble action items) In the last two weeks, Elliot Fairweather has been working with telepathy-python and started writing telepathy-synapse, a connection manager for Cerebro. So far he has code to generate and maintain a contact list for nodes on the network. Sjoerd Simons has been working on making Network Manager 0.7 work with the OLPC mesh devices. At this point he can join mesh networks standard IP configuration. Support for dhcp using anycast and being able to act as a mesh portal MPP should follow next week. -------------- SW Development / Release: Greg Smith joined OLPC this week as our Product Manager. He will help focus and prioritize features for our releases based on input from deployments, support, sales, and development. He will also provide information to our sales team on product capabilities and usage. Greg worked with Michael Stone this week on the first draft of the full release process: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Process_Home. Comments and suggestions are welcome! Dennis changed the Joyride build stream to be based onF-9. He also worked on communicating how to push patches upstream and why this is in the best interest of OLPC. We should have really good reasons to fork a patch; many times there is another way to fix a package so that it fits both OLPC and Fedora's best interest. Another option might be to add run time options to enable functionality that OLPC wants when its really unsuitable for general Fedora use. Please get help from Dennis whenever you need help figuring out make something more suitable for upstream. Daniel Drake continued working on Fedora 9 bug-fixing efforts, following up on the fixes produced last week and solving a bug in the new gnash browser plugin. Significant Fedora 9 regressions are being tracked here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC-3 Paul Fox succeeded in building a version of the EC (embedded controller) firmware, helped out with the touchpad issues, and posted a timestamped log of system boot, as an example of how it might be useful in guiding speedup work. Sayamindu Dasgupta worked on completing the internationalization support in sugar-toolkit and sugar-base, and added them to Pootle once they had been made translatable. He also removed the old terminology section in Pootle, and replaced it with a new glossary for sugar, taking in UI terms which occur more than once in Sugar and the activities. He used the poterminology script to generate the glossary, thanks to Alexander Dupuy for the work on the script. Martin Langhoff has traffic control and time-based snapshots done on the datastore-backup project. Next we now need a simple UI listing available activities, and the rpm packaging scripts. He also ran a highly entertaining seminar on the School Server (XS). Community/Activities: Greg Smith is helping the EduBlog project moving forward. See the requirements, project timeline and design proposal at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Blog_Educativo_Plan_del_Proyecto Try the Alpha version out at: http://olpc.betarun.com/dev/ui/student_sp.php Martin Langhoff and Michael Stone joined FUDCon's (Fedora User and Developer's Conference) Barcamp on Saturday, gave a talk on the wonders of the school server; there was an outpouring of help with our current questions, and offers of help with some packages. The Record activity is broken on F9's new gstreamer libraries. A gstreamer developer suggested that Record's gstreamer pipeline is invalid and was surprised that it worked on previous releases. Daniel is reworking and improving the pipeline to fix the activity. Testing: Joe Feinstein and Kim Quirk prepared and delivered a presentation "QA/Testing at OLPC" to the TechTeam, Slides can be found at http://wiki.laptop.org/images/a/a6/QA_at_OLPC.pdf Joe Feinstein continued testing the 8.1.1 build-candidate (708) in the stand-alone and collaboration (without school server) environment. He assisted Greg Smith in creating some "use cases" and set up a testbed to verify the limits of the "under the tree" collaboration environment. We haven't had a large testbed of laptops in many weeks, so this will be a focus over the next few weeks when we begin testing builds for the 8.2.0 release. Support/Sysadmin: Henry Hardy reports that automated daily backups via rsync are in place for our three big mission-critical servers: crank (dev), pedal (mail), and solar (vservers). We are starting to discuss planning for upgrades and extensions to the rt and trac ticket systems. Adam Holt and Kim Quirk set up a meeting with5 repair centers who are getting off the ground. Adam has sent each of them some broken laptops to seed their spare parts bins and give them some experience in repairing laptops. We are also working with a few e-commerce sites who would be interested in providing the spare parts to G1G1 people and small deployments in the US and Canada. There are many things these repair centers need to start their business (non-profit or for-profit). We are trying to help them. Sean Hooley and Frances Hopkins continue to work with Adam on the end of the first G1G1 issues. The quantity of laptops that need reshipment each week is finally starting to decrease. We posted a notice that June 30th is the last day that people can activate their T-Mobile accounts. Adam and group of volunteers from the Chicago ILXO office (http://ILXO.org) analyzed 775 laptops from the Chicago warehouse, mostly returns, to determine the status. Most of them were reflashed with software and can be part of the developer's and testing programs (used, but otherwise good). Only 200 of them were broken. -- Jim Gettys <jg [ at ] laptop [ dot ] org> One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Community-news mailing list Community-news [ at ] lists [ dot ] laptop [ dot ] org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/community-news End of Community-news Digest, Vol 27, Issue 4 ********************************************* -- P Πριν εκτυπώσετε αυτό το μήνυμα, σκεφθείτε το περιβάλλον! Ένα χαρτί λιγότερο! - http://karounos.gr/blog/