On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is called an "update". Anyone who updates to a current update.1 > build loses those activities. As far as I am aware there has been no > official announcement exactly how to get back the missing activities.
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-March/011509.html (a thread you participated in) http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6598#comment:12 I apologize for not making a more prominent announcement; it's on my list of things to do before we declare the next release candidate -- and we haven't gotten there yet. I am way overextended; I'm doing my best to keep all the cats heading in one direction. > Without an effort to get back the activities (which was not even > mentioned as a to-do item in your message) I indeed do not think it > is "reasonable". It was mentioned as a release note item. Again, I'm sorry that I didn't spell it out completely: there will be a prominent message on the home page pointing people to an activity pack which will install all the G1G1 activities on top of the update.1 build. You assistance in creating that pack would, of course, be greatly appreciated! > This entire dropping of activities came out of nowhere. Until a few > days ago I thought that we were all together working on a new OS > version called update.1. Again, I apologize that this was not better communicated, but I am not, in fact, the release manager or the build manager, or anything. I'm just a software engineer who's trying to make things work. There was a big summit at OLPC at the beginning of last week to try to get critical bugs fixed for Peru. I strongly recommended at that meeting that we make an update.1 build for G1G1 users, and then move on to update.1.1 to address the customization and networking concerns of Peru, Mexico, Nepal, etc. I was overruled; it was decided that we did not have the resources for this (a point which I certainly concede). So, the needs of update.1 are driven at this point primarily by the needs of our deployment countries. It may be that the result will be unsuitable for G1G1 folks, although at the moment it's only the activity pack business which fits uncomfortably. But we don't have the resources to tackle everything at once. Again, this earlier discussion should have made it's way to devel@ last week. I'm not certain that it was my personal responsibility to do so, but I will apologize at any rate. > Judging by other comments I am not alone in > thinking this. I am following the lists very closely, but until I saw > that ticket about removing activities there was not any hint that > this is not going to happen. Again, we were under time pressure and the (incorrect) assumption was that we could wait until we have a public release candidate to clarify how the core builds worked. It's always a big effort to write the documentation at the same time as the implementation, but it obviously would have helped a lot here. I hope that in my voluminious emailing this week I've done at least a little bit of retrospective documentation. > I as an activity developer of one of the > formerly "pre-installed" activities still do not know how to proceed. > You could at least communicate your intentions, if indeed providing a > useable build is not possible soon. Again, the builds are designed to be usable for Peru, Mexico, and Nepal. I am hard at work (although constantly distracted by all this email) at providing a full customization key image that allows us all to test exactly the configuration they have requested. Walter Bender is the head of the deployment team. If you want further insight as to which activities are being installed in which countries, and the recommendations he is making, you should contact him. It's not a technical issue any more, it's a deployment-side issue. It may well be that we need a new mailing list specifically for the community to keep track of deployment issues; the weekly emails might not be giving activity and content authors enough insight into the actual deployments. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
