Hi All, Here's my weekly report for week ending 9/26.
*********************** Status against last week goals: 1 - Hound engineers to close all 8.2.0 blockers (see http://dev.laptop.org/report/28) and get a firm date for the Release Candidate build. Triage bugs and keep the release on schedule. GS - Done! In the end, no hounding was needed :-) Triaged bugs but fell a little behind the incoming rate this week. Also picked and tested a set of additional activities to add to the G1G1 default install. 2 - Clean up open bugs section of 8.2. release notes. Get release notes ready for final review. GS - Mostly done. Top section finished and ready for final review. Human readable explanation and categorization of key bugs started. Final edits and comments welcome: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0 3 - Write 8.2 launch plan and technical overview presentation. GS - Not done. Wrote brief blurb on the release for re-use in promoting it. Still need to list communication vehicles, choose the right landing page (Release notes?) and refine the high level message for the release. First pass release message: 8.2 has major enhancements including: - A flexible Home view and Journal with several options for searching and organizing activities. - An enhanced Frame for accessing other XOs and peripherals and for switching between running activities. - A Graphical Control Panel for setting language, network, power and other defaults. - An automated Software Update tool which finds the latest version of activities and updates them over the Internet. - Capability to backup XOs to a school server and restore files to the Journal as needed. - A new manual shipped with the XO as an activity. - Many other bug fixes and enhancements. For more details, see the final draft of the Release Notes at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0 4 - Share and post 8.2.1 time frame and operating procedure (e.g. Trac queries). Start planning for Early Field Trial/Beta of 8.2.1. Keep pushing for an engineering leader/owner of 8.2.1. GS - Not done. Pushed for an engineering owner a little but not too hard until 8.2 is done. 5 - Review and finalize short 9.1 strategy description. Restructure requirements section to align with strategy. Fold in more deployment requirements. Keep pushing for an engineering leader/owner of 9.1. Stretch goal: prepare to write detailed requirements sections and start scrubbing bugs to create working Trac queries. GS - Mostly not done. Added a few more details, discussed strategy and country demands. Added some more detailed requirements for deployability at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0#Security.2C_Activation_and_Deployability 6 - Update deployments page. Update releases page and start using new semantic format (thanks to S Page for laying out the structure). Also update XS sections of releases page. GS - Not done but did get approval to repost statistics on XOs "Delivered, shipped and ordered" by country. See also this URL for new deployment and XO information: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Learning_Workshops Some of this will be integrated in my next update of the Deployments page. ****************** Goals for next week in priority order: 1 - Get 8.2 to manufacturing. Catch up on bug triage. 2 - Finish 8.2 Release notes and get final review of them from engineering. 3 - Finalize blurb used to promote the release and start sending it out to internal lists. Write more generally usable Release message. 4 - Update deployments page and releases page. 5 - Post more detailed 8.2.1 page and restructure 9.1 page. 6 - Once 8.2 ships, open a bottle of Champagne. One glass then start work on the next release :-) Thanks, Greg S _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
