Hey all, Wanted to recap my experience at the hackathon this weekend.
- Great to meet the team. I'm very appreciative of Ian and James to make themselves available for such a long time. - The micro-SD card distros that were handed to us had bugs that required us face-time from Ian, Nick Daly, or James, who happened to know how to resolve the bugs. In particular, there is a missing symlink from "/etc/resolvconf/run" to "/run/resolvconf". Also I believe there are also remnants in the /etc/fstab that no longer apply to the present system. This cost cycles from three of us who wanted to get up and running for the first time. Please fix this. (I can't.) - FreedomBox works on the GuruPlug. I have documentation here <http://wiki.debian.org/GuruPlugTesting> (most of it is copied from Ian and his DreamPlug guide). - There was no infrastructure to connect my FreedomBox to the Internet. Normally something that is easy to do on Debian, it was a challenge to get my FreedomBox updated with software packages to develop at the hackathon. Perhaps more experienced developers of the platform have favourite methods of connecting to the Internet when mobile (tethering, etc.), but most of us were unprepared for this. At home, I solve this problem by physically connecting my plug computers to my Ethernet router. - Plinth needs some simple upgrades and example patterns to ease people into it. Two simple ideas right now: (a) Make a less scary error message when a user tries to log into Plinth with a nonexistent user/pass. I got a stack trace to a __getitem__ method, which, imo, is very scary. (Exception happens when a SELECT database call returns None and you try to access index [0] of None.) (b) I tried to develop directly on my FreedomBox because I took the task of adding a web interface and backend scripts for wireless capabilities of the device. There's something hardcoded in there to use 127.0.0.1 on every redirect, which got me nowheres! I'm fine with fixing those two small bugs, but I'm providing examples of what made hacking at the hackathon hard. There's a lot of interest surrounding this project, but maybe a little work could go a long way to utilizing people's time. Thanks again! See you at the next one, or perhaps before then. Sean _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
