On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:49, Gary C Martin wrote: > On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:03, Michael Stone wrote: > >>> El Mon, 24-08-2009 a las 20:58 +0200, Martin Langhoff escribi=F3: >>>> And also... and completely from the outside... I'll apologise in >>>> advance for saying something I know might be controversial. I worry >>>> that SL seems to have -- for a external party like me -- more >>>> bureaucracy than it has people "doing". IMHExperience, the >>>> projects I >>>> enjoy working on, and that I see being productive have a much >>>> lower >>>> "procedure/label/committe " : contributor ratio. >>> >>> I don't necessarily disagree with you, but just 2 days ago I was >>> offered >>> an advice on the other side of the spectrum by Michael: he notes >>> that a >>> lot of important things are falling through the cracks because >>> nobody >>> organizes the available resources. His suggestion is to introduce >>> real >>> project management into the game, which is basically what David's >>> Projects idea seems to bring. >> >> For the record, I consider my puny efforts to offer more support for >> Martin's >> and Greg's remarks than for David's. >> >> (The analysis is simply that our current situation is unsurprising >> given the >> facts that, first, SL seems to consist more of leaders than of >> followers and >> second, that there seems to be a real dearth of people who care more >> about >> getting other people unstuck than about making progress on their own >> pet >> projects.) >> >> (Though, obviously, I'm more guilty than most here.) >> >>> A meta-comment on your post: you don't need to apologize and be shy >>> for >>> offering your criticism, no matter how many people will disagree >>> with >>> you. >> >> Actually, he does need to apologize and to be shy because doing so >> makes it >> easier for folks to hear what he's trying to say. >> >> (In our current environment, it works rather similarly to good-cop/ >> bad-cop.) >> >>> I recently got useful criticism from Bemasc, Christoph and Daniel on >>> #sugar regarding our relationship with Deployments. Their feeling >>> is >>> that we didn't do enough to get them involved, mine is that our >>> efforts >>> to reach out have been largely unsuccessful for reasons I do not >>> fully >>> understand. >> >> Here's another reason for you to consider: >> >> I have come to believe that many people involved in deployments have >> *learned* >> that they're not going to get anything useful out of interacting >> with SL >> because: >> >> 1. SL has largely ignored the feedback supplied by these deployments >> in >> 2007-2008 and exhaustively documented by Greg Smith and S Page at >> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Roadmap > > Wow, blast from the past :-) Actually I'd strongly disagree here. > Having re-read through most of what is listed here, much progress has > been made on a large number (dare I say majority) of these items!
OK, I took up my own challenge here... So, please do treat comments below as from the peanut-gallery, and not as authoritative responses to these ~82 feature requests – many of them significant compound feature sets in of themselves. I'd say close to 50% have been resolved, 10% are specifically XO hardware related, 10% XS server, 15% I don't know enough to confirm or deny, 5-10% are duplicates: FWIW: There's a cold beer waiting at the end of this email. -- Feature roadmap/Spell checker in Write: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Spell_checker_in_Write English checking is back in and working, though unsure about other languages, likely just down to availability of a dictionary file for a given language. -- Feature roadmap/Sugarized color picker: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Sugarized_color_picker Done and in working for Write, Paint Activity (and others that use colour) haven’t picked this up yet, just a matter of free time (I almost did Paint but keep getting distracted). -- Feature roadmap/Easy "Sugarization": http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Easy_%22Sugarization%22 How long is this piece of wet string ;-) But there has been lot’s of effort here. Off the top of my head I’d point to the switch to Metacity in 0.86, Tomeu’s GTK+ widget for making Gnash content into full Activities, Tomeu’s hellow-world PyQt based Activity example. Benjamin’s GSOC Groupthink workhttp://bemasc.net/~bens/groupthink/groupthink-module.html for solving collaboration simply (for the author) in many classes of Activity type. Lucian’s GSOC Webified work http://honeyweb.wordpress.com/ for creating custom site specific browser Activities. Universal bundle work from Aleksey came close but pused to 0.88 for time/ stability reasons. -- Feature roadmap/Activity updater improvements: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Activity_updater_improvements This was part of OLPC distro onlu for a long time, but is now recently over as a part of Sugar. Majority of work I’m aware of is to get it working smoothly with the activities.sugarlabs.org mozilla addons based site (a big improvement from all the manual wiki hacking). -- Feature roadmap/Concept maps: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Concept_maps Me, me, ME!! ;-) No, actually Tomeu picked up Labyrinth sugarisation, then I did some UI polishing and hooked up extra features along with the talented Aleksey. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Labyrinth -- Feature roadmap/New activities: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/New_activities Mixed list here. Abiword has always allow pasting of images to my knowledge. Socialcalc is still rolling along with updates from time to time. The switch to Metacity for 0.86 allows any application to be run if you really want to go that way (and if the HW can actually cope). Tomeu has added a Gnash GTK+ widget and an example PyQt hello world. -- Feature roadmap/Browse update and multi-media: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Browse_update_and_multi-media Hmmm... did this get done? Yep, think it did. -- Feature roadmap/Terminal improvements: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Terminal_improvements Hmmm... Somewhat vague requests. We’ve since got multi tab support instead! -- Feature roadmap/Better eBook reader: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Better_eBook_reader Lot’s of effort, new Activity options (James) and format support (Sayamindu) now available. Probably needs re-evaluation based on where we are now. -- Feature roadmap/Single sign-on from Browse: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Single_sign-on_from_Browse Pass. I’ve seen work happening, but having never tested or tried this side of school server work so don’t know where we stand today. -- Feature roadmap/"Candy Bag" or "Bulletin Board" activity: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/%22Candy_Bag%22_or_%22Bulletin_Board%22_activity Aleksey created a very feature rich Library Activity - perhaps too feature rich ;-) – some of which is going into 0.86 Journal and is related to other proposed features now pushed to 0.88. -- Feature roadmap/Scalable link-local presence: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Scalable_link-local_presence Another long piece of wet string, but specifically Cerebro seems to have no one recently pushing on it for adoption. So most efforts are in debugging existing stack, picking up general fixes and features from Collabora, (scalability work seems aimed at server side). -- Feature roadmap/Synchronous collaboration: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Synchronous_collaboration Big bag of different feature here. Some done (Journal ‘send to -> friend’ file sharing via both gabble & salut), some not, some now for 0.88 (Gadget/JID stuff), some partial (buddy tagging is in same ball game, but more viable/useful vs. buddy avatars). Should also mention Benjamin’s GSOC Groupthink work solving collaboration for many classes of Activity type. -- Feature roadmap/Collaboration groups: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Collaboration_groups Sure Martin mentioned this is implemented (using Moodle) but not necessarily tested/used much yet. Tomeu also implemented buddy tagging (aka profiles) – Gabble only at the moment, and the UI hasn’t made 0.86. -- Feature roadmap/Asynchronous collaboration: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Asynchronous_collaboration Long list of (server based) features here that seem to be a description of what I understand Moodle (or some other CMS) is designed to do... Some feature work for Browse in 0.86 should smooth some rough edges (upload/download file naming). -- Feature roadmap/File sharing: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/File_sharing For user initiated transfers Tomeu’s Journal ‘send to -> friend’ feature solves much of this. Aleksey’s Library Activity is aimed at the ad-hox ‘making some Journal stuff generally available’. Solutions for getting the latter into 0.86 Journal were considered, but pushed to 0.88. -- Feature roadmap/Journal improvements: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Journal_improvements Some of this is done (Tomeu’s Datastore rework, specifically for robustness). But plans have moved on given the SL volunteers able & willing to do the work. -- Feature roadmap/Hardware alerts: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Hardware_alerts The specific use case (95% disk space) was already covered (though a little crudely). Notifications are running quite well but don’t cover devices yet (I think), which would likely be the correct place for these alerts. -- Feature roadmap/Contextual help: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Contextual_help Not much movement here yet, at least we have more accelerator keys getting shown in palettes so you can learn the keyboard shortcuts in context :-) (FWIW, my vote is to focus on making Activities *simpler* so they do not need help text bloat, and use better secondary help hint messages). -- Feature roadmap/GUI suggestion from SJ: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/GUI_suggestion_from_SJ This is a path to walk rather than a feature. Think we are making good progress down this path. -- Feature roadmap/Trash can: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Trash_can No description or specification at all on this one. I’m guessing “Trashcan for Journal” no work done I’m aware of. -- Feature roadmap/Scalable zoom levels: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Scalable_zoom_levels A Neighbourhood list view almost made an 0.86 appearance, but think it’s pushed to 0.88 now. Same goes for additional UI design work needed for Gadget. Though Tomeu’s buddy tagging is in 0.86 (but no UI exposure and Gabble only). -- Feature roadmap/Keyboard navigability: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Keyboard_navigability Many toolbar palettes now clearly display their accelerator keys, and several views are now using the GTK+ treeview for 0.86, so inherit better keyboard navigation accessibility. -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Grab-scroll keys: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Grab-scroll_keys It is implemented in several Activities (Labyrinth uses it to pan the canvas), and there is an (XO hardware specific) keyboard shim type background daemon that has been demonstrated as a potential general solution. -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Blinking lights usage http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Blinking_lights_usage No description, specification at all on this one. Pretty sure Mikus was after the voodoo that drives the XO HW wireless leds. -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/VGA Projector: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/VGA_Projector Not much SL can do. Though there is a VNC screen sharing activity or two that may help, along with some better Activity collaboration. -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Accurate touchpad: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Accurate_touchpad No comment ;-) Actually Sugar can help with better keyboard navigation and key discovery (both have made good progress). FWIW Pail Fox has been reviewing and making more touch pad discoveries, there is a new driver in the F11-on-XO1 tree, but I don’t think it’s in the latest available build yet. -- Feature roadmap/Run Fedora applications on XO: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Run_Fedora_applications_on_XO 0.86’s move to Metacity will help a lot here, but this feature is largely obsoleted now that the F11-on-XO1 OLPC builds ship both Sugar (the default) and GNOME desktop, and have a button to reboot between the two if desired. -- Feature roadmap/Copying files between Journal and USB: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Copying_files_between_Journal_and_USB Done. Also Tomeu’s 0.84 datastore work made using a USB stick between different operating systems *much* more reliable (no ghosts, no vanishing files, no odd doppelgänger). -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Replace JFFS file system with better one: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Replace_JFFS_file_system_with_better_one Only a low level FS issue linked to XO HW needs really, nothing SL can do about this. XO1.5 will avoid this issue due to HW changes. -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/NAND full should not crash XO: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/NAND_full_should_not_crash_XO Done (though somewhat crudely). -- Feature roadmap/File name and directory access: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/File_name_and_directory_access Tomeu’s 0.84 datastore work improves some of this, it is just a simple file directory structure. Could perhaps do with a trivial ls-journal (or some such name) script to make terminal Journal browsing better for novice use. The copy-to-journal and copy-from-journal already work well for most needs. -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Rebase on Fedora 10: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Rebase_on_Fedora_10 Done, well obsolete. Ongoing F11 and F12 work. SoaS work has also been a help here getting in bug reports etc. -- Feature roadmap/Spell checking: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Spell_checking Sayamindu has an interesting ‘dictionary everywhere’ effort http://people.sugarlabs.org/sayamindu/global_dictionary.ogv Not sure why, but seems to have slipped 0.86. I could also see a smaller version as a possible ‘dictionary device’ palette in the frame. -- Feature roadmap/Better Arabic Support: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Better_Arabic_Support Pass. Sorry don’t know enough about this to comment. -- Feature roadmap/Enhanced i18n: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Enhanced_i18n Don’t know the details, but I think quite a chunk of work has been done here (by Sayamindu). Also being able to select several fallback languages in 0.86 I’m sure is a big help. -- Feature roadmap/SCIM: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/SCIM Pass. Sorry don’t know enough about this to comment. -- Feature roadmap/Language customization: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Language_customization Think this is done as well but not enough detail in feature description to know. -- Feature roadmap/Language pack version 3: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Language_pack_version_3 Pass. Sorry don’t know enough about this to comment, though I have seen a fair amount of discussion about issues it raises. -- Feature roadmap/RTL support: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/RTL_support Duplicate feature of above ‘Better Arabic Support.’ Sorry don’t know enough about this to comment. -- Feature roadmap/Multilanguage support: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Multilanguage_support Completed for 0.86 (a new CP lets you select languages in order of preference). -- Feature roadmap/Translations: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Translations Pass. Sorry don’t know enough about this to comment. -- Feature roadmap/Network Manager GUI: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Network_Manager_GUI Pass. Sorry don’t know enough about this to comment. -- Feature roadmap/Document and improve default network connection: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Document_and_improve_default_network_connection Well, Sugar is much better auto-connecting quickly,correctly to an AP as the whole Mesh hunt run around is not currently supported. But, sorry, not sure how much else listed here has been tweaked. -- Feature roadmap/802.1x support: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/802.1x_support Pass. -- Feature roadmap/Full IPv6 support: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Full_IPv6_support Pass. Maybe we picked up improvements due to F11 and F12? -- Feature roadmap/XO as internet gateway (formerly called MPP): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/XO_as_internet_gateway_%28formerly_called_MPP%29 Hmmmm. I seem to remember reading the Tomeu’s new ad-hoc 0.86 support allows internet sharing, but have not discovered this myself yet during testing, so likely ignore me. I understand MPP can be enabled manually, but is disabled by default due to wireless bandwidth saturation issues. -- Feature roadmap/"Asynchronous internet": http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/%22Asynchronous_internet%22 Not much progress, Lucian’s GSOC Webified work may help a little here. -- Feature roadmap/Reliable access to encrypted APs: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Reliable_access_to_encrypted_APs Better I think, but likely not ‘the best’. The joys of working with poor wireless security specs. -- Feature roadmap/Printing support: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Printing_support Vamsi’s GSOC Printer support covers this I think http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Print_Support though not sure when it will land (USB and server support via Moodle). -- Feature roadmap/Debug tool: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Debug_tool Hmmm... “Diagnostic USB stick which analyzes and reports back detailed status.” A some what open ended feature request. Pass. Sorry don’t know enough about this, though Sebastian has been pushing on smolt for semi-automated hardware feedback – but I guess this feature was a request for some ‘Sugar’ or ‘Fedora’ failure case detection? -- Feature roadmap/Backup to Internet: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Backup_to_Internet Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status, though it does seem to be actively worked on (SoaS backup to a school server seems particularly active topic). -- Feature roadmap/Universal view-source: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Universal_view-source Done, perhaps some custom binary file types the source viewer doesn’t display yet, but source & syntax high-lighting is all looking lovely and shiny. Discussion moved on a long time ago (almost a year?) to source code search, universal edit-source and versioning. Along with source view for Sugar code its self. -- Feature roadmap/Developers Center web site: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Developers_Center_web_site Done. See Sugar Labs wiki and infrastructure. -- Feature roadmap/System clock: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/System_clock “Must have a clock on the XO” I’ve been running Martin Dengler’s frame device clock for a while. It’s a bit visuallu large (i.e. device non- square icon) and doesn’t have an analogue mode, but any deployment can choose to add it to their builds, no questions asked, it's written as a Sugar 'extension'. -- Feature roadmap/Library and bundle updates: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Library_and_bundle_updates Again... Long piece of wet string topic. Lot’s of discussion, Aleksey has some great universal bundle proposals, but they’ve now been pushed back to 0.88 due to lack of support and worries of stability (due to development/QA time). -- Feature roadmap/Caps lock option: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Caps_lock_option Lack of a Caps lock key is a major feature, but lack of a global Caps lock option (uppercase display of all text) is a missing feature. Walter hoped to pick this up for 0.86, but apologised for letting it slip to 0.88. -- Feature roadmap/Fully comply with GPLv3: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Fully_comply_with_GPLv3 Someone phone the lawyers! No seriously, report any missing legal asci and get it actioned. Developers know it’s (annoyingly) important even if fixing bugs, making things work, and adding new features are foremost in our minds. -- Feature roadmap/Screen zoom: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Screen_zoom No specific progress. But with Metacity in 0.86, I’m sure you can run any old screen zooming software you care too. Smart, clever Sugar UI integration will need to be for another day. -- Feature roadmap/General UI sluggishness: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/General_UI_sluggishness Again, more wet string but a laudable goal. For non-XO HW I believe compositing is now enabled by default. Metacity is better supported but I’ve seen no ‘better/worse’ response measurements for it (though allegedly it does eat more memory than Matchbox did, so that’s not a great sign). Lot’s of bug fixes and design clean-up, but it’d take some focused QA time to see if there are real measurable UI changes on average, and you need to argue that against the improved feature set. FWIW, I at least haven’t noticed a degradation in XO performance. But this is a ‘needs testing’ item. -- Feature roadmap/Faster task switching: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Faster_task_switching Duplicate. See above. -- Feature roadmap/Faster activity launch and save: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Faster_activity_launch_and_save Duplicate. See above. -- Feature roadmap/Shutdown menu: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Shutdown_menu Paul Foxes powerd see current F11-on-XO1 implements this, best I can tell. -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/No power regressions: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/No_power_regressions OK, so not just XO HW, but that’s the intended regression case here. Paul Fox has done some wonderful stuff in powerd (XO, only is my understanding), seemingly much more than in previous OLPC builds, you can see it in action on F11-on-XO1. Though there is still active discussion if OLPC will be shipping it in their builds. -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Improved battery life: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Improved_battery_life Again not just XO HW but that is the assumption given Sugar was not reliably available elsewhere at the time. Duplicate, see above. Though this does include a long shopping list touching just about every part of HW, device driver level, screen, network, etc, etc you could possibly try to mention. -- Feature roadmap/Clipboard: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Clipboard Hmmm, all information about this appears to have been purged from the wiki. Must have been real good stuff ;-) FWIW: The Clipboard does now show a preview of text you clipped making life easier if you have a bunch of clippings in use. -- Feature roadmap/Memory pressure: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Memory_pressure Both 0.84 and 0.86 have introduced UI changes to improve reported causes of memory pressure. The former implemented a home view that resumes by default and so aid as a switch to current instances rather than create new instances one after another. The latter implements the new tool bar design that had a primary goal of always keeping the “Stop” toolbar button visible so that folks didn’t get lost and could stop existing activities clearly at all times. Though still no low level resolution, once you stray into the woods Fangorn. -- Feature roadmap/Journal never loses work: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Journal_never_loses_work Activities improve all the time... And Tomeu did a top notch job on the robust Journal re-implementation in 0.84. Unfortunately most deployments still don’t have it and failures are from ~year + old software :-( -- XS Blueprints:Datastore Simple Backup and Restore: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Blueprints:Datastore_Simple_Backup_and_Restore I haven’t seen this in action, but I understand this is available and has been for some time (Martin can you comment?). -- Feature roadmap/Image customization: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Image_customization SoaS (distro) has re-raised many of these cases (random cloning of already booted and hand hacked sticks has caused much QA traffic). Many point seem more pertinent a question for the base OS distros, and not Sugar, which seems pretty flexible in how it is customisable. -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Image signing key delegation: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Image_signing_key_delegation Done I think. And future XO-1.5 HW is unsigned by default as I understand it. -- Feature roadmap/Activation lease security: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Activation_lease_security Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status, though Martin seem to be actively working on such stuff. -- Feature roadmap/Theft reporting: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Theft_reporting Duplicate. Pass, same as above. -- Feature roadmap/Activation via wireless: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Activation_via_wireless Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status, though I do remember reading about many such items being worked on (Martin again I think). -- Feature roadmap/XO monitoring: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/XO_monitoring Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status, some of this may be possible now via the XS and client strings reported by Browse (linked to activity.SL.org and XS registration processes). Also plenty of discussion regarding the benefits and drawback of ‘assessment’ based on stat collection. -- Feature roadmap/GUI OS updates: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/GUI_OS_updates Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status, though there is ongoing work now that the update control panel had been picked up as part of Sugar – mainly related to supporting the activities.sugarlabs.org infrastructure. Full OS updates still seem a fairly open question. -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Faster imaging: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Faster_imaging For the XO, can I just say Nand Blaster, lightning fast, robust, and dead simple to use! All hail The Mitch! -- Feature roadmap/Improved antitheft mechanisms: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Improved_antitheft_mechanisms Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status. Likely see Martin re: above as well as he’s been working here recently. -- Feature roadmap/Security and isolation work: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Security_and_isolation_work Pass. Embarrassed to say I don’t know enough to comment on status. Rainbow had fallen out of Sugar for a while, but I understand much of the underlying work is now back in place. This is currently more an area of regression than improvement. -- Feature roadmap/Scalable server-based presence: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Scalable_server-based_presence Long piece of wet string, again, work progresses... SoaS team have recently been pushing on the server side to try and establish the weak points. Gadget is implemented, but as yet no GUI for it on the Sugar side. -- Feature roadmap/School server push of XO images: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/School_server_push_of_XO_images Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status. -- Feature roadmap/Automatically recognize XO on restore page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Automatically_recognize_XO_on_restore_page Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status. Regards, --Gary P.S. Wow, you made it down the page! I fibbed about the cold beer, sorry, I needed it myself about two and a half pages back. _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep