Week of 01/07
Hi, Not sure if I can make the meeting today - moving into a new house, depends if internet is already up and running. Fixed Sugar’s HTTP file transfer collaboration mechanism which stopped working with the move to Python 2.7 (#10906) Continued painful debugging of the libertas driver hang (#10969) Fixed a bug where the boot partition was not mounted on boot after activation (#11018) 11.2.0 release work and testing 11 of the XO-1 and XO-1.5 power management kernel patches that I was previously working on were accepted by Andrew Morton, one step closer to them being applied upstream Took a couple of steps further on the SD/MMC runtime power management front in the upstream kernel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Content Proposal, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
There is also a series of recordings in about 35 languages, of the declaration by Librivox: http://librivox.org/universal-declaration-of-human-rights-by-united-nations-volume-02/ ---Seth On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.comwrote: I've been downloading to get materials locally (size estimates, etc.). One thought that occurs to me is to leverage the Region field they display on the website to create a handful of bundles (say 5-7 variants). See attached spreadsheet. This overcomes individual language tracking and puts a grouping of indigenous languages together by region (e.g. numerous African and South American indigenous languages shared across national boundaries). A small handful of bundles would be easier to manage manually in the build process. All bundles could be sent to school server where available. The only overhead it should add would be the concept of creating an index page with links to each individual language, simple enough HTML to build as long as local storage directory is predictable. cjl On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote: +100 I like the idea of include the UDHR and the idea of a e-Rosetta. The size is not a problem, I have tried with spanish: The pdf size is 186K, the html is 38K, but we can clean it and have a html version of 14K (ziped is 5K) We can start with a content bundle (.xol) We can do a better job with the content bundles we include. Almost all are from Wikibooks Junior http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior but we continue including the same books from may be 2007. Gonzalo On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com wrote: Dear OLPC developers, I would like to propose including the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in the content bundles provided in the 11.2.0 libraries. http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml It is translated into over 400 languages (found here) http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/SearchByLang.aspx Many deployments are apparently interested in English language instruction and I believe that distributing English and local language copies of the UDHR together not only provides an opportunity for a Rosetta Stone type pairing of texts, but it might also serve as a launching point for discussions in civics or social studies classes. I have sent an e-mail to the Secretary of the Publication Board, United Nations to specifically ask about any restrictions they might impose on electronic redistribution of the UDHR text and translations downloaded from their site. However, given the following quote from the UHDR website, the intended use seems entirely consistent with the intent of the UN in publishing the UHDR. On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories. Article 26 is of particular relevance to OLPC's efforts. Assuming there is consensus on pedagogical value and a clear answer on the copyright status of the UDHR, the remaining question is how to go about packaging this content for OLPC distributions. The material downloads primarily as PDF files. I haven't checked them all, but some are text selectable composited PDFs, some may be scanned image PDFs, and a few are possibly available as HTML. I would like to do as little rework as possible on packaging these (in part to get them ready in time for the 11.2.0 release), so I am inclined to stick with the 8 page PDF as downloaded. One possibility would be to include all of the languages, but this seems wasteful of precious space. I am not aware of any storage structure currently available for content management by language in the way that Pootle handles strings and the individual languages in the /po directory in git. I'm unsure of how this could be managed with the build process to pick up the appropriate localized version of the UDHR. Let's be clear that I am not really a developer, so I would be happy to see someone take this idea and run with it. I am more than willing to collaborate with anyone on bringing this to fruition, but I probably can't pull it off all by myself without some assistance (at least advice and feedback on appropriate technical issues). cjl ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
11.2.0 release candidate 2 (build 871) released
Hi, We're pleased to announce our second release candidate of our new 11.2.0 software release. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0 Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and save to USB disks: http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/871/ http://download.laptop.org/xo-1.5/os/candidate/871/ This is a signed release candidate that can be installed on all XOs, even those with security enabled. We're looking for testing and feedback on all aspects of the system. Thanks for any help you can offer, and for all the feedback that has been received already. Our scheduled release date is July 18th. Since release candidate 1 (build 870) we have fixed the following issues: Various collaboration-related bugs were fixed. Collaboration in Read and ImageViewer is now working again. In the neighborhood view, users correctly cluster around shared activities again, and connecting to gabble no longer results in duplication of your own buddy icon. Journal fixes include less needless rescanning and the ability to modify file information on external disks. FotoToon is now a favorite activity by default. XO-1.5 graphics rendering bugs could be seen sometimes in Moon and Browse - now fixed. XO-1.5 laptops using the original XO-1 ALPS keyboard are now usable again. The XO-1.5 boot partition is now correctly mounted after boots where activation happens. The blank screen during XO-1 boot no longer happens. Closed tickets: #10851 mysterious black monolith on the moon #10880 Display corruption in Firefox displaying a png #11015 Barbershop-style Video corruption on XO-1.5 in 11.2.0 #10941 Clock, Abacus, HelloWorld, Fototoon not favorite #11016 ALPS keyboard on XO-1.5 outputs gibberish in OFW Linux #11018 /bootpart not mounted after activation #11019 black screen during XO-1 boot #10749 salut: mission control account information is not updated when changing the nick name #10965 When connected to school server and using gabble buddy is drawn twice in home view #10675 Shared activity users do not get clustered around activities they are collaborating in #10840 Entry not colored when started from external device (or first copied from device) #10717 Journal: Can not change entry information on external device #10841 Journal: Rescan of external device view when dragging an image #10817 friendstray does represent buddies of a shared activity we have not joined yet #10906 Transfer files in sharing from one to many is broken SL#2880 Use the same wording for the filesize of an entry without a file SL#2926 Journal detail view: sync updates of elements Thanks! Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: 11.2.0 release candidate 2 (build 871) released
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, We're pleased to announce our second release candidate of our new 11.2.0 software release. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0 Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and save to USB disks: http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/871/ http://download.laptop.org/xo-1.5/os/candidate/871/ This is a signed release candidate that can be installed on all XOs, even those with security enabled. We're looking for testing and feedback on all aspects of the system. Thanks for any help you can offer, and for all the feedback that has been received already. Our scheduled release date is July 18th. Since release candidate 1 (build 870) we have fixed the following issues: Various collaboration-related bugs were fixed. Collaboration in Read and ImageViewer is now working again. In the neighborhood view, users correctly cluster around shared activities again, and connecting to gabble no longer results in duplication of your own buddy icon. Journal fixes include less needless rescanning and the ability to modify file information on external disks. FotoToon is now a favorite activity by default. XO-1.5 graphics rendering bugs could be seen sometimes in Moon and Browse - now fixed. XO-1.5 laptops using the original XO-1 ALPS keyboard are now usable again. The XO-1.5 boot partition is now correctly mounted after boots where activation happens. The blank screen during XO-1 boot no longer happens. Closed tickets: #10851 mysterious black monolith on the moon #10880 Display corruption in Firefox displaying a png #11015 Barbershop-style Video corruption on XO-1.5 in 11.2.0 #10941 Clock, Abacus, HelloWorld, Fototoon not favorite #11016 ALPS keyboard on XO-1.5 outputs gibberish in OFW Linux #11018 /bootpart not mounted after activation #11019 black screen during XO-1 boot #10749 salut: mission control account information is not updated when changing the nick name #10965 When connected to school server and using gabble buddy is drawn twice in home view #10675 Shared activity users do not get clustered around activities they are collaborating in #10840 Entry not colored when started from external device (or first copied from device) #10717 Journal: Can not change entry information on external device #10841 Journal: Rescan of external device view when dragging an image #10817 friendstray does represent buddies of a shared activity we have not joined yet #10906 Transfer files in sharing from one to many is broken SL#2880 Use the same wording for the filesize of an entry without a file SL#2926 Journal detail view: sync updates of elements Did you pull in Abacus v20, which has a fix to SL#2933: defect: Beads can fall off abacus? -walter Thanks! Daniel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [Testing] 11.2.0 release candidate 2 (build 871) released
Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, We're pleased to announce our second release candidate of our new 11.2.0 software release. Information and installation instructions can be found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/11.2.0 Quick links for those who know which files need to be grabbed and save to USB disks: http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/candidate/871/ http://download.laptop.org/xo-1.5/os/candidate/871/ This is a signed release candidate that can be installed on all XOs, even those with security enabled. We're looking for testing and feedback on all aspects of the system. Thanks for any help you can offer, and for all the feedback that has been received already. ==testing os871 on unlocked G1G1 XO-1== 07/01/2011 reflashed with USB ===About my Computer=== Build 871 sugar 0.92.2 firmware q2e45 wireless firmware 5.110.22.p23 *note very slow response *'''Activities only start on second try''' (get failed to start on first try) : (This may be related to dbus timeout error seen in log in Soasv4 and v5) : it takes about 15 seconds for a response.Including exiting an activity. ===Testing=== *Connect to Apple Network Airport Extreme AP WEP ASCII *Download IRC-10.xo from Browse Home (OLPC Activity Library/Activities -ASLO?) :connects fine(on second try) to #sugar and #sugar-es(Default) *Connected to Jabber.sugarlabs.org :only see shared activities NO Avitars ::This may be a known bug in sugar 0.92.2 where the jabber gets overloaded with present and past Avitars from users. (I have seen 200 on screen) eventually only shared activities are displayed http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2845 http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2897 :::This does not occur in sugar 0.88.1 ===Activities=== no updates found :Activity Group:G1G1 Lite Activities for OLPC OS 11.2 : Note unable to test activities due to the long delay on exit and having to start activity 2 times selinux=0 and setenforce=0 tried but had no effect on speed ;key: *=not a favorite speak 25 tamtamjam 56 tamtamedit 55 measure 32 image viewer 17* write 74 paint 34 moon 12 help 12 clock 6 chat 70 tamtamsynthlab 55* scratch 19 memorize 16 ruler 8 jukebox 21* distance 22 record 92 implode 10 terminal 31 abacus 19 pippy 40 maze 9 tamtammini 58 calculate 37 etoys 113 helloworld 2 log 24 fototoon 7 read 89 turtle art 107 browse 122.2 '''irc-10.xo''' (downloaded) Tom Gilliard satellit Our scheduled release date is July 18th. Since release candidate 1 (build 870) we have fixed the following issues: Various collaboration-related bugs were fixed. Collaboration in Read and ImageViewer is now working again. In the neighborhood view, users correctly cluster around shared activities again, and connecting to gabble no longer results in duplication of your own buddy icon. Journal fixes include less needless rescanning and the ability to modify file information on external disks. FotoToon is now a favorite activity by default. XO-1.5 graphics rendering bugs could be seen sometimes in Moon and Browse - now fixed. XO-1.5 laptops using the original XO-1 ALPS keyboard are now usable again. The XO-1.5 boot partition is now correctly mounted after boots where activation happens. The blank screen during XO-1 boot no longer happens. Closed tickets: #10851 mysterious black monolith on the moon #10880 Display corruption in Firefox displaying a png #11015 Barbershop-style Video corruption on XO-1.5 in 11.2.0 #10941 Clock, Abacus, HelloWorld, Fototoon not favorite #11016 ALPS keyboard on XO-1.5 outputs gibberish in OFW Linux #11018 /bootpart not mounted after activation #11019 black screen during XO-1 boot #10749 salut: mission control account information is not updated when changing the nick name #10965 When connected to school server and using gabble buddy is drawn twice in home view #10675 Shared activity users do not get clustered around activities they are collaborating in #10840 Entry not colored when started from external device (or first copied from device) #10717 Journal: Can not change entry information on external device #10841 Journal: Rescan of external device view when dragging an image #10817 friendstray does represent buddies of a shared activity we have not joined yet #10906 Transfer files in sharing from one to many is broken SL#2880 Use the same wording for the filesize of an entry without a file SL#2926 Journal detail view: sync updates of elements Thanks! Daniel ___ Testing mailing list test...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Build 871
DSD: 1) Cant seem to connect to the download directories. Main one yes, the subdirectories with the XO1 and XO1-5 stuff, nope. 2) Meanwhile, I've hooked the serial adapter up onto an XO with a fresh 870, and tried to boot with the USB2VGA adapter plugged in. Watched the messages stream by, nothing seemed amiss. Main screen still sticks at the one dot, no life out the adapter. However, hitting enter on the console session attached to the serial adapter does bring up a bash prompt, so it would appeaqr the system isn't actually 'hung' . So far all I've entered is 'reboot'. That works :-) Do you want me to try those same mod commands you had me previously try at the terminal prompt? Happy Canada Day, KG ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [OLPC-AU] OLPC-AU revised release candidate
Hi all: Please do not use RC1, there was a typo that broke some the customizations in the build. If you downloaded it I'm sorry for wasting your bandwidth, there is a new image on the way soon[1]. There is one additional feature to be tested: * Firefox is remembering passwords [801] Thanks for testing Jerry [1]http://build.laptop.org.au/xo/10.1.3/xo-1.5/RC2/ On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 12:39 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: The release notes, including links to the changes, is online at https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au/wiki/1013-au3_release_notes Some things that have changed (with their issues numbers in our system) that we need testing are: * flashing is faster with our sparse build [#594] * Browse activity [#654] * Speak activity with english_rp voice [#718] * Screencast activity [#692] * gnome-screenshot in GNOME [#563] * gtk-recordmysesktop in GNOME [#564] * camorama in GNOME [#558] * Firefox now loads with the OLPC Library as the home page [#555] Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au A: G.P.O. Box 731 Sydney, NSW 2001 W: www.laptop.org.au On 1 July 2011 08:43, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi All: This is to announce that we may have a Release Candidate with the latest OLPC-AU build for the XO-1.5 featuring sparse file support[1], is now available for testing[2]. This build has q3a65 firmware in the payload, so you might get an upgrade if your firmware is not up to that level. The upload is in progress, please be patient. Thanks for testing, Jerry [1]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Quozl/fs-update-skip-unused-blocks [2]http://build.laptop.org.au/xo/10.1.3/xo-1.5/RC1 ___ olpc mailing list o...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc ___ OLPC-AU mailing list olpc...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-au ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Controlling Wi-Fi radio 'nap-time' reaps big power savings
Saw this on Slashdot. Wonder if it will impact power usage on XOs... http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/070111-duke-wifi.html?hpg1=bn cheers, Sameer ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: [OLPC-AU] OLPC-AU revised release candidate
Sorry we could not test this as it wasn't available in time this morning. Tabitha On Jul 2, 2011 7:53 AM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi all: Please do not use RC1, there was a typo that broke some the customizations in the build. If you downloaded it I'm sorry for wasting your bandwidth, there is a new image on the way soon[1]. There is one additional feature to be tested: * Firefox is remembering passwords [801] Thanks for testing Jerry [1]http://build.laptop.org.au/xo/10.1.3/xo-1.5/RC2/ On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 12:39 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: The release notes, including links to the changes, is online at https://dev.laptop.org.au/projects/xo-au/wiki/1013-au3_release_notes Some things that have changed (with their issues numbers in our system) that we need testing are: * flashing is faster with our sparse build [#594] * Browse activity [#654] * Speak activity with english_rp voice [#718] * Screencast activity [#692] * gnome-screenshot in GNOME [#563] * gtk-recordmysesktop in GNOME [#564] * camorama in GNOME [#558] * Firefox now loads with the OLPC Library as the home page [#555] Thanks, Sridhar Sridhar Dhanapalan Technical Manager One Laptop per Child Australia M: +61 425 239 701 E: srid...@laptop.org.au A: G.P.O. Box 731 Sydney, NSW 2001 W: www.laptop.org.au On 1 July 2011 08:43, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote: Hi All: This is to announce that we may have a Release Candidate with the latest OLPC-AU build for the XO-1.5 featuring sparse file support[1], is now available for testing[2]. This build has q3a65 firmware in the payload, so you might get an upgrade if your firmware is not up to that level. The upload is in progress, please be patient. Thanks for testing, Jerry [1]http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Quozl/fs-update-skip-unused-blocks [2]http://build.laptop.org.au/xo/10.1.3/xo-1.5/RC1 ___ olpc mailing list o...@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/olpc ___ OLPC-AU mailing list olpc...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-au ___ OLPC-AU mailing list olpc...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-au ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
