Greg Smith's Weekly Report
Overview: We are collecting all well formed ideas for future development at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap Add your suggestions to that page. In the near future we will start prioritizing them and choosing the target set for inclusion in the next release, 9.1.0. Product management and support now have regular calls and a tight synchronization with the technical teams in Uruguay and Peru. We are working with them to qualify 8.2 for their deployments and to track their feature requests for future releases. The agenda for a technical conference in January is being set at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2. The first review of all proposals should be done by next week. Next, we will create detailed materials and pick lead presenters for each session. ** User links: Link of the week (Spanish): http://ceibalflorida.blogspot.com/search/label/etoys Shows eToys presentations built in Uruguay. See also the Blogósfera link on the right. Blog posts by XOs in Uruguay have taken off again in the last month! Link of the week (English): http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/321 US University-style evaluation of the XO deployment in Nepal. * Goals and to do list. Status of last weeks goals: 1 - Continue prioritization of January Mini-conference proposals and start filling in next level of detail for each. GS - Underway. Meeting every Wed. at 2PM US ET on IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting to review proposals. 2 - Update roadmap page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap Follow up with deployments to verify priorities. Get a second level of detail from deployments on what they need. GS - Partially done. Focusing on the Activation Lease Security: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Activation_lease_security Now drilling down on top priorities for largest deployments. Everyone, please add your feature ideas. Each should have a Requirement Definition, some software design comments (AKA Specification), target users and engineering or product management owners. Any of the above can be URLs to web pages, Trac IDs, or e-mail threads. Put me down as interim owner if no one else is available. 3 - Start writing detailed use cases, complete ideas for using XO/XS (probably a requirements definition for supporting learning projects), and presentations for mini-conference. GS - Not done. Top priority is Asynchronous collaboration (AKA multi-user projects) http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Asynchronous_collaboration Goals for next week: 1 - Finish first review of January mini-conference proposals. Transition conference work to follow up and status only. Add agenda items to weekly Future Feature planning meeting (Wed. at 2PM US ET on IRC freenode.net #olpc-meeting) to prioritize full feature roadmap and decide how we will pick 9.1.0 target features. 2 - Update roadmap page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap Follow up with deployments to verify priorities. Get a second level of detail from deployments on what they need. 3 - Start writing detailed use cases, complete ideas for using XO/XS (probably a requirements definition for supporting learning projects), and presentations for mini-conference. * Other: Inspired by Greg D's recent comments on creating team, I'm thinking of starting a roadmap team which will work on the Feature roadmap page and strategy. We already have a weekly meeting, minutes and action items. All we need now is a wiki page and a better todo list! I'll send out more details and URLs on that soon. Questions and comments welcome. Thanks, Greg S ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Greg Smith's Weekly Report, week ending 10/17
Greg's User Feedback URL of the Week (English): 8.2.0 question, posted and resolved by the community in the same day! http://en.forum.laptop.org/viewtopic.php?f=6t=160964sid=775110c2027abed37bc769241c829a08 Greg's User Feedback URL of the Week (Spanish): Public Moodle with Forums created and used by teachers in Peru since 2006. http://www.innovavirtual.org/moodleperu/ Bonus URL courtesy of Seth. Recent blog posts about 8.2.0: http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=enq=olpc+8.2.0 * Status of last weeks goals: 1 - Send out 8.2 announcement e-mail to public lists and technical leads at deployments. GS - Done! 2 - Update and restructure 9.1 page. Continue to engage learning team, Ed, engineering and others to come up with use cases and high level strategic plans which can motivate development over the course of multiple releases. GS - Mostly not done. Held first 9.1 meeting and sent out invite for conference in November. Continued discussions with learning and operations. 3 - Join more sugar and other design meetings. I want to add more motivation and customer side info to features planned. Also want to communicate better what work is essentially underway and being worked on now. Lastly want to write more detailed requirements and see if I can get an engineer to write at least one full design document (best chance is design for activation/security management in response to: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0#Activation_lease_security_feature) GS - Partially done. Joined Journal meeting but didn't make any sugar meetings. No design proposals (AKA functional specifications) received yet. May make progress if Chris implements a spec. writing tool... 4 - Update deployments page with the latest status details. GS - Not done. 5 - Engage more users to understand their needs. Focus especially on Sur list and country technical leads (top targets: Peru, Uruguay, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Haiti). GS - Partially done. Debriefed Brian on his Rwanda trip. Talked with Peru leads on IRC and e-mail. Kept up with torrent of Sur list e-mails and talked to Uruguay contacts. * Goals for next week: 1 - Update and rename 9.1.0 page. Prioritize and organize requirements. Flesh out two more requirement definitions. 2 - Work on agenda for miniconference. Review proposals, submit a few of my own, and update conference page. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2 3 - Meet with deployment teams and learning teams. Write use cases and collect more user input. 4 - Update deployments page. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments Thanks, Greg S ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Greg Smith's Weekly Report for 9/29 to 10/3
New Feature of the Weekly Report. Greg's User Feedback URL of the Week (English): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Academic_papers#Evaluation_of_the_Teaching_Matters_One_Laptop_Per_Child_.28XO.29_Pilot_at_Kappa_I_V This is a great evaluation of an XO pilot in a NYC school. Greg's User Feedback URL of the Week (Spanish): http://www.mediagala.com/rap/foro/ New forum for volunteers and teachers out of Uruguay. ** Status of last weeks goals: 1 - Get 8.2 to manufacturing. Catch up on bug triage. GS - Done! 8.2-767 has gone to Quanta for manufacturing test. Barring any surprises 8.2.0 will be manufactured on new XOs starting Monday October 13. 2 - Finish 8.2 Release notes and get final review of them from engineering. GS - Done. Final draft Release notes is ready. A short and sweet version is at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.0 with links from there to the detailed version at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.0-detailed-version Last call for edits and final sign off needed from management and engineering. 3 - Finalize blurb used to promote the release and start sending it out to internal lists. Write more generally usable Release message. GS - Not done. Last weeks blurb is the current best version. 4 - Update deployments page and releases page. GS - Partially done. Deployments page (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Deployments) updated with the XOs delivered, shipped, and ordered. Status section needs more updating and timeline needs editing/bug fixing. No changes to Releases page (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Releases) this week. 5 - Post more detailed 8.2.1 page and restructure 9.1 page. GS - Partially done. Some minor edits to 9.1 page. 8.2.1 page removed and link to unscheduled release process page left. If/when we hear a specific blocking issue for a deployment we will start filling it out again. ** Goals for next week: 1 - Get sign off and incorporate final edits on 8.2 release notes. 2 - Write 8.2 availability announcement e-mail. Update wiki home page to link to 8.2. Should be in place for posting on or before Monday 10/13. 3 - Start weekly 9.1 meetings. Do major restructuring of 9.1 page. Start planning in person 9.1 conference. Thanks, Greg S ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 :-) One glass is inefficient. You'll lose all the fizz if you don't finish the rest. Or, just share! :-) -- Sameer ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Greg Smith's Weekly Report
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
Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:47 AM, S Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey activity maintainers, I shrank the wasteful junky layout slightly and got rid of all the warning triangles for empty values. If you see any yellow triangles after updating your activity page, please let me know. thanks a lot, the wiki has been looking pretty sharp these days :) bobby The Template:Activity_page could omit altogether table rows that have no value. That would shrink it further but you'd lose the reminder to fill in Related projects, Contributors, etc. Speak up if you want empty rows omitted. Gary C Martin wrote: I think the main weird oddity I see now is that every activity page now using the new for has two blocks of apparently duplicate data showing, very confusing. There's a nicely formatted table at the very bottom (Facts about Moon), That's the factbox you see on pages with semantic info. (Since it repeats info that's annotated somewhere else on the page, the newer version of Semantic MediaWiki hides it by default.) but before it is a great long ~page screed of the same data in a wasteful junky layout (Activity Summary). -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)
Hey activity maintainers, I shrank the wasteful junky layout slightly and got rid of all the warning triangles for empty values. If you see any yellow triangles after updating your activity page, please let me know. The Template:Activity_page could omit altogether table rows that have no value. That would shrink it further but you'd lose the reminder to fill in Related projects, Contributors, etc. Speak up if you want empty rows omitted. Gary C Martin wrote: I think the main weird oddity I see now is that every activity page now using the new for has two blocks of apparently duplicate data showing, very confusing. There's a nicely formatted table at the very bottom (Facts about Moon), That's the factbox you see on pages with semantic info. (Since it repeats info that's annotated somewhere else on the page, the newer version of Semantic MediaWiki hides it by default.) but before it is a great long ~page screed of the same data in a wasteful junky layout (Activity Summary). -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)
So far the semantic form for activities is very rough in actual data-points and very rough in layout. On the actual form, I think that there needs to be some small changes; a drop down for languages, ability to add wiki-pages in certain fields instead of urls, etc. On the form's display, it would be possible to wrap the current data into a box on the right hand side of the page, much like the current Activities box. I will try to describe what I would like to see more clearly on the wiki-gang list and try to implement it (if I can). On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On 15 Sep 2008, at 23:58, Seth Woodworth wrote: Gary, the wiki is generally discussed on the library list, and on the new wiki-gang(@lists.l.o) list. That may be why you missed information about the implementation of SMW. Thanks Seth, I'm still contemplating the changes (+ links as per your previous email). Just to be clear, I do like the move direction, I'm just trying to work out if it's now 'done' and if I (and other activity) developers should now go back and spend time revisiting and revising their activity wiki pages to comply. I think the main weird oddity I see now is that every activity page now using the new for has two blocks of apparently duplicate data showing, very confusing. There's a nicely formatted table at the very bottom (Facts about Moon), but before it is a great long ~page screed of the same data in a wasteful junky layout (Activity Summary). I initially thought my browser was showing some hidden or accidental field of junk data, but Firefox shows it too. --Gary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)
Am 16.09.2008 um 22:27 schrieb Seth Woodworth: So far the semantic form for activities is very rough in actual data- points and very rough in layout. On the actual form, I think that there needs to be some small changes; a drop down for languages, ability to add wiki-pages in certain fields instead of urls, etc. On the form's display, it would be possible to wrap the current data into a box on the right hand side of the page, much like the current Activities box. I will try to describe what I would like to see more clearly on the wiki-gang list and try to implement it (if I can). As an activity author I'd love to have a single place to edit when a new release is made. The box appearing on the Activities page should be automatically created from the the activity's page, if you know what I mean. I made an approximation of this for the X activity (inspired by the small boxes on top of the Activities page): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X_Activity which includes the activity box at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/X that is also referenced in the Activities page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#Other (hehe, wouldn't http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#X be a nicer link? No way to do that I fear) - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)
Am 16.09.2008 um 23:14 schrieb Walter Bender: You can add anchors to pages in the wiki, so you could do Activities#X My wiki-fu is not strong enough ... and I do not see anchors mentioned on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Help:Editing - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)
On 16 Sep 2008, at 21:54, Bert Freudenberg wrote: As an activity author I'd love to have a single place to edit when a new release is made. The box appearing on the Activities page should be automatically created from the the activity's page, if you know what I mean. I made an approximation of this for the X activity (inspired by the small boxes on top of the Activities page): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X_Activity which includes the activity box at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/X that is also referenced in the Activities page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#Other Oooh. Nice idea using wiki includes! I do like. Anyone see any potentially nasty issues here? Control Panel software update happy with it? How about we do a sweep of all the Activity pages and use the same recipe? Objections? --Gary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)
Actually, even more interestingly you could update data in any one of these forms, and then call that data in a different format on the [[Activities]] page, the [[/Activities/G1G1]] page, or even in another language. Setting that the Property:LatestVersion for the page [[Help_(activity)]] can be aggregated on another page to fill in a field... Let me try to find a good example... On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Am 16.09.2008 um 22:27 schrieb Seth Woodworth: So far the semantic form for activities is very rough in actual data-points and very rough in layout. On the actual form, I think that there needs to be some small changes; a drop down for languages, ability to add wiki-pages in certain fields instead of urls, etc. On the form's display, it would be possible to wrap the current data into a box on the right hand side of the page, much like the current Activities box. I will try to describe what I would like to see more clearly on the wiki-gang list and try to implement it (if I can). As an activity author I'd love to have a single place to edit when a new release is made. The box appearing on the Activities page should be automatically created from the the activity's page, if you know what I mean. I made an approximation of this for the X activity (inspired by the small boxes on top of the Activities page): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/X_Activity which includes the activity box at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/X that is also referenced in the Activities page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#Other (hehe, wouldn't http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#X be a nicer link? No way to do that I fear) - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)
Am 16.09.2008 um 22:54 schrieb Bert Freudenberg: (hehe, wouldn't http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities#X be a nicer link? No way to do that I fear) Oh, thanks to Walter this works now :) - Bert - ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
semantic black ops for Activities? (Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report)
Summary: What do you want from activity wiki pages? (reply here or add to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Semantic_MediaWiki#Activities ) A while ago Gary C Martin wrote: Any information on what the semantic wiki plan is/was all about? I never heard of any master plan, however people should note wiki pages that could or do use semantic annotations at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Semantic_MediaWiki. The SMW extension is basically annotating information in wiki pages so you can browse, query, and reuse it; a bit like categorizing pages on steroids. Also someone installed the Semantic Forms extension which builds on SMW so you can edit certain page data in a form. Seems to have been some black ops project inside OLPC with no public documentation Dick Cheney denied this secret black ops project run outside of normal channels, so it must exist! I noticed a few weeks back that my activity page had turned into some monster QA template page if I now try and edit it... I haven't worked on the activity templates and forms. I think user:Xavi added the OBX templates to activity pages a while back; recently user:Femslade added Activity_page and Activity_bundle templates that annotate similar info, and you can edit them in a form. I don't know if anything reuses info like http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Activity_version Greg Smith asked me: If we can edit activities page safely do you feel up to making some edits there... Maybe propose something on devel then we can approve and execute. Let me know if what we are looking for there is not clear. Sorry, I have no idea what people are looking for (Cheney keeps us all on a need-to-know basis, damn these freedom-destroying wikis with no congressional oversight!). My proposal would just be guesses, e.g.: * Unify the OBX templates and the semantic properties? * Unify the Creating_an_activity page and the new Form:Activity? * Automatically generate tables of activities? ** Replace (outdated?) Bundled/Core/Extra distinctions with a property? ** Display activity and versions compatible with a particular build? * Generate the Activity_microformat data for the pages that Software update parses (scary...)? Y'all can reply here, or edit http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Semantic_MediaWiki#Activities, or some other talk page in the wiki. Cheers, -- =S Page user:skierpage ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report
On 6 Sep 2008, at 06:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg, Thanks for fixing http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Joyride and make it reference the correct version of Develop. Tested it and software updater now downloads Develop V35. Now maybe people can start looking for valid bugs and give the developer useful feedback. Develop launches nicely in 8.2-759. I went ahead and updated the reference to Colors! to Colors! V4 and software updater successfully downloaded that it. I notice that the .xo bundle for Colors linked from http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities is still going to v3 even though v4 is listed on Colors own wiki page. Was just testing on the 759 stream and noticed it didn't pick-up the new version of Color (or Develop-35 for that matter) as the Control Panel (obviously) doesn't use the Activities/Joyride information. Installed both new versions manually using Browse (note that Colors doesn't respond to the stop icon in its activity tool bar, but you can use the keyboard shortcut alt-esc to get out). The architecture of the wiki activity group pages is interesting to say the list. Yea, I was hoping the whispers of semantic wiki stuff was going to help keep all the various wiki references in sync. Perhaps it's implementation is still incomplete? Any information on what the semantic wiki plan is/was all about? Seems to have been some black ops project inside OLPC with no public documentation (that I've stumbled over yet). I noticed a few weeks back that my activity page had turned into some monster QA template page if I now try and edit it... --Gary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report
On Sep 6, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: On 6 Sep 2008, at 06:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg, Thanks for fixing http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Joyride and make it reference the correct version of Develop. Tested it and software updater now downloads Develop V35. Now maybe people can start looking for valid bugs and give the developer useful feedback. Develop launches nicely in 8.2-759. I went ahead and updated the reference to Colors! to Colors! V4 and software updater successfully downloaded that it. I notice that the .xo bundle for Colors linked from http:// wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities is still going to v3 even though v4 is listed on Colors own wiki page. Was just testing on the 759 stream and noticed it didn't pick-up the new version of Color (or Develop-35 for that matter) as the Control Panel (obviously) doesn't use the Activities/Joyride information. The Software Update control has a Modify activity groups in the lower left. This control is revealed once the Refresh of software update completes. Click on this and the Group URL field is release. You can add or subtract groups here by supplying the URL. I discovered that the Group URLs are stored in the hidden file /home/ olpc/Activities/.groups Next time I perform an update from 656 I will have to remember to delete .groups and see what it gets populated with. Installed both new versions manually using Browse (note that Colors doesn't respond to the stop icon in its activity tool bar, but you can use the keyboard shortcut alt-esc to get out). How do we get the component activity-Colors! added to track? The architecture of the wiki activity group pages is interesting to say the list. Yea, I was hoping the whispers of semantic wiki stuff was going to help keep all the various wiki references in sync. Perhaps it's implementation is still incomplete? Any information on what the semantic wiki plan is/was all about? Seems to have been some black ops project inside OLPC with no public documentation (that I've stumbled over yet). I noticed a few weeks back that my activity page had turned into some monster QA template page if I now try and edit it... Yes curious mind are awaiting...Does any one know if it is possible to have field level help for the form pages? . --Gary ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Greg Smith's Weekly Report
Hi All, We write a weekly report for the OLPC management and employees. In order to keep the community involved, motivated and knowledgeable, Michael suggested we share it with this list. Its FYI but I'm open to help, comments or suggestions, as always. Thanks, Greg S ** Status against last weeks goals: 1 - Identify, triage and clarify 8.2 blocker bugs. GS - Done. Triaged all incoming bugs for 8.2. Helped get the 8.2 release down to a manageable set of blocking bugs which must be fixed. See: http://dev.laptop.org/report/28 As of this writing, there are only 9 left with the next action of Diagnose, Design or Code! 2 - Update 8.2 release notes GS - Made some progress with review of update instructions. Added text to all open bugs in preparation for final review: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.0#Notable_Open_Bugs_In_This_Release Also read and commented on the new manual which will be linked from release notes when ready. 3 - Update 9.1 page with more requirements. Re-check that all Peru input is in 9.1 page. Add Uruguay, Haiti, Rwanda, Birmingham and Mongolia requirements. GS - Done for Peru. Some Uruguay items in but not all. Not done for the rest. Also started engagement with sugar list re: their 0.84 which maps to 9.1. 4 - Prune outdated material off OLPC home page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki GS - Not done. 5 - Follow up on Cmap tools GS - Done. Proposed X windows wrapper activity. CMap developers will consider it and are looking in to the feasibility now. Goals for next week in priority order: - Identify, triage and clarify 8.2 blocker bugs. Help get to a well defined final release schedule. - Update 8.2 release notes - Write 8.2 marketing launch plan. To include lists, web sites and other ideas for getting the word out. Once done, this will sit on the shelf until the release is final. - Update 9.1 page with more requirements. Add Uruguay, Haiti, Rwanda, Birmingham, Mongolia, Ethiopia, others. Start writing strategy section and set schedule. - Find engineering lead for 8.2.1. If none is identified, start laying out the parameters anyway (e.g. date, target customers, goals, target bug fixes and featurettes, etc.). - Find a volunteer and partner to write Beta/Early Field Trial plan. The plan should get pre-release code in to real classes at target deployment countries for comment and review prior to 8.2.1 release. - Update deployments page with latest data, improve timeline and add timeline to releases page. - Prune outdated material off OLPC wiki home page. ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 11:55:33AM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: In order to keep the community involved, motivated and knowledgeable, Michael suggested we share it with this list. This a great suggestion and great practice. I hope we don't abuse the access. Thanks, Greg S Martin pgpSu0QFGvasS.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Re: Greg Smith's Weekly Report
Greg, Thanks for fixing http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Joyride and make it reference the correct version of Develop. Tested it and software updater now downloads Develop V35. Now maybe people can start looking for valid bugs and give the developer useful feedback. Develop launches nicely in 8.2-759. I went ahead and updated the reference to Colors! to Colors! V4 and software updater successfully downloaded that it. The architecture of the wiki activity group pages is interesting to say the list. Robert H. On Sep 5, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Greg Smith wrote: Hi Robert, Thanks for the info. We should probably do this on the list so others learn too if you don't mind. If you reply again, just add in devel. I edited the Joyride page (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/ Joyride) to point to the new Devel v35 I just updated the activity bundle value by copying and pasting it from the main activities page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities and I updated the version value to 35. Try running the SW updater again and let me know if that fetches the right one. If so, maybe we can close another bug! The policy on where the SW updater gets stuff is at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update Can you try to fix Colors too if you know where the right one is and how to edit its wiki page from those instructions? Scott, This could be an ongoing challenge if we have the SW updater coded to use our wiki. Its a little complicated to figure out what version you are using (e.g. Joyride, shipping, peru etc) then to determine where the SW updater is pulling from and then update the right page. Its solvable but needs a lot of communication and takes some time. I wonder if there is some semantic wiki solution here to change it once and have it update everywhere Also, we still need a way to post older versions of activities when they are not backward compatible (e.g. if develop 35 doesn't run on 656 or 708, we need to say that on the main page and post the one (e.g. v25) that does run on older releases somewhere). If we edit the main activities page, to include some more fields in the table will that be a problem for SW updater? Skierpage, If we can edit activities page safely do you feel up to making some edits there... Maybe propose something on devel then we can approve and execute. Let me know if what we are looking for there is not clear. BTW don't mean to give you all the hard problems, its just that you do great work so I try you first :-) Thanks, Greg S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding item 1. I came across http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7716 Develop doesn't launch (not a blocker) for which I provided a diagnoses. I left the ticket as Diagnose because I did not know were to move it to next as it did not seem to be a code problem but an infrastructure problem. Basically the wrong version of Develop is being fetched by software upgrade for joyride activities group. (Also there is a caveat for using it on old builds were a patch has to be applied to the journal). This is a low hanging bit of fruit that could easily be fixed if I knew the correct process for updating the file that gets fetched by software update. I have also noticed this problem with Colors! for the joyride activities group were an old version is being fetched instead of the latest. Late for work so will follow up later if you need more information.. Robert H. On Sep 5, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Greg Smith wrote: Hi All, We write a weekly report for the OLPC management and employees. In order to keep the community involved, motivated and knowledgeable, Michael suggested we share it with this list. Its FYI but I'm open to help, comments or suggestions, as always. Thanks, Greg S ** Status against last weeks goals: 1 - Identify, triage and clarify 8.2 blocker bugs. GS - Done. Triaged all incoming bugs for 8.2. Helped get the 8.2 release down to a manageable set of blocking bugs which must be fixed. See: http://dev.laptop.org/report/28 As of this writing, there are only 9 left with the next action of Diagnose, Design or Code! 2 - Update 8.2 release notes GS - Made some progress with review of update instructions. Added text to all open bugs in preparation for final review: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/ 8.2.0#Notable_Open_Bugs_In_This_Release Also read and commented on the new manual which will be linked from release notes when ready. 3 - Update 9.1 page with more requirements. Re-check that all Peru input is in 9.1 page. Add Uruguay, Haiti, Rwanda, Birmingham and Mongolia requirements. GS - Done for Peru. Some Uruguay items in but not all. Not done for the rest. Also started engagement with sugar list re: their 0.84 which maps to 9.1. 4 - Prune outdated material off OLPC home page: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_OLPC_Wiki
