New joyride build 1994

http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1994 Changes in build 1994 from build: 1992 Size delta: -0.13M -rainbow 0.7.12-1.olpc2 +rainbow 0.7.13-1.olpc2 --- Changes for rainbow 0.7.13-1.olpc2 from 0.7.12-1.olpc2 --- + Fix dlo#6989 - beware of contract violations induced by CO

Re: Release process

Folks, Here's what I took away from the comments I received concerning my transcript of my conversation with Marco and a few thoughts in response. You should check my summary to see if I misunderstood you. Regards, Michael Summary --- Dennis: To date, to our detriment, we have done de

Software Status Meeting Tomorrow @ 1400 EDT, 1800 UTC in #olpc-meeting on freenode

Let's talk tomorrow about #7014, build 706 (which everyone ought to test; olpc-update -f update.1-706), and what we should take away from the fact that Blake and Ricardo were the only people who contributed patches/packages for inclusion in our bugfix release. Please reply to this mail with any ot

Re: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:59:03PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > And read the Alan Dean Foster novel Quozl, too. I showed Foster and > many others an XO at the BayCon2007 Science Fiction convention, and he > thinks what we are doing is totally wonderful. Mild panic. Hope he doesn't mind me conti

Re: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:47 PM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:05 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> p.s. a @laptop.org address does not imply I am paid by OLPC. It is an >> address that lets me participate more directly, that's all. > > Let m

New update.1 build 706

http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build706 Changes in build 706 from build: 705 Size delta: 0.13M -kernel 2.6.22-20080312.2.olpc.f3687aa7e09fd65 +kernel 2.6.22-20080523.1.olpc.28f4cb6e780db07 -libertas-usb8388-firmware 2:5.110.22.p1-1.fc7 +libertas-usb8388-firmware 2:5.110

Re: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:38 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your opinions matter much more if they are backed up with > working code, or with a community of volunteers to attack some task, > or a well-written report. We get a lot of opinions. Many of them > are, frankly, misdi

Re: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:05 PM, James Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > p.s. a @laptop.org address does not imply I am paid by OLPC. It is an > address that lets me participate more directly, that's all. Let me try to head off another charge of cabalism here before it is alleged: there is no

New faster build 1992

http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build1992 Changes in build 1992 from build: 1989 Size delta: 0.00M -tzdata 2008b-1.fc7 +tzdata 2008b-3.fc7 --- Changes for tzdata 2008b-3.fc7 from 2008b-1.fc7 --- + Morocco introduces DST + Pakistan introduces DST -- This mail was au

New joyride build 1992

http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build1992 Changes in build 1992 from build: 1989 Size delta: 0.00M -tzdata 2008b-1.fc7 +tzdata 2008b-3.fc7 --- Changes for tzdata 2008b-3.fc7 from 2008b-1.fc7 --- + Morocco introduces DST + Pakistan introduces DST -- This mail was a

Re: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 07:38:47PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > A related issue is when people loudly insist that "OLPC" solve their > personal problem *right now*. Again, we have tens of thousands of > machines in the field now, and thousands more every day. [...] +1 Well put. My opinion

Re: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent

Well, since I'm apparently the one fingered as "smart", "holier than thou", and "derisive", let me publicly apologize for being short-tempered at times. I do get frustrated when I see the same issues pop up over and over again: remember there are many many more of you out there than there are here

New update.1 build 705

http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/olpc/streams/update.1/build705 Changes in build 705 from build: 704 Size delta: 0.00M -olpc-utils 0.73-1.olpc2 +olpc-utils 0.74-1.olpc2 -xkeyboard-config 1.1-17.20071130cvs.olpc2 +xkeyboard-config 1.1-19.20071130cvs.olpc2 --- Changes for xkeyboard-config 1.1-1

Re: OLPC: Open Organized Transparent

[sorry to resurrect] On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:53:11PM -0400, Garrett Goebel wrote: > Going back through the archives, I have to admit that as often as not > the smack talk came from someone without a laptop.org email address. > But here are some examples of offensive, dismissive, and unanswered