[IAEP] Proposal release management

2010-06-24 Thread Simon Schampijer
Hi, in May I tried to find someone to replace me as release manager [1] for 0.90, but as nobody has stepped up to do the job as we defined it I decided that it will be best to keep this role for some more time. I think it will be important for Sugar that we keep some continuation of the

Re: [IAEP] Proposal release management

2010-06-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:32, Simon Schampijer si...@schampijer.de wrote: Hi, in May I tried to find someone to replace me as release manager [1] for 0.90, but as nobody has stepped up to do the job as we defined it I decided that it will be best to keep this role for some more time. I

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Proposal release management

2010-06-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 24.06.2010, at 09:32, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, in May I tried to find someone to replace me as release manager [1] for 0.90, but as nobody has stepped up to do the job as we defined it I decided that it will be best to keep this role for some more time. I think it will be

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Proposal release management

2010-06-24 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 24.06.2010, at 09:32, Simon Schampijer wrote: Hi, in May I tried to find someone to replace me as release manager [1] for 0.90, but as nobody has stepped up to do the job as we defined it I decided that it will

Re: [IAEP] What does No wp tag mean?

2010-06-24 Thread Kevin Cole
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 04:11, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi,   No wp tag It means that disable-security has already been run once, so you don't have to do it again.  (We might want to make it say that explicitly.) So, wp = write protect (or some close variation like write

Re: [IAEP] What does No wp tag mean?

2010-06-24 Thread Holt
wp (Write Protect) and all other tags are defined here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#Defined_Tags Kevin Cole wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 04:11, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote: Hi, No wp tag It means that disable-security has already been run once, so you don't

Re: [IAEP] os180py still not installed :(

2010-06-24 Thread John Watlington
On Jun 24, 2010, at 1:29 AM, Caryl Bigenho wrote: Hi Chris, James, and All... Thanks for the quick replies, Chris and James! But, I'm still trying! I did the probe usb command. it returned with: /pci/u...@f , 5/s...@3,0 /pci/u...@f , 5/w...@0,0 /pci/u...@f , 5/s...@3,0/disk USB1

[IAEP] What Sugar ships (was Re: [Sugar-devel] Proposal release management)

2010-06-24 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 24.06.2010, at 15:29, David Farning wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: To that extent I proposed to the Etoys developers to follow the Sugar development cycle more closely. And that's what we're going to do. Thanks Bert. That will

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] What Sugar ships (was Re: Proposal release management)

2010-06-24 Thread David Farning
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: On 24.06.2010, at 15:29, David Farning wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: To that extent I proposed to the Etoys developers to follow the Sugar development cycle

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Proposal release management

2010-06-24 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Thu, 24-06-2010 a las 10:44 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: What do others think about this? A big +1 from me, thanks a lot for taking this task once more, it is really important for Sugar. A big +1 from me too! Thank you, Simon! Regarding proposed patches, during our development cycle we

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Proposal release management

2010-06-24 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 18:15, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Thu, 24-06-2010 a las 10:44 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió: What do others think about this? A big +1 from me, thanks a lot for taking this task once more, it is really important for Sugar. A big +1 from me too!

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Proposal release management

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Stone
Simon wrote: What do others think about this? I'm glad that you have a proposal that excites Bernie, Bert, and Tomeu. I'm not sure what to think for myself because I don't know whether I correctly understood your intent from my reading of your, Bernie's, and Tomeu's words. (See below.) Bernie

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] RD vs Product Support

2010-06-24 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Wed, 23-06-2010 a las 09:49 -0400, Martin Langhoff escribió: that's exactly my side :-) -- I see SL as the place where companies (yours), foundations (OLPC!) and independent hackers with various motivations meet and collaborate). This is *exactly* how I see SL, too. Quoting Tomeu: If

Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Proposal release management

2010-06-24 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Michael Stone mich...@laptop.org wrote: Perhaps we should instead be talking about whatever role describes the people who /do/ care about the code that goes in? Programmer. Implementor. Product manager. :-) I think the view is that features have their own

Re: [IAEP] FW: liveusb-creator error

2010-06-24 Thread Werner Westermann
Hello Ian. Didn't mean to bother with this problem, but personally I find it very pertinent to this list, where always has been a great suppport around Sugar. So as this community helped me solve the problem, I am moved to be give my report back. Gonzalo, effectively as I lowered the Persistant

[IAEP] SLOBs meeting tomorrow?

2010-06-24 Thread Mel Chua
Do we have a meeting at our usual time of 11am EST in #sugar-meeting? We've got quite the agenda to go through: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes#Agenda_items I'll be there, and logging/thinking-through some of this stuff myself, and doing what I can to work on it, regardless

Re: [IAEP] Summary of eBooks lists... Thanks to all who contributed.

2010-06-24 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
Good material to the wiki!! Gonzalo On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, A few days ago I asked for links to sites with free digital textbooks. Thanks to all who sent links. I thought it would be a good idea to put them all in one place and

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOBs meeting tomorrow?

2010-06-24 Thread Bernie Innocenti
El Thu, 24-06-2010 a las 20:06 -0400, Mel Chua escribió: Do we have a meeting at our usual time of 11am EST in #sugar-meeting? We've got quite the agenda to go through: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Minutes#Agenda_items I will probably not make it tomorrow. as I have another

[IAEP] Tonight's Question: Read vs Read ETexts?

2010-06-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... I haven't given up on os180py yet. I am doing the downloads again to a different usb stick. It is going better. No stalls yet, just the seventh blink on the drive is always a bit longer than the rest. Strange. Saturday I need to show someone via Skype how to use the XO as a book

Re: [IAEP] Tonight's Question: Read vs Read ETexts?

2010-06-24 Thread Tim McNamara
On 25 June 2010 14:39, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Saturday I need to show someone via Skype how to use the XO as a book reader. So far no luck with it. I have tried both the Read Activity and the Read E Texts Activity and can't seem to get either to work well. Are there any

[IAEP] os180py now installed successfully... thanks all! :-D

2010-06-24 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All... Thanks to everyone who helped with last night's problem, installing os180py on an XO-1. At last it is sucessfully installed and running! Here are the things I did to get it to work: 1) Downloaded to a different usb drive (still a fairly new SanDisk, but 2GB instead of 4) 2)

Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] SLOBs meeting tomorrow?

2010-06-24 Thread Walter Bender
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote: El Thu, 24-06-2010 a las 20:06 -0400, Mel Chua escribió: Do we have a meeting at our usual time of 11am EST in #sugar-meeting? We've got quite the agenda to go through: