On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Anish Mangal <an...@activitycentral.com> wrote: > I would like to propose a feature for discussion and inclusion in the > 0.98 cycle. > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Lease_Information_Display > > This feature is valuable for support staff in deployments which use > OLPC's security system built on the XO laptops, and was specifically > requested by the OLPC deployment in Paraguay.
I read the feature page, and I don't really understand the use case or problem that needs to be solved. I'm not convinced that changing sugar is the right answer, especially when this only affects support staff, not regular users. The feature page discusses the case when the lease has expired, but this seems like quite the corner case to me. Assuming that XO laptops are booted and shutdown on a daily basis, this bit of information would only be shown when the following happens: - The XO is booted in the morning - The lease expires shortly after boot - A support staff member happens to pick up that laptop that same day, before the laptop gets shut down, and opens "About my computer" Any member of support staff that deals with leases is going to need to be a little bit familiar with the lease.sig format and location. So running "cat /security/lease.sig" at the terminal can show the same information - its a little bit technical, but again, familiarity is required for this role anyway. For the rare occasions when leases need to be checked, running this command at a terminal suffices here in Nicaragua at least. It is harder to read the expiry of a sig02 lease from catting the file, but as far as I know those aren't used in Paraguay. If the format is too difficult then perhaps a command line tool in bitfrost would be a better solution. >From a technical perspective, the implementation would need to either be quite hacky (parsing lease.sig directly) or use bitfrost. Using bitfrost libraries would be OK but the feature page should note that this now becomes a dependency of sugar. Daniel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel