I promised regular status reports on our release work and I've been lax
in writing them. Here are my current thoughts on the content of and
risks associated with our second ("August") 2008 release, 8.2.0. These
assesments are heavily based on current rates of improvement and
available labor. (I'm seriously concerned about upcoming distractions,
but don't quite know how to factor them in.)
Current Thoughts:
* I'm EXPECTING major changes in:
a) Sugar frame/home-view rework - Marco
b) Sugar control panel - Simon
c) Browser improvements - Simon/Tomeu
d) F-9 Rebase - Dennis/Michael
e) Manually enabled power management - Chris/Scott/Deepak
f) Presence & collaboration reliability bugfixing
- Collabora, Morgan
g) Backup to XS
* I'm NOT EXPECTING major changes in
the Journal
the Datastore
activity isolation (modulo faster launching)
the neighborhood view
* I'm UNCERTAIN about what architectural changes will be available for
consideration in:
collaboration (e.g. gadget, cerebro, telepathy-cerebro).
- Collabora, Polychronis
theft deterrence - Scott, Emiliano
software provisioning (e.g. olpc-update / reflash) - Scott, Mitch
wireless/connectivity - Michailis, Cozybit, Deepak
I'm also UNCERTAIN about several CONFIGURATION DEFAULTS like:
touchpad in absolute or relative mode?
hot-corners delay?
activity placement algorithm / view
invalid browser certificate handling algorithm
Next steps:
If you're working on something where I'm expecting major change, then
we should discuss moving your changes from development into an
official test build for QA in the next week. I suggest contacting me
by public email with your first proposal. Documentation in Trac bugs
or wiki pages will be happily accepted.
(If you think I've misjudged an changeset, please reply so that we can
fix the issue.)
Open Questions:
* You want to make changes to the release candidates. What is your
burden of proof (of quality/readiness) today? What will it be N weeks
from now?
* We managed to ship the Ship.1? release only after we agreed on the
"WE ARE DONE WHEN: ..." list. What are the contents of the release
checklist this time around? (Need to figure out how to involve the
deployment tech leads... in answering this).
Thanks,
Michael
P.S. - Ancillary documentation:
Release Process: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Plan_of_Record-2008
Priorities: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Priorities-2008
Stub 8.1.1 Features: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_8.1.1_Features
(needs to be finished so we can write
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_8.2.0_Features
for the QA dept).
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