As 8.2 is stabilising, and we read from Morgan's survey that not all activity authors are testing on 8.2, it seemed an interesting track to play with as many possible activities as we could on 8.2 .
So we did :-) Adopt an activity today was the motto. Overall 8.2 is looking fairly good. Networking and sharing proved to be a challenge - see notes at the end. Couple of notes - most of these have no 'component' in trac, we filed them as other-activity, and added the name of the activity as a keyword - very hard to find the email addresses of the authors! how do we show love to them? why do we have in the wiki "maintainer unknown" for so many activities where the maintainer is well known? Wikipedia / Journal - Worked very well and it's fantastic to have the content on the XO. But installation of large activities shows UI problems with the Journal. The Journal UI locks up while copying and unzipping with no user feedback. Colors-3 - Worked well -,Very high CPU usage even when we weren't painting, empty canvas. - Does not close (#8335) apparently due to a bad interaction withe the snapshot that Sugar takes when 'stop' is requested. Implode-4 - works well an 3 XOs tried! - The first ("easy"?) puzzle is not one you can use so it's fairly confusing. - Loading a large puzzle is also quite slow. (Is it trying to compute whether it's "winnable"?) X2O-5 - Worked very well - A bit slow sometimes Doom - worked well on 3 separate machines. -The key bindings however mask the Sugar keybindings. Bug...? Mini vMac - Works well, and gives the Mac fans little jumps - No sound? - No network? - Display is very small, could it be done with a 2x zoom? - Shutdown process is mildly awkward Conozco Uruguay - Fails to start #8334 Frotz - works well - had fun playing it! PlayGo-3 - launches and collaborates successfully, - the Activities page in the Wiki only offers PlayGo-1 which doesn't work on 8.2! (Andrés has already fixed this, thanks!) Speak-7 - Worked well - Can we teach it Spanish? Horsegame - works well! - you can indeed haz a pony - Carrots! - Apples! Asteroids - fails to start - No module named ImageLoad (#8333) FiftyTwo-2 - launches and seems to offer collaboration, but this in practice does not work. The player always plays against the computer, even if the activity has been "shared" successfully. Abalone-080601 - starts and works well. SliderPuzzle-5 - successful launch - crashed on one XO (out of 2 tried) but we did not get a log of that (Alastair - do you think you can try to repro it and file a bug) JigsawPuzzle-3 - successful launch and play Jump-1 - successful launch and play Mimic-1 - failed to launch, illegal instruction in mmxCombineAddU (#8336) - how to contact the maintainer...? Implode - successful play on two separate XOs Calculator - successful play - Does not display an error on divide by zero - even though it does display error msgs in some other instances - If fed a large calculation, it locks up trying to resolve it, UI is no longer responsive, does not respond to "stop". (Grant, can you file a detailed bug on this?) Simcity - Successful play - Tiny fonts Maze - Successful play Sudoku - Successful play Notes on collaboration and networking Collaboration and networking... ...Oh so much trouble. - Collaboration over simple mesh mostly works. - Associating to an AP using WPA is extremely unreliable. Some laptops do, some after a few tries, some never. Likely to be the timing bug that has been discussed before. - Network manager is _not _ happy when an AP goes from WPA encryption to no encryption. iwlist can see the AP with no encryption but ccording to nm-tool, the AP is still requesting "WEP". The fix: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop rm /home/olpc/.sugar/default/nm/networks.cfg *cold reboot* (does the Libertas driver preserve any state?) - Collaboration over unencrypted AP + Schoolserver running ejabberd did *not* work at all. I did not have a chance to debug this thoroughly, but odd things happen. olpc-netstatus errors out because session.info is missing. The client side never tries to register to ejabberd apparently. !? Credits... a ton of testing and debugging today, thanks to all those activity authors! Alastair Munro Grant Patterson Tabitha Roder cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel