On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 03:22, Gary C Martin<[email protected]> wrote: > On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:49, Gary C Martin wrote: > >> On 25 Aug 2009, at 16:03, Michael Stone wrote: >> >>>> El Mon, 24-08-2009 a las 20:58 +0200, Martin Langhoff escribi=F3: >>>>> >>>>> And also... and completely from the outside... I'll apologise in >>>>> advance for saying something I know might be controversial. I worry >>>>> that SL seems to have -- for a external party like me -- more >>>>> bureaucracy than it has people "doing". IMHExperience, the >>>>> projects I >>>>> enjoy working on, and that I see being productive have a much lower >>>>> "procedure/label/committe " : contributor ratio. >>>> >>>> I don't necessarily disagree with you, but just 2 days ago I was >>>> offered >>>> an advice on the other side of the spectrum by Michael: he notes >>>> that a >>>> lot of important things are falling through the cracks because nobody >>>> organizes the available resources. His suggestion is to introduce >>>> real >>>> project management into the game, which is basically what David's >>>> Projects idea seems to bring. >>> >>> For the record, I consider my puny efforts to offer more support for >>> Martin's >>> and Greg's remarks than for David's. >>> >>> (The analysis is simply that our current situation is unsurprising >>> given the >>> facts that, first, SL seems to consist more of leaders than of >>> followers and >>> second, that there seems to be a real dearth of people who care more >>> about >>> getting other people unstuck than about making progress on their own >>> pet >>> projects.) >>> >>> (Though, obviously, I'm more guilty than most here.) >>> >>>> A meta-comment on your post: you don't need to apologize and be shy >>>> for >>>> offering your criticism, no matter how many people will disagree with >>>> you. >>> >>> Actually, he does need to apologize and to be shy because doing so >>> makes it >>> easier for folks to hear what he's trying to say. >>> >>> (In our current environment, it works rather similarly to good-cop/ >>> bad-cop.) >>> >>>> I recently got useful criticism from Bemasc, Christoph and Daniel on >>>> #sugar regarding our relationship with Deployments. Their feeling is >>>> that we didn't do enough to get them involved, mine is that our >>>> efforts >>>> to reach out have been largely unsuccessful for reasons I do not >>>> fully >>>> understand. >>> >>> Here's another reason for you to consider: >>> >>> I have come to believe that many people involved in deployments have >>> *learned* >>> that they're not going to get anything useful out of interacting >>> with SL >>> because: >>> >>> 1. SL has largely ignored the feedback supplied by these deployments >>> in >>> 2007-2008 and exhaustively documented by Greg Smith and S Page at >>> >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Roadmap >> >> Wow, blast from the past :-) Actually I'd strongly disagree here. >> Having re-read through most of what is listed here, much progress has >> been made on a large number (dare I say majority) of these items! > > OK, I took up my own challenge here... > > So, please do treat comments below as from the peanut-gallery, and not as > authoritative responses to these ~82 feature requests – many of them > significant compound feature sets in of themselves. I'd say close to 50% > have been resolved, 10% are specifically XO hardware related, 10% XS server, > 15% I don't know enough to confirm or deny, 5-10% are duplicates:
Thanks for taking the time of going through all that and sharing with us. Regards, Tomeu > FWIW: There's a cold beer waiting at the end of this email. > > -- Feature roadmap/Spell checker in Write: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Spell_checker_in_Write > > English checking is back in and working, though unsure about other > languages, likely just down to availability of a dictionary file for a given > language. > > -- Feature roadmap/Sugarized color picker: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Sugarized_color_picker > > Done and in working for Write, Paint Activity (and others that use colour) > haven’t picked this up yet, just a matter of free time (I almost did Paint > but keep getting distracted). > > -- Feature roadmap/Easy "Sugarization": > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Easy_%22Sugarization%22 > > How long is this piece of wet string ;-) But there has been lot’s of effort > here. Off the top of my head I’d point to the switch to Metacity in 0.86, > Tomeu’s GTK+ widget for making Gnash content into full Activities, Tomeu’s > hellow-world PyQt based Activity example. Benjamin’s GSOC Groupthink > workhttp://bemasc.net/~bens/groupthink/groupthink-module.html for solving > collaboration simply (for the author) in many classes of Activity type. > Lucian’s GSOC Webified work http://honeyweb.wordpress.com/ for creating > custom site specific browser Activities. Universal bundle work from Aleksey > came close but pused to 0.88 for time/stability reasons. > > -- Feature roadmap/Activity updater improvements: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Activity_updater_improvements > > This was part of OLPC distro onlu for a long time, but is now recently over > as a part of Sugar. Majority of work I’m aware of is to get it working > smoothly with the activities.sugarlabs.org mozilla addons based site (a big > improvement from all the manual wiki hacking). > > -- Feature roadmap/Concept maps: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Concept_maps > > Me, me, ME!! ;-) No, actually Tomeu picked up Labyrinth sugarisation, then I > did some UI polishing and hooked up extra features along with the talented > Aleksey. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Labyrinth > > -- Feature roadmap/New activities: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/New_activities > > Mixed list here. Abiword has always allow pasting of images to my knowledge. > Socialcalc is still rolling along with updates from time to time. The switch > to Metacity for 0.86 allows any application to be run if you really want to > go that way (and if the HW can actually cope). Tomeu has added a Gnash GTK+ > widget and an example PyQt hello world. > > -- Feature roadmap/Browse update and multi-media: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Browse_update_and_multi-media > > Hmmm... did this get done? Yep, think it did. > > -- Feature roadmap/Terminal improvements: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Terminal_improvements > > Hmmm... Somewhat vague requests. We’ve since got multi tab support instead! > > -- Feature roadmap/Better eBook reader: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Better_eBook_reader > > Lot’s of effort, new Activity options (James) and format support (Sayamindu) > now available. Probably needs re-evaluation based on where we are now. > > -- Feature roadmap/Single sign-on from Browse: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Single_sign-on_from_Browse > > Pass. I’ve seen work happening, but having never tested or tried this side > of school server work so don’t know where we stand today. > > -- Feature roadmap/"Candy Bag" or "Bulletin Board" activity: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/%22Candy_Bag%22_or_%22Bulletin_Board%22_activity > > Aleksey created a very feature rich Library Activity - perhaps too feature > rich ;-) – some of which is going into 0.86 Journal and is related to other > proposed features now pushed to 0.88. > > -- Feature roadmap/Scalable link-local presence: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Scalable_link-local_presence > > Another long piece of wet string, but specifically Cerebro seems to have no > one recently pushing on it for adoption. So most efforts are in debugging > existing stack, picking up general fixes and features from Collabora, > (scalability work seems aimed at server side). > > -- Feature roadmap/Synchronous collaboration: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Synchronous_collaboration > > Big bag of different feature here. Some done (Journal ‘send to -> friend’ > file sharing via both gabble & salut), some not, some now for 0.88 > (Gadget/JID stuff), some partial (buddy tagging is in same ball game, but > more viable/useful vs. buddy avatars). Should also mention Benjamin’s GSOC > Groupthink work solving collaboration for many classes of Activity type. > > -- Feature roadmap/Collaboration groups: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Collaboration_groups > > Sure Martin mentioned this is implemented (using Moodle) but not necessarily > tested/used much yet. Tomeu also implemented buddy tagging (aka profiles) – > Gabble only at the moment, and the UI hasn’t made 0.86. > > -- Feature roadmap/Asynchronous collaboration: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Asynchronous_collaboration > > Long list of (server based) features here that seem to be a description of > what I understand Moodle (or some other CMS) is designed to do... Some > feature work for Browse in 0.86 should smooth some rough edges > (upload/download file naming). > > -- Feature roadmap/File sharing: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/File_sharing > > For user initiated transfers Tomeu’s Journal ‘send to -> friend’ feature > solves much of this. Aleksey’s Library Activity is aimed at the ad-hox > ‘making some Journal stuff generally available’. Solutions for getting the > latter into 0.86 Journal were considered, but pushed to 0.88. > > -- Feature roadmap/Journal improvements: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Journal_improvements > > Some of this is done (Tomeu’s Datastore rework, specifically for > robustness). But plans have moved on given the SL volunteers able & willing > to do the work. > > -- Feature roadmap/Hardware alerts: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Hardware_alerts > > The specific use case (95% disk space) was already covered (though a little > crudely). Notifications are running quite well but don’t cover devices yet > (I think), which would likely be the correct place for these alerts. > > -- Feature roadmap/Contextual help: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Contextual_help > > Not much movement here yet, at least we have more accelerator keys getting > shown in palettes so you can learn the keyboard shortcuts in context :-) > (FWIW, my vote is to focus on making Activities *simpler* so they do not > need help text bloat, and use better secondary help hint messages). > > -- Feature roadmap/GUI suggestion from SJ: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/GUI_suggestion_from_SJ > > This is a path to walk rather than a feature. Think we are making good > progress down this path. > > -- Feature roadmap/Trash can: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Trash_can > > No description or specification at all on this one. I’m guessing “Trashcan > for Journal” no work done I’m aware of. > > -- Feature roadmap/Scalable zoom levels: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Scalable_zoom_levels > > A Neighbourhood list view almost made an 0.86 appearance, but think it’s > pushed to 0.88 now. Same goes for additional UI design work needed for > Gadget. Though Tomeu’s buddy tagging is in 0.86 (but no UI exposure and > Gabble only). > > -- Feature roadmap/Keyboard navigability: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Keyboard_navigability > > Many toolbar palettes now clearly display their accelerator keys, and > several views are now using the GTK+ treeview for 0.86, so inherit better > keyboard navigation accessibility. > > -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Grab-scroll keys: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Grab-scroll_keys > > It is implemented in several Activities (Labyrinth uses it to pan the > canvas), and there is an (XO hardware specific) keyboard shim type > background daemon that has been demonstrated as a potential general > solution. > > -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Blinking lights usage > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Blinking_lights_usage > > No description, specification at all on this one. Pretty sure Mikus was > after the voodoo that drives the XO HW wireless leds. > > -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/VGA Projector: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/VGA_Projector > > Not much SL can do. Though there is a VNC screen sharing activity or two > that may help, along with some better Activity collaboration. > > -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Accurate touchpad: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Accurate_touchpad > > No comment ;-) Actually Sugar can help with better keyboard navigation and > key discovery (both have made good progress). FWIW Pail Fox has been > reviewing and making more touch pad discoveries, there is a new driver in > the F11-on-XO1 tree, but I don’t think it’s in the latest available build > yet. > > -- Feature roadmap/Run Fedora applications on XO: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Run_Fedora_applications_on_XO > > 0.86’s move to Metacity will help a lot here, but this feature is largely > obsoleted now that the F11-on-XO1 OLPC builds ship both Sugar (the default) > and GNOME desktop, and have a button to reboot between the two if desired. > > -- Feature roadmap/Copying files between Journal and USB: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Copying_files_between_Journal_and_USB > > Done. Also Tomeu’s 0.84 datastore work made using a USB stick between > different operating systems *much* more reliable (no ghosts, no vanishing > files, no odd doppelgänger). > > -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Replace JFFS file system with better one: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Replace_JFFS_file_system_with_better_one > > Only a low level FS issue linked to XO HW needs really, nothing SL can do > about this. XO1.5 will avoid this issue due to HW changes. > > -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/NAND full should not crash XO: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/NAND_full_should_not_crash_XO > > Done (though somewhat crudely). > > -- Feature roadmap/File name and directory access: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/File_name_and_directory_access > > Tomeu’s 0.84 datastore work improves some of this, it is just a simple file > directory structure. Could perhaps do with a trivial ls-journal (or some > such name) script to make terminal Journal browsing better for novice use. > The copy-to-journal and copy-from-journal already work well for most needs. > > -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Rebase on Fedora 10: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Rebase_on_Fedora_10 > > Done, well obsolete. Ongoing F11 and F12 work. SoaS work has also been a > help here getting in bug reports etc. > > -- Feature roadmap/Spell checking: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Spell_checking > > Sayamindu has an interesting ‘dictionary everywhere’ effort > http://people.sugarlabs.org/sayamindu/global_dictionary.ogv Not sure why, > but seems to have slipped 0.86. I could also see a smaller version as a > possible ‘dictionary device’ palette in the frame. > > -- Feature roadmap/Better Arabic Support: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Better_Arabic_Support > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough about this to comment. > > -- Feature roadmap/Enhanced i18n: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Enhanced_i18n > > Don’t know the details, but I think quite a chunk of work has been done here > (by Sayamindu). Also being able to select several fallback languages in 0.86 > I’m sure is a big help. > > -- Feature roadmap/SCIM: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/SCIM > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough about this to comment. > > -- Feature roadmap/Language customization: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Language_customization > > Think this is done as well but not enough detail in feature description to > know. > > -- Feature roadmap/Language pack version 3: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Language_pack_version_3 > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough about this to comment, though I have seen a > fair amount of discussion about issues it raises. > > -- Feature roadmap/RTL support: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/RTL_support > > Duplicate feature of above ‘Better Arabic Support.’ Sorry don’t know enough > about this to comment. > > -- Feature roadmap/Multilanguage support: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Multilanguage_support > > Completed for 0.86 (a new CP lets you select languages in order of > preference). > > -- Feature roadmap/Translations: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Translations > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough about this to comment. > > -- Feature roadmap/Network Manager GUI: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Network_Manager_GUI > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough about this to comment. > > -- Feature roadmap/Document and improve default network connection: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Document_and_improve_default_network_connection > > Well, Sugar is much better auto-connecting quickly,correctly to an AP as the > whole Mesh hunt run around is not currently supported. But, sorry, not sure > how much else listed here has been tweaked. > > -- Feature roadmap/802.1x support: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/802.1x_support > > Pass. > > -- Feature roadmap/Full IPv6 support: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Full_IPv6_support > > Pass. Maybe we picked up improvements due to F11 and F12? > > -- Feature roadmap/XO as internet gateway (formerly called MPP): > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/XO_as_internet_gateway_%28formerly_called_MPP%29 > > Hmmmm. I seem to remember reading the Tomeu’s new ad-hoc 0.86 support allows > internet sharing, but have not discovered this myself yet during testing, so > likely ignore me. I understand MPP can be enabled manually, but is disabled > by default due to wireless bandwidth saturation issues. > > -- Feature roadmap/"Asynchronous internet": > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/%22Asynchronous_internet%22 > > Not much progress, Lucian’s GSOC Webified work may help a little here. > > -- Feature roadmap/Reliable access to encrypted APs: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Reliable_access_to_encrypted_APs > > Better I think, but likely not ‘the best’. The joys of working with poor > wireless security specs. > > -- Feature roadmap/Printing support: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Printing_support > > Vamsi’s GSOC Printer support covers this I think > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Print_Support though not sure when it will land > (USB and server support via Moodle). > > -- Feature roadmap/Debug tool: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Debug_tool > > Hmmm... “Diagnostic USB stick which analyzes and reports back detailed > status.” A some what open ended feature request. Pass. Sorry don’t know > enough about this, though Sebastian has been pushing on smolt for > semi-automated hardware feedback – but I guess this feature was a request > for some ‘Sugar’ or ‘Fedora’ failure case detection? > > -- Feature roadmap/Backup to Internet: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Backup_to_Internet > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status, though it does seem to > be actively worked on (SoaS backup to a school server seems particularly > active topic). > > -- Feature roadmap/Universal view-source: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Universal_view-source > > Done, perhaps some custom binary file types the source viewer doesn’t > display yet, but source & syntax high-lighting is all looking lovely and > shiny. Discussion moved on a long time ago (almost a year?) to source code > search, universal edit-source and versioning. Along with source view for > Sugar code its self. > > -- Feature roadmap/Developers Center web site: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Developers_Center_web_site > > Done. See Sugar Labs wiki and infrastructure. > > -- Feature roadmap/System clock: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/System_clock > > “Must have a clock on the XO” I’ve been running Martin Dengler’s frame > device clock for a while. It’s a bit visuallu large (i.e. device non-square > icon) and doesn’t have an analogue mode, but any deployment can choose to > add it to their builds, no questions asked, it's written as a Sugar > 'extension'. > > -- Feature roadmap/Library and bundle updates: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Library_and_bundle_updates > > Again... Long piece of wet string topic. Lot’s of discussion, Aleksey has > some great universal bundle proposals, but they’ve now been pushed back to > 0.88 due to lack of support and worries of stability (due to development/QA > time). > > -- Feature roadmap/Caps lock option: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Caps_lock_option > > Lack of a Caps lock key is a major feature, but lack of a global Caps lock > option (uppercase display of all text) is a missing feature. Walter hoped to > pick this up for 0.86, but apologised for letting it slip to 0.88. > > -- Feature roadmap/Fully comply with GPLv3: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Fully_comply_with_GPLv3 > > Someone phone the lawyers! No seriously, report any missing legal asci and > get it actioned. Developers know it’s (annoyingly) important even if fixing > bugs, making things work, and adding new features are foremost in our minds. > > -- Feature roadmap/Screen zoom: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Screen_zoom > > No specific progress. But with Metacity in 0.86, I’m sure you can run any > old screen zooming software you care too. Smart, clever Sugar UI integration > will need to be for another day. > > -- Feature roadmap/General UI sluggishness: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/General_UI_sluggishness > > Again, more wet string but a laudable goal. For non-XO HW I believe > compositing is now enabled by default. Metacity is better supported but I’ve > seen no ‘better/worse’ response measurements for it (though allegedly it > does eat more memory than Matchbox did, so that’s not a great sign). Lot’s > of bug fixes and design clean-up, but it’d take some focused QA time to see > if there are real measurable UI changes on average, and you need to argue > that against the improved feature set. FWIW, I at least haven’t noticed a > degradation in XO performance. But this is a ‘needs testing’ item. > > -- Feature roadmap/Faster task switching: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Faster_task_switching > > Duplicate. See above. > > -- Feature roadmap/Faster activity launch and save: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Faster_activity_launch_and_save > > Duplicate. See above. > > -- Feature roadmap/Shutdown menu: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Shutdown_menu > > Paul Foxes powerd see current F11-on-XO1 implements this, best I can tell. > > -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/No power regressions: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/No_power_regressions > > OK, so not just XO HW, but that’s the intended regression case here. Paul > Fox has done some wonderful stuff in powerd (XO, only is my understanding), > seemingly much more than in previous OLPC builds, you can see it in action > on F11-on-XO1. Though there is still active discussion if OLPC will be > shipping it in their builds. > > -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Improved battery life: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Improved_battery_life > > Again not just XO HW but that is the assumption given Sugar was not reliably > available elsewhere at the time. Duplicate, see above. Though this does > include a long shopping list touching just about every part of HW, device > driver level, screen, network, etc, etc you could possibly try to mention. > > -- Feature roadmap/Clipboard: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Clipboard > > Hmmm, all information about this appears to have been purged from the wiki. > Must have been real good stuff ;-) FWIW: The Clipboard does now show a > preview of text you clipped making life easier if you have a bunch of > clippings in use. > > -- Feature roadmap/Memory pressure: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Memory_pressure > > Both 0.84 and 0.86 have introduced UI changes to improve reported causes of > memory pressure. The former implemented a home view that resumes by default > and so aid as a switch to current instances rather than create new instances > one after another. The latter implements the new tool bar design that had a > primary goal of always keeping the “Stop” toolbar button visible so that > folks didn’t get lost and could stop existing activities clearly at all > times. Though still no low level resolution, once you stray into the woods > Fangorn. > > -- Feature roadmap/Journal never loses work: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Journal_never_loses_work > > Activities improve all the time... And Tomeu did a top notch job on the > robust Journal re-implementation in 0.84. Unfortunately most deployments > still don’t have it and failures are from ~year + old software :-( > > -- XS Blueprints:Datastore Simple Backup and Restore: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Blueprints:Datastore_Simple_Backup_and_Restore > > I haven’t seen this in action, but I understand this is available and has > been for some time (Martin can you comment?). > > -- Feature roadmap/Image customization: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Image_customization > > SoaS (distro) has re-raised many of these cases (random cloning of already > booted and hand hacked sticks has caused much QA traffic). Many point seem > more pertinent a question for the base OS distros, and not Sugar, which > seems pretty flexible in how it is customisable. > > -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Image signing key delegation: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Image_signing_key_delegation > > Done I think. And future XO-1.5 HW is unsigned by default as I understand > it. > > -- Feature roadmap/Activation lease security: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Activation_lease_security > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status, though Martin seem to be > actively working on such stuff. > > -- Feature roadmap/Theft reporting: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Theft_reporting > > Duplicate. Pass, same as above. > > -- Feature roadmap/Activation via wireless: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Activation_via_wireless > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status, though I do remember > reading about many such items being worked on (Martin again I think). > > -- Feature roadmap/XO monitoring: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/XO_monitoring > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status, some of this may be > possible now via the XS and client strings reported by Browse (linked to > activity.SL.org and XS registration processes). Also plenty of discussion > regarding the benefits and drawback of ‘assessment’ based on stat > collection. > > -- Feature roadmap/GUI OS updates: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/GUI_OS_updates > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status, though there is ongoing > work now that the update control panel had been picked up as part of Sugar – > mainly related to supporting the activities.sugarlabs.org infrastructure. > Full OS updates still seem a fairly open question. > > -- [XO HW] Feature roadmap/Faster imaging: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Faster_imaging > > For the XO, can I just say Nand Blaster, lightning fast, robust, and dead > simple to use! All hail The Mitch! > > -- Feature roadmap/Improved antitheft mechanisms: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Improved_antitheft_mechanisms > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status. Likely see Martin re: > above as well as he’s been working here recently. > > -- Feature roadmap/Security and isolation work: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Security_and_isolation_work > > Pass. Embarrassed to say I don’t know enough to comment on status. Rainbow > had fallen out of Sugar for a while, but I understand much of the underlying > work is now back in place. This is currently more an area of regression than > improvement. > > -- Feature roadmap/Scalable server-based presence: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Scalable_server-based_presence > > Long piece of wet string, again, work progresses... SoaS team have recently > been pushing on the server side to try and establish the weak points. Gadget > is implemented, but as yet no GUI for it on the Sugar side. > > -- Feature roadmap/School server push of XO images: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/School_server_push_of_XO_images > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status. > > -- Feature roadmap/Automatically recognize XO on restore page: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap/Automatically_recognize_XO_on_restore_page > > Pass. Sorry don’t know enough to comment on status. > > Regards, > --Gary > > P.S. Wow, you made it down the page! I fibbed about the cold beer, sorry, I > needed it myself about two and a half pages back. > > -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
