On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 04:35:30PM -0500, David Farning wrote:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, for a variety of reasons, I'm working quite hard to make
rainbow usable on stock linux machines like those represented by
Debian and Fedora chroots
Javier,
Michailis mentioned to me that the wireless team had worked out a set of
command-line arguments for wpa_supplicant which yield excellent
association reliability. Could you please publish these arguments?
Thanks very much,
Michael
___
Devel
I intended to spend a few minutes talking about build tools as part of
my 'Forgotten Tools' talk, but Chris points out to me that this is a
sufficiently important topic to be worth more in-depth discussion.
Hence the following talk, which will discuss the current state of
pilgrim, puritan, other
Per Ed's implicit request, I have updated
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2 and
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2/Fundraising
to the postponement directive.
Michael
P.S. - I wish to offer special personal thanks to the six warm-hearted
(but cool-headed) donors who pledged to fund
I've worked on a variety of tools or tool-like communication aids, e.g
* gitembed / gitedit
* test-activity
* the Joyride dropbox mechanism
* puritan
* triagebot
* [[Friends in Testing]]
* [[OLPC:Journal]]
* summarize-activity
which I frequently wish were better known.
I've long wondered about the ambiguities and puzzles inherent in the
notion of 'activity' rather than 'application'. Therefore, I'd like to
talk about them!
I'll also speak about what I learned from recent experiments that I've
conducted writing activity-like software for helping humans to
If one chooses to regard Activities as the basic building blocks of
learning experiences, then it seems natural to wonder how these blocks
can be glued together into larger learning structures. I will present
some thoughts that Cynthia, Barbara, Chris, Brian, and I have had on
this subject. (I am
I wish to add two things to what Scott wrote:
First, two purposes for the conference have been recognized to date:
1) to facilitate planning relevant to 9.1 and beyond,
2) to build trust and relationships between community members.
Given present realities, three options have been
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 04:46:17PM +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do the XS installation instructions offer any guidance on prohibiting
booting with init=/bin/bash, booting from external media, or simply
removing the XS hard
Marco,
I did some basic profiling of my new rainbow code last night and
discovered that, in the best case with the current codebase on XO, it
costs about 0.5s/1 exec(python). Approximately 80% of the 0.5s was
spent importing modules.
I hope to dig deeper in the near future, but I am concerned at
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 07:02:23PM +1300, Douglas Bagnall wrote:
2. If you want to disable root login via the system password, touch
/etc/xs-otp/disable-root-password. This file will eventually exist
by default, but for now this option should be used with care. It
*could* leave you
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:54:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this feature has been discussed on the list(s) earlier, but i'm not
sure of its status. i'd like to make sure it gets on the table.
(and it just came up in dan's ethiopian report.)
currently it is much easier to crash the laptop
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:15:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
michael wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:54:52AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this feature has been discussed on the list(s) earlier, but i'm not
sure of its status. i'd like to make sure it gets on the table.
(and it
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:46:37AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:53 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Persistent activity storage
What does this mean?
That when you resume an activity, it should come up with the same uid it
had when you launched it, and
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:45:49PM -0500, Philippe Clérié wrote:
I see there is a page (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Upgrade_Server)
describing a way to make an upgrade server. But it uses a debian
system not an XS server. And the software is not _released_ yet.
Is it safe enough to use in actual
Michael Stone (in concert with SJ Klein) wrote the 0th issue of The
OLPC Journal:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC:Journal
in order to have a good place to publish the devel@ summary that he
wrote with Mel last week.
---
I've also spent a bit of time hacking on rainbow
Greg,
Here are some comments and questions on your meeting and minutes. I hope
you find them helpful.
We had an internal kick off meeting for next release planning on Wed.
October 15.
How, in your opinion, did the private setting improve the meeting?
Starting next week, this will become a
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:57:57PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You really do not get it do you!! The basic functionality should be
provided by OLPC with a build of gnash optimized for the Geode.
I should note that I'm
Dear devel@ and security@,
Scott asked me to spend some time thinking on the topic of activity
signing [1] in the context of activity upgrade [2, 3, 4]. Since I have
some previous thoughts on this subject already available [5, 6], I will
concentrate on new thoughts in this thread. Please enjoy my
This is just a brief note summarizing our experience at the
http://live.gnome.org/Boston2008/GUIHackfest
In short:
* Scott gave a long talk on his
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Experiments_with_unordered_paths
and on his crazy journal ideas.
* Michael gave a short talk on
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:55:43PM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote:
You acknowledge that the system is not functioning as well as it should
be in its curren state. Please stop saying we are going to do this
Instead, please stop saying we are going to do this and just do it and
be done with it!
and
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:09:22PM -0700, Carol Hussein Lerche wrote:
One thing that might help is a wiki FAQ about the journal collecting a
roadmap and pointers to the work that has taken place already in one place.
Yours is an excellent suggestion which we should strive to implement for
all of
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:35:40PM -0700, Carol Hussein Lerche wrote:
In response to Scott's mail, if you look at the roadmaps linked to there is
nothing approaching a feature oriented roadmap there, though a lot of good
input is gathered in the mails captured at the end of his w.l.o/9.1 link,
and
Andres,
Could you point me toward a writeup of your (or rather, your users')
security goals for their interaction with EduBlog?
(I'm also happy to offer you my suggestions as to what they should be.)
Michael
P.S. - You should send your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well
since there are a number
John, Mitch,
First, thanks for improving pretty-boot!
Second, I have a suggestion for you:
I have always regarded our various locks (software: firmware lock,
activation lock, kernel lock, reflash lock, root password, minimal
default ui; hardware: USB/SD slots, screws, solder-points) as
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:27:48AM -0400, John Watlington wrote:
How about providing dev. keys for G1G1 laptops with
no delay ?Would you consider it an improvement ?
I would consider it a mediocre usability improvement in exchange for a
moderate security risk -- it fails to permit any
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:01:11AM -0700, pato wrote:
Pato,
We are using a Cisco RADIUS server that implements WPA2 enterprise and
WPA-PEAP with MSCHAPv2. The SSID is also hidden.
Glad to hear from you -- PEAP/802.11i/802.1X and hidden SSIDs are not
yet supported but will probably be supported
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 03:21:49PM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
To Michael: Not sure who to direct this to, but should the post install
scripts do some extra checks for this potential upgrade fluff? Not sure
how many upgrades this could effect.
What might we do with it if we found it?
Folks,
The Pycon'09 calls for proposals and tutorials have just gone up!
http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/proposals/
http://us.pycon.org/2009/tutorials/proposals/
What are we going to propose?
Regards,
Michael
___
Devel mailing list
Michael Stone managed and assisted in the creation and signing of the
8.2-765 candidate build.
--
In more detail:
* I reviewed and approved the changes taking us from 8.2-760 to 8.2-765.
Particular thanks are due to cscott, cjb, and marcopg for efforts
above and beyond the call
After checking with Joe this evening and having previously discussed the
necessary security signoffs with Mitch, Richard, Scott, Andres, and
Deepak, I have decided to publish 8.2-765 as a signed Candidate in the
interests of spurring easier and more widespread testing over the
weekend. I have also
It seems that mangling occurred; however, I repaired it and have
temporarily published the results here:
http://teach.laptop.org/~mstone/gary.txt
Michael
___
Devel mailing list
Devel@lists.laptop.org
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:16:17PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
We all agree that the datastore needs serious attention, although it
doesn't directly impact the running of legacy activities. Rainbow is
an issue. And moving data back and forth between Sugar and legacy apps
is an issue.
Please say
You'll know that we're nearing the end of our arduous 8.2.0 release cycle when
you see the polish and features in our new candidate build, 8.2-763, valid
until Wednesday, September 30 [1]. Its changelog (from 759) is available here:
I was hoping to be able to announce the availability of 8.2-761 but it
does not seem to have been created over the weekend and I am unable to
locate the required pilgrim and mock commits or changelog in any of
dev.l.o:/git
mock.l.o:~mock
mock.l.o:~cscott
pilgrim.l.o:~cscott
As a matter of fact, I believe that the 'reset' button actually moves
your old configuration aside so that you can inspect it at your leisure.
(The files are small and, as you observe, contain important data;
therefore, there seemed to be no compelling reason to actually delete
them...)
Regards,
Folks, this is a small announcement for devel of new release snapshots
which you are going to come to know rather intimately over the next few
days. In short, please start testing 762 first, when it arrives in about
an hour. (761 is a 'just in case' fall-back position that separates
mostly-olpc
My impression, based on historical conversations with the parties
involved is that there are a bunch of hackers who feel that we did
ourselves a disservice by dropping _so much_ backwards compatibility,
specifically with Unix filesystems and desktops, in exchange for
cool ideas. The feeling is
You folks might be interested to know that you can teach NetworkManager
to prefer connecting to APs instead of to the mesh.
I believe the command is
echo infra /etc/NetworkManager/mesh-start
Michael
___
Devel mailing list
Devel@lists.laptop.org
Paul,
I think what Noah meant was that you would need to create a Trac Report.
Read http://dev.laptop.org/wiki/TracReports for more info.
Michael
___
Devel mailing list
Devel@lists.laptop.org
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Gabriel,
To understand Rainbow, start by reading
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Security
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#Security
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Rainbow
or by asking people about it on IRC.
Michael
P.S. - You wrote that
Since there is little documentation on
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 05:13:35PM -0300, Gabriel Eirea wrote:
Gabriel,
Thank you for your detailed and polite response.
Thank you for the links. Actually I had already visited links 2 and 3
doing a search on rainbow in the wiki. Unfortuantely I was unable to
understand what rainbow means from
Michael Stone prepared the way for 8.2-761, which, pending creation,
announcement, and testing will probably our first signed 8.2.0 candidate
build, at which time it will be in some danger of being shipped two
weeks hence. He expects that 8.2-761 will be published on Friday.
---
In more detail I
On IRC today, Greg asked me several questions. My responses are inline:
* How do we know when are ready to build a release snapshot?
Immediately after we publish a new release snapshot, I enter my
'waiting' state. In this waiting state, I wait for test results and
for new tickets to
John,
dlo#8354 is believed to be fixed in 8.2-760. Can you confirm or deny
this?
Thanks,
Michael
___
Devel mailing list
Devel@lists.laptop.org
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Ed pointed out to me that I used a bit of jargon, 'release snapshot',
which I had not formerly introduced. By 'release snapshot', I mean a
build in a release stream (e.g. 8.2, rather than joyride) which is in
danger of becoming a release candidate should testing go well. To first
order, (signed)
rainbow-0.7.22 should recognize a 'use-serial' permission which, when
specified, will add the 'uucp' group to the specifying activity's list
of auxiliary groups. Please test.
Regards,
Michael
___
Devel mailing list
Devel@lists.laptop.org
Scott and devel@,
In response to several requests, I have finally made olpc-log capture
more information. (Caveat: I have only tested the new olpc-log under
ideal circumstances; i.e. on a clean-installed joyride).
In spite of this lack of widespread testing, I think we would stll be
well
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 02:13:24PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Not from outside python, but from inside we are using heapy:
http://guppy-pe.sourceforge.net/
Tomeu already published some guppy RPMs but here is a git repo with
pacakging instructions (Makefiles) should you wish to make any changes.
A more accurate test would be to disable the preloading itself rather
than disabling isolation but leaving rainbow loading the libraries. :)
To do that, see lines 31-32 of
/usr/lib/python2.5/site_packages/rainbow/service.py
You want to set self.preloader_hint = False and comment out the call
In preparation for shipping an 8.2.0 build to manufacturing, we need to
agree on release criteria. To that end, I have stubbed out rough ECO
documentation for 8.2.0 at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ECO/8.2.0
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ECO/8.2.0/Checklist
Please review these pages and offer
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:10:57PM -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 00:10 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
- whether we can get Browse to behave intelligently when it receives
BadAlloc errors from X?
I have no doubt that Browse/xulrunner has room for improvement with
memory
Dear devel@,
This is your notification of our serious intent to release 8.2.0 within
the next three weeks, if possible.
* This week, we intend to publish an unsigned raw OS and an unsigned
G1G1 derivative image for testing. We will begin our the first-boot
activation security audit
Alan,
Thanks very much for the detailed writeup of your findings (and for your
efforts make OLPC's software distribution more friendly to people who
like Java). I can't personally resolve any of the questions which you
raise with any authority but I can direct you toward the people who
might be
Thanks for the suggestions. So is all RPM packaging done by the Red
Hat team?
OLPC and some of its friends help maintain several packages important to
OLPC in Fedora. RedHat employees assist other Fedora volunteers in the
same task. (Understand that Fedora and RedHat are related but
Pia,
The final weeks of September seem more likely to me at the moment. If
you want to stay up to date, please watch
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/8.2.0
Then you'll receive instant notifications. :)
Also, will you be able to help test our next release candidate(s)?
Michael
Dear devel@,
Kim, Greg, and I have concluded that the instability we experience under
memory-pressure in 8.2-759 and similar is the single hard issue that
we wish to _attempt_ to address before releasing 8.2 on current
timeframes. (We recognize that there are several other issues marked
as
Michael Stone spent the week documenting procedures like the Trac ticket
workflow, the procedure for restoring factory-default settings to an XO,
and the test case and test result creation procedures on the wiki. He
also released a new versions of rainbow and olpc-utils with several
small
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:32:33AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
I'll work hard next Welly testing round (in about 24hs) to get logs
and steps-to-repro on those hard ones. Do let me know if you have a
better candidat than 757!
Martin,
Thanks for your feedback. As of today, please use 759, which
We got an awesome new 8.2 candidate build, 8.2-759, valid until
Wednesday, September 10. Its changelog is available here:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-September/018843.html
(except that we decided to hold off on the #7415 patch)
Please help test it according to the
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 03:20:18PM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
there is a ticket open for fedora to provide OLPC infrastructure resources.
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/740 Im needing to know
what it is the OLPC would like?
I think we're looking for a more secure,
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
Has anyone tried making the activity which is X-windows and inside which
other activities can run?
[1] and [2] seem apropos.
Michael
[1]: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7768#comment:8
[2]:
Friends,
As we wind down toward the end of the 8.2.0 release cycle (and begin to
tighten our change control), we must make a few tweaks to the Trac
ticket workflow. I have written up the new workflow in great detail at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Trac_ticket_workflow
The highlight is three new
We are thrilled to announce our zeroth (Alpha) 8.2 release candidate,
8.2-757, valid until Wednesday, September 3.
Please help test it according to the detailed instructions at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing
while we still have time to fix issues you might find!
Next, since
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:09:36AM +0200, Simon Schampijer wrote:
Hi,
as koji is up again i built a new xulrunner rpm
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=60150 in the OLPC-3
branch.
It has not been picked up by the builds yet. Are there any changes?
Yes, Dennis and Scott are
Hilaire,
Some people (Blaketh, on IRC) have reported some success updating B2's
to recent software; however, the economics are such that we prefer to
replace B2's with more recent hardware via the Developer's Program [1]
than to support the old hardware.
Michael
[1]: (http://projectdb.olpc.at)
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 07:33:15PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
Can someone please change the PILGRIM_LOCALES_jffs2 variable to
include the locale rw ?
Done. See commit 78fbbc7c on the 8.2 stream (and others on the master,
autobuild, and joyride streams.)
Michael
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 05:17:53PM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Is there any documentation about when develop.sig would be erased ?
Because our NAND is unpartitioned, reflashing the NAND means that you
lose _all_ data stored on NAND. To avoid this problem in the future,
either keep your
Michael Stone wrote several things that needed to be written, including:
* the detailed 8.2.0 release roadmap: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/8.2.0
* a plan for systematic testing of 8.2.0 (to be published soon), to
complement the wonderful exploratory testing contributed on devel@
* new
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:59:13AM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
Hmm, this sounds like it should be (a) a release note, and (b) we
should post a script to 'make things right'. (Similar to the
datastore issue.) I'll stub out appropriate text in the wiki for
this.
The other change we could
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:35:09AM -0500, Erik Garrison wrote:
Currently there is no method to set items settable via sugar-control
panel using the customization key, or to run a script of some kind at
customization-key unpacking time? It might be very useful if not yet
exists.
There are
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 06:18:47AM +0100, victor wrote:
Hello everyone,
I was trying to find the correct info on OS versioning in the wiki, but
could not. So perhaps you can enlighten me?
There's some information at [[Release process home]] on the wiki. I
also have some detailed (and amusing)
Please join us in #olpc-meeting after the sugar meeting!
Michael
___
Devel mailing list
Devel@lists.laptop.org
http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
Folks,
I put in some time on Trac today by updating report 28 (blockers) so
that it shows you the 'next action' field, creating reports 29 (proposed
blockers) and 30 (polish) based on 28, and touching up [[Trac
conventions]] and [[Trac queries]]. Finally, I added two new 'action
needed' entries:
Dear world,
Bring your burning release questions tomorrow and your status updates on
Wednesday at the usual time and place. Please reply to this thread in
advance if you have specific issues you'd like to discuss.
Thanks,
Michael
___
Devel mailing
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:41:13AM +1000, Pia Waugh wrote:
There are a few interesting feature requests I've had from local trials,
including the ability to only allow an XS to talk to approved XOs, to
avoid strangers parking outside a school with an XO and interacting with
children (worst case
According to man sched_setscheduler you want either CAP_SYS_NICE or a
non-zero RLIMIT_RTPRIO and giving these to you means that you can
hardlock the machine anytime by busywaiting. Audio performance is
clearly important to us in this release -- probably more important than
stopping random
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:15:08PM +0100, victor wrote:
Aren't these priorities the same ones set in /etc/security/limits.conf?
Or are they set by other means?
/etc/security/limits.conf is simply one vehicle (specifically, the one
used by PAM) for getting a uid-0 process (hence a process w/
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:52:59PM +0100, victor wrote:
I'm trying to get my head round how rainbow works and there is one
thing I cannot figure out. Why is that the UIDs generated by rainbow
do not have the same resource access privileges as other UIDs as
set in limits.conf for pam? If I use a
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 09:14:47PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
Michael,
I detect a disconnect.
The disconnect is that Victor has neither explained what syscalls he
wants to be able to make nor posted his patch to limits.conf. Until he
does one of these things, I am unable to help him.
Michael
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:31:11AM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
On Aug 13 2008, at 03:27, Ricardo Carrano was caught saying:
But the important result is that collaboration does not seem to be
working in infra mode. Irrespective of the filter status, no icon is
being presented in the mesh view of
This is just a small note to announce that, per our decision in today's
software status meeting, I have inhibited OHM's idlesuspend behavior in
joyride in preparation for the 8.2.0 release. You can remove this
inhibition by enabling the 'automatic power management' option in the
Sugar Control
Folks,
We began considering joyride-2294 for this week's beta selection process
this morning and, this evening, Joe discovered some interesting hangs on
laptops running the sugar activity updater. We believe that these hangs
may be correlated with wireless activity and with the onset of
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 01:11:04PM +0200, riccardo wrote:
Do you have any idea for redrawing less often?
what do you mean ?
Think of the way that terrain based games use level-of-detail
computations (LoD) to figure out which portions of the screen need to be
updated. Think of the use of
Dear devel@,
Apologies for the tardy reminder. We'll be meeting, as usual, in
#olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.net at 2:00 PM ET, (1800 UTC) today, to
discuss releasework and tomorrow to discuss ticket status.
Michael
___
Devel mailing list
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 01:23:07PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
I moved discussion back to http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7480 ,
including citing Morgan's objections quoted above and proposing a
solution.
Does anyone want to implement an email-trac gateway, like debian's
bug tracker has? That
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:21:11AM +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
It'd be ideal if activities using csound could take
advantage of this code, because it seems to help
performance. We could set up group permissions
for that in /etc/security/limits.conf
I'd be able to give you a better opinion
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:02:49PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 5:20 PM, riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:13 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:10 PM, riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Testcase:
Fill the journal with hundreds
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:13:14PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
Yeah, no C-level function takes an absurd amount of time. It's python
code that makes too much work than is really needed.
It's not python code proper; it's calling any sort of code and
performing any sort of I/O UNNECESSARILY. Think
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Bcc:
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, August 20, 2008 An
evening at One Laptop per Child]
Reply-To:
Hi folks. OLPC is going to host the Boston Linux and Unix User Group for
an evening of fun, sharing, and occasional moments of Linux
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:31:27PM +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
Hi all,
could someone explain to me what is user 10002 and why it does not
seem to take notice of /etc/security/limits.conf?
User 10002 is a temporary uid generated by Rainbow when it is asked to
launch your activity. The relevant
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:10:30AM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
The issues reported with the touchpad (#7788) are also a bit worrysome
but until we have a way to reproduce that can be reproduced on any laptop,
I'm not going to consider it a show stopper.
My concern is that we are see these reports
This is just a heads-up that Fedora's Koji system (and some other build
infrastructure) is temporarily down as a result of errors discovered or
introduced during routine maintenance. Please check
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/thread.html
for updates.
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:16:01PM -0400, Ton van Overbeek wrote:
For my testing for trac #7788 I want to switch from Update.1 to
joyride-2298 and vice versa
(using alternate boot).
After switching back from joyride-2298 to Update.1 most activities do
not start because
their home directory does
We are thrilled to announce a new test build, joyride-2301, valid until
Wednesday, August 20.
Please help test it according to the detailed instructions at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing
while we still have time to fix issues you might find!
Our specific interest this week
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 02:13:28PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
We don't have a duplicate of Koji we can use? How wrong is that!
We talked about it but Dennis argued passionately that
a) creating our own koji instance would be additional infrastructure
that we can ill-afford to maintain
Martin,
Thanks for your note. Unfortunately, it left me with more questions than
with answers. Some questions include:
* What use cases are you trying to support?
* What threats obstruct supporting those use cases?
* What trust structure are you trying to create and how does it
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:28:40AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
The next major feature release after 8.2.0 is called 9.1.0.
FYI An overview of release names, status and schedules is at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Releases
That webpage says what the releases are - I wish it said more about
Martin,
Thanks for your note. Unfortunately, it left me with more questions than
with answers. Some questions include:
* What use cases are you trying to support?
* What threats obstruct supporting those use cases?
* What trust structure are you trying to create and how does it
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 04:08:53PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
- Filling up on the disk -- log of one test using the journal,
copying large files from usb drives. XO behaves mostly normal (with
Browse and chat) up to 10M free (df -f says 11M free). At that point:
- Opening Write fails with
101 - 200 of 474 matches
Mail list logo
