Hi Kim -
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Secondly, I am proposing that our Support team can only support one
major release along with the current one. With school systems being
run on yearly basis, this would suggest that we plan for 2 major
releases per
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:29 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two releases per year make sense. Particularly when add in the fact that
we have two hemispheres with opposing springs and falls.
Only if you assume we can get countries in lockstep with us. Any
number of things can
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As Kim stated earlier, in the end this becomes a cost of effort issue.
From a developer point of view the more releases the better. From a
support perspective maintaining several long releases can quickly suck
the energy
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 10:36 -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:29 PM, David Farning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two releases per year make sense. Particularly when add in the fact that
we have two hemispheres with opposing springs and falls.
Only if you assume we can
I've been thikning about update issues a bit and was wondering
if we have plans/processes in place to handle maintaince of multiple
releases?
My perception of our basic purpose is that we're in the business of
creating reference OSes which can be modified with OLPC support at
fixed points of
Deepak (and others interested in support),
This is a good question and we've talked about it from time to time.
The OLPC Support planning is really just now underway. We've made some
good progress on the Hardware side of support (spare parts, repair
centers, warranty, etc); and now we need some
2 releases per year is the right way to go. I can't imagine using more
than two XO releases per year, barring an important security or bug fix.
It is just too time consuming to test out a new release and more
importantly, train the teachers about any new features or anomalies.
I hope to update
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 15:02 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote:
Deepak (and others interested in support),
This is a good question and we've talked about it from time to time.
The OLPC Support planning is really just now underway. We've made some
good progress on the Hardware side of support (spare
Sounds great! We've discussed a similar thing here, but I don't
believe there has been any time for that.
For g1g1 people there could possibly be 2 options - 1. Upgrade from
656 to 8.1.1, with the automatic second step of adding activities; or
2. Cleanstall to the 8.1.1 build that already
On Jun 21 2008, at 20:10, Kim Quirk was caught saying:
Sounds great! We've discussed a similar thing here, but I don't
believe there has been any time for that.
For g1g1 people there could possibly be 2 options - 1. Upgrade from
656 to 8.1.1, with the automatic second step of adding
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