On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Robert Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scott,
Attached is my summary of bugs fixed in 758, and (below) what to expect in
759:
Any chance of getting #3050 fixed? It's a simple matter of setting a
switch (see closed #654 for more discussion), was originally
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scott,
From Robert Myers:
S Page sent me this:
Browse 95 on 8.2-757 was working reasonably well for me. Today I
ran Software update and now Browse version 96 won't start:
AttributeError: 'module' object has
/*
%changelog
* Fri Sep 05 2008 C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 9-3.1
- OLPC-local changes.
* Wed Jun 25 2008 Jesse Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 9-3
- Add ia64 key
- Fix config file markings
- Stop using download.fedora.redhat.com in favor of download.fedoraproject.org
- Reference GPG keys by arch
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/xo-1/streams/8.2/build758
Changes in build 758 from build: 757
For more verbose changelogs, see:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://pilgrim.laptop.org/~pilgrim/xo-1/streams/8.2/build759
Changes in build 759 from build: 758
Again, full changelogs are at:
http://mock.laptop.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=repos;a=shortlog;h=koji.dist-olpc3-testing
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
On 9/3/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
Anyone here motivated to
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Carol Lerche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to /. the license includes:
By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a
perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license
to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate,
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:00:39PM -0400, Build Announcer v2 wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2382
Changes in build 2382 from build: 2381
Size delta: 0.00M
-etoys 3.0.2121-1
+etoys
2008/8/30 Niklaus Giger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi
I am a member of olpc-ch which is promoting OLPC in Switzerland.
See also http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ngiger. As I had
to customize manually 10 OLPCs to use German/Switzerland as language
for a presentation of OLPC to more than 100 children in
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 6:18 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:52 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do we need to do to get packages on the stable 8.2
2008/8/30 BlistovMHz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Can we turn faster back on with XFCE?
I'm spending more time installing/configuring XFCE under joyride, than I am
doing any real development.
I'm working on power management, specifically with regards to dynamic idle
suspend times based on user input vs
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do we need to do to get packages on the stable 8.2 branch?
That's a good question. I assume we use the process we used for 8.1,
which is that you create a trac bug naming the exact package you want
and the
2008/8/28 BlistovMHz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Faster has been unmaintained since Koji puked. Is this coming back up, or
being deprecated in favor of Joyride?
Its been suggested that someone may have simply forgot to turn it back on :)
'Faster' is always a short-lived experimental branch. It was
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we're trying to get the XS to reply to the activation requests from
the XO. The service is listening on 172.18.0.1:191 which is what the
non-activated laptops are trying.
The laptop, however, picks an address in the
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:40 PM, John Maloney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What's wrong with just making the directory Scratch.activity/Projects
writable by the world?
It's not officially supported. Other than being a way for activities
to leak data past Bitfrost protections, in a future release
Scratch appears to require manual editing of the Scratch.ini file in
order to come up in a language other than English. Is there any way I
can pass a command-line option in bin/scratch-activity to set the
Language preference based on the value of $LANG? I'd prefer that we
not have to ship a
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Bobby Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/joyride/build2346
Changes in build 2346 from build: 2344
Size delta: 0.00M
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Douglas Bagnall wrote:
In the course of making an activity server for the XS, I have looked
at the activity.info files of 114 bundles from
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities. One (Berkeley Logo) turned out
not
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Discussing the activity installer/updater control panel and
olpc-update (a few days before) one design assumption from the XO team
was very strong: that network clients on the XO could just ignore the
XS and attempt
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:39 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Again, it seems like you need an offline DNS solution. Many legacy
applications will assume they can resolve a DNS name to an address; it
seems best to let them do this.
Incidentally, http://wiki.laptop.org/go
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. Saving of files:
Scratch does not use the Journal, it uses the regular filesystem.
Rainbow prevents Scratch from saving in usual locations. So, Scratch
ships with a world-writable Projects directory underneath the
On Sun, Feb 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM, John Maloney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am porting Scratch to the XO. (Scratch is an easy-to-learn
[...]
Scratch includes commands to play notes and trigger drum sounds. On
Windows and Mac OS, these commands use the underlying OS MIDI
synthesizer. On the XO,
In http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8166 there's a problem reported: Peru
can't save their work in Scratch, because Scratch tries to write to
Scratch.activity/Projects, and this is not writable. Luckily, there
is an easy workaround: the directory $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/data is
persistent storage which
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HTTPS has many problems. None of the basic XO protocols use HTTPS.
Will we never care for end-user privacy?
We do. We just don't use HTTPS. You should know better.
- At the protocol layer you mask a whole
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Network principles is a nice statement of desired ideal network
topology. Which we may implement one day - but I am delivering a
network topology and the _main source of XO services_ on a very tight
timeframe and with
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Disconnected_operation is
a principled means to substitute unavailable resources in the offline
case.
The solution you suggest has problems, and I mentioned them in my
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... found that people are using
'org.laptop' as a prefix incorrectly (if everyone uses org.laptop as a
prefix, then OLPC loses the ability to assign unique names in this domain).
Undoubtedly people who are dbus
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
bobby wrote:
it's helpful, but could be better. how should i, an individual
contributor with no particular domain that i own or belong to,
construct a name? the given example of com.redhat.Sugar.BrowserActivity
isn't much of a
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HTTPS has many problems. None of the basic XO protocols use HTTPS.
Will we never care for end-user privacy?
We do. We just don't use HTTPS. You should know better.
- At the protocol layer you mask a whole
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Network principles is a nice statement of desired ideal network
topology. Which we may implement one day - but I am delivering a
network topology and the _main source of XO services_ on a very tight
timeframe and with
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Network_principles#Disconnected_operation is
a principled means to substitute unavailable resources in the offline
case.
The solution you suggest has problems, and I mentioned them in my
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:16 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cerebro is running there for some reason (I've seen it in another bug
report already). I can't reproduce on a clean 2328 joyride, not sure
if it has been fixed or something weird is going on.
Cerebro is enabled in
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 5:17 AM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's fixed in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q2e14.
Thanks for the hint! Shame that I didn't know earlier...
Incidentally, the workaround was
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Noticed that idle suspend was enabled again in recent joyrides.
pgf replied that this was intentional since we now have a revived 8.2
build stream.
But I have not seen any announcement yet on branching/freezing etc.
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... but 8.2-756 is our best stable
candidate so far. Michael (the release manager) will presumably
announce it as such after we do our usual local QA ...
Unfortunately 756 appears to have screwed up some sort of
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:45 AM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 8:17 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've made build 754 on the stable 8.2 stream, resynchronized to
joyride-2313. (See http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/8.2-joyride.html)
I've just
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:31 AM, victor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks everyone for their quick and comprehensive responses.
Some more information on the correspondence between names and release
numbers can be found at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes
and
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 Aug 2008, at 02:53, Ricardo Carrano wrote:
I am reading a ticket (7967) that reports tests based on joyride 2302.
But this version did not seem to be released (from 2301 it jumps to
2311).
What am I missing?
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The other change we could consider would be to rev the isolation spool
version number from 1 to 2 in Rainbow and in the Datastore. There is a
small risk that other people might have hardcoded the
'/home/olpc/isolation/1'
There haven't been joyride build announcements, because there haven't
been (successful) joyride builds, because RedHat's koji system has
been down.
Koji came up for a while yesterday (it seems to be down again today)
and I pulled all the packages on the olpc-dist3 branch locally. I've
now
I've made build 754 on the stable 8.2 stream, resynchronized to
joyride-2313. (See http://dev.laptop.org/~bert/8.2-joyride.html)
In addition, I've made the following stable-build-stream-only changes:
- Fixup /etc/fedora-release so that yum works properly (trac #4264, #7398)
- Disable X shared
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:27 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, in the meantime, we have raw rpmbuild, mock (which needs to be
configured not to use Fedora's koji, but this is not so hard), our own
buildroot (probably hidden away somewhere on weka.laptop.org), and the
joyride
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
I've revived and turned the crank on the 8.2 branch in preparations
for forking a stable stream from joyride. The build announcers will
probably shortly announce build 753, which should be more-or-less
identical to the latest joyride. You can try it out with:
# olpc-update 8.2-753
Although I
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 14 Aug 2008, at 22:48, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
Trac #7733. I am annoyed as well.
As someone on the activity side of the fence, I like warnings, I have a
[...]
+10 for warnings.
Just to be clear, I'm not annoyed
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:22 AM, S Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not to pick on him, but Erik Garrison wrote:
I have built a customization key for use by Perú immediately following
provisional testing.
...
The key is comprised of the previously shipped Perú activity pack and an
updated
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The activity updater seems to take lots of time when accessing large
Activities (e.g., the Firefox.xo file in the repository). It also
produces LOTS of 'WARNING:' messages about the Activity bundles I
*have* installed
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday when running software-update from the control panel on
joyride-2280
Firefox showed up.
It is a port of Firefox 3 to the XO by C Scott Ananian:
(http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/firefox-activity
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 would help a lot when discussion veers off into
email.
--scott
--
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Gary Oberbrunner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Build Announcer v2 wrote:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build2289
Hi folks; is there still a difference between faster and joyride? I
thought they got merged a while ago. ?
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A nice gateway would work by filtering emails with some flag in their
subject line, e.g. [TRAC #7480]. Is this how debian's bug tracker does
implements the gateway UI?
rt works like that. Debian's bug tracker uses a new
Please send me sugar logs for any activity update control panel
failures, along with details on what activity it was attempting to
download at the time. Please be sure you are using joyride-2266 or
later, and that you have suspend turned off.
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Walter Bender [EMAIL
As it turns out, the activity update control panel needs to inhibit
suspend, too, otherwise we go to sleep in the middle of downloading
large activities (Firefox, TamTam, etc).
Chris, could you make a little wiki page explaining how to interact w/
ohm via dbus to temporarily inhibit suspend, and
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For instance - the XO has been sitting there for a minute or more
(in Terminal). I want to key in a command, so I start typing.
Nothing changes. I do *NOT* know if my XO is alive or dead.
Suddenly (after one or more
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:30 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please don't forget to think about what 'idle' means.
Chris Ball is the power guru; if you can come up with a succinct test
that ohm can do to determine if there is 'real work' going on that
should inhibit idle, I'm sure
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:01 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More to the point, I perform a number of actions as part of
installing a new build. Lately, if I forget to first set
'inhibit-idle-suspend', the XO is __suspending__ on me while
performing downloads (via yum) of modules
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:16 -0400, jean piche wrote:
If you are interested in doing this yourself, here is my approximate
plan of action:
1. Test all the builds on latest joyride by installing manually
2. Read the specs
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Problem: anything named Journal, Terminal, Log, or Analyze is not
isolated. This is the biggest security hole we have right now: it is a
trivial way for any activity to get root access.
Another possible short-term
2008/8/1 Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://xs-dev.laptop.org/~cscott/olpc/streams/faster/build2242
I've unretired the faster branch temporarily to collect some
measurements on the costs of adding xfce to our builds. I also added
some patches from my local git to sugar-artwork for
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:57 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/8/1 Build Announcer v2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I also added
some patches from my local git to sugar-artwork for #7641 (fixing some
broken icons in xfce) and to sugar for #7495 and #7685 for my own
testing
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone whose activities use Numerical arrays in Python should check that
they still work in +. If anything is broken, I'll be happy to help
fix it. The only Activity I am sure needs to be checked is Measure.
I
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The sugar-is-lame string comes from a value that activities are
required to provide, even when the value is of no use. Activity
authors are being forced to provide a random string that is of no
use to the activity, so of
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Martin Langhoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
9 - Always boots up, especially when there is no space on NAND
Always is a tricky one :-) - might be useful to focus on specific issues
- boots even with no space on NAND to a mode that allows
user-controlled file
2008/7/25 Martin Dengler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:10:21AM -0400, Chris Marshall wrote:
For a lot of applications, using the 3D framework with the simpler
geometries and more image-oriented, a software OpenGL can be quite
acceptable.
Forgive the uninformed question, but
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Ton van Overbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just FYI. Tried to boot both joyride-2207 and joyride-2210 (the
devel-ext3 variant) on
qemu (on win XP/SP2) but both fail with the same error:
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/sri/swrast_dri.so failed
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i've been slowly moving my g1g1 machine forward to joyride (from 656).
i had customized it quite a bit, and am trying to restore those changes.
i've got xfce running, but a couple of yum dependencies (which were fine
with F7) are
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
really surprisingly short. Each item on the list has been debated to a
stationary point over the last two years, so all that is left is to make a
final decision for the engineers to execute. Each task could be
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:20 AM, riccardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Is there already a facility for automated tests ?
(tinderbox + some-X-tool ?)
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tinderbox
More tests wanted!
--scott
--
( http://cscott.net/ )
___
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 9:36 PM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
security wizard at OLPC removed that recommendation from the Wiki
page, thus leading to your current troubles.
If Mikus had followed your suggestion, we would not have found this
(legitimate) bug. Thank you, Mikus.
It's
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are two issues here that we should be sure to not intertwingle:
1) whatever behavior Sugar may have when low/out of space, during
operation, or at boot time.
A number of independent issues here:
a) the initscripts
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:55 PM, David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#6480 is fixed as of yesterday, should be in next joyride.
Yeah. Since it was purely cosmetic I figured it might as well just wait
to come through 'naturally'.
It's not purely cosmetic: in my testing the bogus
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:39 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A number of independent issues here:
I have edited http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7125 to clarify the pieces
of this bug and to make the component tasks (including #5317) more
obvious. I have *not* attempted to set
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sugar - 0.81.6-4.20080715git8137d5c37f.fc9.i386: Insufficient space
in download directory
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
b) sugar should, ideally, start even if flash is full. It is
currently failing when writing to ~olpc/.boot_time or some such, and
crashing.
In olpc-utils: usr/bin/olpc-session. This was done for performance
testing
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:57 PM, John Watlington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It seems like we should be able to produce a upgrade and
customize key that does this in one step, and preserves the
activation key for the laptop.
Yes. The issues in the past have just been coordination-related. I
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I am running a joyride build on that system. This whole
business of what indicators need to be placed where is a complete
mystery to me. That is why I use a permanent SD card, with my
develop.sig on that card --
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:27 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hope our alert system will use the freedesktop.org standard:
http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/index.php
It is widely used
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I agree that this is a goal that makes a lot of sense.
Unfortunately, my experience says that the approach you are suggesting
won't be less work than what we are doing right now, because the
software components you
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:44 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:27 AM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I
2008/7/15 Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If you have a better idea of how Glucose should handle these issues, please
share it. Simplifying assumptions are good, even if they're not 100% valid.
Versions in activity.info files are either plain integers, or
RPM-standard version strings,
2008/7/14 Kim Quirk [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
3 - Encourage schools to completely reflash (cleaninstall) their laptops
each year. At the end of the school year, you save away kids data (hopefully
that is done automatically) and you do a cleaninstall of the next year's
image; retest all the latest
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
when that button is pressed. The problem with this design, of course,
is that it exposes the email in a place where spammers can easily find
Yes, that is life in the 200x's. Every major package management
system has this
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 11:35 -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
Is there anything else in the 8.2.0 release which will improve
responsiveness of the XO in general?
I think the new X server in the distro upgrade is supposed to launch
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Another option is to provide a one-time flag passed at file
creation time (O_CREAT) to enable/disable compression. This would
also require VFS changes but I think would be simpler; however,
this case has the
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Another option is to provide a one-time flag passed at file
creation time (O_CREAT) to enable/disable compression. This would
also require VFS
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM, NoiseEHC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Currently I am profiling/rewriting the LZO decompression code.
Again, be warned that there's no guarantee we will ever use LZO
compression. The plan of record is to disable compression on selected
files instead. That's not to
2008/7/14 Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There was an extensive discussion on this topic a while back on IRC, which I
unfortunately don't have a record of. There was also mention of this in the
mailing lists not too long ago, initiated by
Morgan:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They don't get it? Or they don't get how a single integer is supposed to be
sufficient, and therefor use their own methods? Do you have examples of
specific random and bogus strings we can look at to see what's been tried?
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:32 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, there's nothing saying that this has to be a particular person's
email address. It could be a list, or a mailinator account, or pass
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure this satisfies me. It might accurately handle the use case of
updating when upgrading, assuming that activity developers are very careful
to add extra info about compatibility into the .info file. It doesn't
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My suggestion is to use names of famous pedagogues as code names. I
suggest we call this one Freire for Paulo Freire
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire)
Any other votes or code name suggestions?
Well, I'm not sure
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
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They could be made available on a web site instead, or we could aim at
integrating log with trac.
GNOME, for example, has bug-buddy which reports crashes to bugzilla.
The goal from the beginning has been to
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Jameson Chema Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I agree with almost everything jquinn said, except for the use of ':'
to delimit version numbers. Like it or not, the rest of the software
world uses
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:51:20PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:00 PM, NoiseEHC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a partially finished ZLIB decompression code as well. mstone
just
told me that
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think this is still a whole bunch clearer than trying to convince someone
that version 5 is newer than version 10! (where 10 is a bugfix release to
what used to be version 4.)
You're undercutting your own points: what
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Martin Langhoff
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Version numbers are used to communicate API/ABI compat and degree/type
of changes to users. Later in this thread Eben suggests what everyone
else in the industry is using: major.minor - sounds good to me. Even
better -
The general solution to this problem is trac #4951, the activity
updater, which I've landed recently. Trac #7495 says that the first
boot after an upgrade should open the activity updater, so that a
version of the activity compatible with the new OS can be installed if
necessary. The activity
Please bump the version number for the 8.2 series to 720 or 750 so
that we maintain a consistent numbering for stable series builds.
Commit e2edf07ed3249b6b639c8f3102198d3ffa2654b2 should also be
reverted in the 8.2 branch, as it is only appropriate for joyride.
(We used to maintain a strict
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