ear world,
We're FREEZING OUR FEATURE-SET THIS WEEK, which means that features targeted at
the 8.2.0 release should be IN A JOYRIDE BUILD BY THIS SUNDAY, JULY 6TH. If the
outlines of your feature aren't
a) in Joyride by the end of the week, [1]
b) documented in a release contract in [2]
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:05:46AM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> > 3. Why do we care whether there's a devkey? We would actually be better
> > off checking that all the RPMs we're installing are owned by uid 0,
> > this being the exact privilege that we're attempting to safeguard.
>
> becau
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 04:58:33PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> + yum -yt --nogpgcheck install $pkgs
1. As an earlier commenter hinted, you want localinstall because
otherwise yum may try to talk to the network in order to download its
header cache and to look for ne
As discussed last week, we are meeting publicly from 2 - 4PM EDT (1600-1800
UTC), tomorrow, Tuesday July 1, to discuss the release plan for 8.2.0.
The meeting will be held in the "Boardroom" at 1CC, on Line #2 (from the
United States: 866-213-2185 access code: 1671650#), and on irc.freenode.org in
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 03:11:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> +datestamp = subprocess.Popen(['date', '-u', '+%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M'],stdout=PIPE
> + ).communicate()[0]
> +# comes with newline - rstrip() will chomp it
> +datestamp = datestamp.rstrip()
A common Python eq
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 02:19:09PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Care to explain the existence and functioning of olpc-configure?
>
> olpc-configure exists because /home/olpc is not managed by
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:31:36AM -0400, Edgar Ceballos wrote:
> Michael:
>
> The instructions on the Wiki are not very clear. I want to be able to
> accomplish two things with the 230 laptops for the Marina Orth school:
>
> 1- Upgrade image from 623 to 703
>
> 2- Install all the ext
Bryan,
Thanks very much for the detailed feedback. Here are my comments:
> 1) Be able to remove activities to free up space, including activities
> that come pre-installed.
Noted. Can you or Bernie supply a patch which accomplishes the desired
behavior? If someone can come up with a halfway dec
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 01:09:58PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> Yes, exactly: olpc-update has been designed so that the need for those
> scripts is *zero*. You get a clean install every time, guaranteed.
Care to explain the existence and functioning of olpc-configure?
Michael
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:23:44PM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote:
> 0) Who are you and who do you directly work for?
Michael Stone, and Kim Quirk, respectively.
> 1) What do you build?
Typically, rainbow, olpc-utils, puritan, and full OS builds.
Occasionally, other things like sugar, X, xul
Yesterday, Sayamindu, Jim, Chris, Eben, Dennis, and I met to discuss
what technology we could provide to improve the experience of producing
and consuming translations and other localization data on the XO.
We sought to address three questions:
1) How can we make "some" (then "every") string tra
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:50:34PM -0400, Erik Garrison wrote:
> Existing package managers (e.g. apt, rpm) do exactly what we want and
> more. Furthermore they are extensively tested and well documented. Why
> have we locally manufactured and promoted the square wheels of
> olpc-update and copy-n
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 01:24:22PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Tomeu has a good question:
>
> "Can we close a ticket once we have verified it's fixed in joyride and
> we don't have yet stable builds for 8.2.0?"
No, because fixing the issue in joyride does fix the issue for ou
> Oh obviously you also need to change back /etc/X11/prefdm to run gdm.
It wouldn't hurt us much to bias prefdm so that it runs gdm if it exists
and our stuff otherwise.
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 01:31:24AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 4. People should indicate the release they _wish_ that changes would
> > land in via the Milestone field.
>
> I
Dear world,
In yesterday's software status meeting, we formulated some conventions
for using Trac for the next few months. They are:
1. The release team - presently including me, Greg Smith, and Kim Quirk
will occasionally tag a ticket as 'blocks:8.2.0' to indicate that it
blocks the 8.2.0
Edgar,
According to the release notes:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_8.1.0_Software_Release_Notes
official-703 is a reference OS release which contains no activities.
Luis needs to follow the instructions in that page to install activities
or he needs to install a derivative build such as
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:53:47AM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
> Am 26.06.2008 um 01:22 schrieb John Gilmore:
>
> >> The activity start script should configure Opera to put its
> >> configuration file in $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/data instead of
> >> $HOME/.opera. Also it should set umask to 0002
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:01:04PM +0200, Morgan Collett wrote:
> I asked Dennis about branching salut, and he recommended we try keep
> everything in F-9 if possible. Is it feasible to put the rainbow
> specific patches in such that they are enabled with a runtime option,
> if built with --enable-
Dear friends,
Let's welcome Scott home from his vacation by describing all the easy
bugs that we squashed in his absence and all the really nasty bugs that
we couldn't solve without him.
Michael
P.S. - We're going to start regular release status meetings in addition
to the Wednesday "development
Dear Dennis & devel,
I rebuilt rainbow & olpc-utils. olpc-utils underwent a relatively
exciting merge wherein I combined patches from several contributors.
I've diffed the resulting RPM against olpc-utils-0.73.2 and I think it
will work, but I haven't tested it yet.
Also, I built rainbow in F-9
We have an activity that wants superuser privilege in order to poke
kernel memory.
The real questions we should be attempting to address here include:
* Who is granting privilege to this activity?
* How are they doing so?
* How should we record the decision?
- My tentative answer is that
> -rainbow 0.7.13-1.olpc2
> +rainbow 0.7.5.11.20080104git6c25f7-1.olpc2
What's with the major rainbow regression?
Michael
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Dear OLPC & Fedora folk:
In response to conversation at Fudcon, I've thrown up OLPC's packaging
wishlist at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WishList#OLPC_Wishlist
OLPC folks: please check to make sure that your work is listed. Also,
please assist Fedora volunteers in any way
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 04:32:24PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Actually - can anyone confirm that their owner.key
> (~/.sugar/default/owner.key) is mode 600 or 400? As per my earlier
> email (below), I keep finding boxes with the wrong filemode...
Best examine olpc-configure; it regularly medd
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:35:02PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there is now a sugar desktop profile in Debian Edu, it doesnt really work
> yet,
> but its there :)
>
> (Debian Edu modifies the debian installer so that you can choose between 4
> (or
> 6, in expert mode) profiles whic
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 03:38:25AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Make sense. Wonder why Michael has been using the rel- prefix?
I attached the 'rel-' prefix because I think it very likely that we're
going to invent o
> 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 poi
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:54:44PM -0400, Kim Quirk wrote:
> Can we use a combination of milestones and tagging?
Seems like a fine idea to me.
> Maybe the milestone represents the desired location of the feature,
> and the tags represent current expectations as to whether it can make
> one relea
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:35:33PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I began wishing that I could meaningfully differentiate between the
> > "Future release" and non-existent "Next release" components.
Because we are
Apologies for the confusion.
Michael
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:45:22AM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> Do you mean today?
Yes, apologies. I'm on autopilot.
Michael
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Hey folks,
My sincere apologies for the short notice. If you're around, please join
us at the usual time and place: #olpc-meeting on irc.freenode.org for
our software status update.
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Dear Daf & Guillaume,
I read through Guillaume's 'activity' branch a few days ago and recorded
several comments which I'd like to forward to you. I hope they help.
* Thanks for the nice documentation linked to from
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Gadget
I really appreciate the effor
Sjoerd and I started dissecting our NM-0.6 divergence so that we can
begin porting that necessary pieces of that divergence to NM-0.7.
Several highlights from our reading of two important files follow.
NM-specific terminology is /emphasized/.
nm-device-802-11-mesh-olpc.c [1] contains:
* A nice
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:00:58AM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> I don't plan on doing much more with this until I can get
> speech-dispatcher installed and working on my XO.
Hemant - how would you describe your progress on packaging
speech-dispatcher?
I've seen lots of traffic on
https://bu
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 08:06:04AM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
I believe that you are correct that the URLs in /etc/yum.repos.d/olpc*
are incorrect for our F-9 work.
Dennis?
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Marco, Dennis, and I talked this afternoon and evening about how to
arrange our Koji tags for the 8.2.0 release. Assuming no serious
objections are raised by either you or the Fedora infrastructure and
release-engineering teams, we will take the OLPC-3 [1] CVS branch,
freeze the dist-olpc3 tag, and
I promised regular status reports on our release work and I've been lax
in writing them. Here are my current thoughts on the content of and
risks associated with our second ("August") 2008 release, 8.2.0. These
assesments are heavily based on current rates of improvement and
available labor. (I'm s
I got curious about how NM-0.7 works so I installed it on olpc3-17 by:
sed -i -e '6s/enabled=0/enabled=1/' /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo
iwconfig eth0 mode managed essid 'media lab 802.11'
killall dhclient
dhclient eth0
yum -yt --nogpgcheck update NetworkManager
/etc/init.d/NetworkMana
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:36:11PM +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> On 11.06.2008, at 14:05, Jim Gettys wrote:
>
> > My memory is that you may have one of the two known access point types
> > with which we have problems, due to the chip/firmware used in that
> > access point (note the pre-N design
---
olpc-session |9 +++--
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/olpc-session b/olpc-session
index 2e3a4b7..280f4be 100755
--- a/olpc-session
+++ b/olpc-session
@@ -23,14 +23,19 @@ LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
XKB_LAYOUT="us"
# We need to stop loading of certain GTK Input
A while ago, Walter mentioned that we'd like to be able to customize things
like keyboard and internationalization settings. These settings are loaded by a
program called 'olpc-session' maintained in the olpc-utils package.
Unfortunately, when I set out to implement support for this feature, I
di
Note the return to original time: 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM UTC.
Let's chat about G1G1 and our goals for August. Please reply with any
other topics that are on your mind.
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:06:17AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I still don't understand what's in the path to integrate cerebro into
> > sugar. You proposed to change the API and of course you were asked to
> > j
Dear world,
I'm pleased to announce that our first signed release candidate for the
8.1.1 bugfix release is now available for downloading and updating.
Please help test it by
1. Procuring activities if you need them. See the release notes for
details.
and ONE OF
2a. olpc-update -f candid
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:18:10PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> I would argue otherwise. Since Sugar has no control over the
> robustness of the network, having some way of sharing at a basic level
> from the Journal is seemingly a high priority.
My feeling is that since Sugar has no control ove
Tomeu,
> have heard occasional requests to implement the sending and sharing of
> journal entries.
It's a desirable feature but, from my perspective, it's much lower in
immediate priority than work which brings the sugar UI revision into a
releasable condition and which "polish" the existing work
Jim pointed out that he shouldn't be owning the default trac component
so we made a new one called 'not assigned' to contain bugs which have
never been assigned to a component. Bugs which require that a new
component be created can be assigned to the 'new component' component or
can be left 'not as
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 09:55:20AM +0200, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
> Latest Salut release has a new Avahi abstraction layer (see #6658).
> It's still unclear if Cerebro should be integrated as an Salut backend
> or in its own connection manager though.
What lack of clarity do you observe?
Fro
I'm ready to make 708 into a release candidate for our 8.1.1 bug-fix
release. If you're willing, could you please complete the relevant
sections of
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_SW-ECO_5_Checklist
so that we may sign 708 and publish it for broader testing?
Thanks,
Michael
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 05:14:34PM -0400, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> IcedTea requires >=512 MB RAM to compile. I don't see a minimum
> memory requirement for using it.
>
> So yes, if you can find a compilation environment for me for it... I'd
> like to create an rpm which I could install on a current
I believe that Pilgrim removes /sbin/mkinitrd.
Ramdisks contain several kernel modules in a /lib hierarchy. When the
kernel name changes, the /lib inside the ramdisk needs to be updated.
You can do this manually with cpio, find, gzip/zcat, and with the kernel
modules installed by the kernel RPM.
This email is intended to clarify a few facts about Update.1 for the
record so that I can rest more peacefully at night and so that we,
collectively, can move on to new business:
1. The Update.1 build is official-703, available from
http://download.laptop.org/xo-1/os/official/703/
We st
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 at 14:28:53 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> I think that it should be better to do a proper release first.
Done. License info, README, and tarball-creation Makefile added. See the
stub homepage at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-netutils
for the gory details.
Thanks again,
Mi
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:16:50PM -0400, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> If I wanted to create a report, who should I contact? One of the Trac
> admins? Who are the Trac admins? Where is an up-to-date list of Trac
> admins kept?
JG, Noah, me, and Scott can do it for you, among others.
> Is the underlyi
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:50:30PM -0400, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> > A related issue is when people loudly insist that "OLPC" solve their
> > personal problem *right now*. Again, we have tens of thousands of
> > machines in the field now, and thousands more every day. You
> > personally may care a
Dov,
First, please file a ticket that sugar fails to start up if /home/olpc
is empty/missing. Please CC at least mstone and marco on it.
Next, put your /home back in place and try to start Sugar. If you're
successful, then go to the list view and click some of the stars so that
they become filled
Shipping G1G1 machines with NAND reflash locks enabled makes little
sense to me. What good is protection against malicious reflash when any
attacker who can perform a reflash has physical access to the device and
has password-free root access in default configurations?
Instead, the justification t
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:54:13PM -0700, Ixo X oxI wrote:
> Great idea!
>
> I have some scripts, thoughts, and code I might be interested with
> contributing myself.
Then please show off your patches!
> Is there a start to a list of tools, what they do, and maybe even a
> 'request/want' list ?
able to include in OLPC's August software
release. Could anyone here spare a few hours to make appropriate Fedora
packages for this collection of scripts?
Thanks very much,
Michael Stone
P.S. - For people in the OLPC community who are not already familiar
with Fedora and the packaging proce
1. Project name : olpc-netutils
2. Existing website, if any : None
3. One-line description : OLPC-specific user-land network software.
4. Longer description : Yani's collection of network status displays.
5. URLs of similar projects : Unknown.
6. Committer list
Please
Martin Langhoff, our esteemed school-server architect asked us if we
could wake him up at 6:00 AM (in NZ) instead of 4:00 (AM). Can we
oblige?
Please note the new times:
4:00 PM EST, 2000 UTC.
I expect that we'll spend the bulk of our time discussing work toward
8.2.0, a.k.a. the August Releas
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:53:49PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
> In recent builds, any process running as user OLPC can execute code as
> uid 0 via the setuid-0 user-olpc-executable /usr/bin/sudo.
A small correction:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:58:07PM -0600, Jameson Chema Quinn wrote:
> > if you run everything as user olpc and user olpc can become root without a
> > password, getting olpc is as good as getting root.
>
> An arbitrary process running as user olpc should not be able to get root. My
> impression i
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:35:47PM -0400, Bill Mccormick wrote:
> I'm not completely sure of the etiquette here.
Where have you looked for signs of etiquette? (i.e. where can we put
hints that you would have found?)
> I'd like to update... anyone have a problem with this?
Be bold! If there's a
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 02:54:24PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My experience over the last few months has been that a centralized
> > unstable build stream is worth less than it costs
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 03:02:17PM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Relying on email and irc for this seems fragile to me. If a trac query
> would reveal the packages which are staged for inclusion in a certain
> release, it would be pretty much impossible that they go unnoticed.
>
> Marco
Th
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:15:07AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the sugar team built a new rpm to be included in the 8.1.1 release, see:
>
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-May/005935.html
>
> Should I enter a ticket or something?
Don't bother; this reminder email is fine -
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:44:07AM +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Claims
> > --
> >
> > I. There is no excuse for breaking centralized build streams that
> > others de
Folks,
Here's what I took away from the comments I received concerning my
transcript of my conversation with Marco and a few thoughts in
response. You should check my summary to see if I misunderstood you.
Regards,
Michael
Summary
---
Dennis:
To date, to our detriment, we have done de
Let's talk tomorrow about #7014, build 706 (which everyone ought to
test; olpc-update -f update.1-706), and what we should take away from
the fact that Blake and Ricardo were the only people who contributed
patches/packages for inclusion in our bugfix release.
Please reply to this mail with any ot
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 02:04:25PM -0400, Denver Gingerich wrote:
> Are these documented somewhere?
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/s1-rpmrc-file-rpmrc-file-entries.html
(Also occasionally useful:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch-creating-rpms.html)
Note: I'm given t
> >> Since I don't have root, the last command failed to build an RPM (it
> >> wants to put it in /usr/share/redhat/RPMS)
RPM is happy to build things in user-specified locations. You may be
particularly interested in the suite of rpmbuild path-setting options
including:
--define "_topdir=/foo
Marco and I (as well as Dennis and Bernie) had some long chats at the
beginning of this week about how to work together to pull of the next
release. At Marco's request, I've posted one important chunk of this
conversation at
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Commentaries/Releases_2
Please
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:50:17AM +0530, shivaprasad javali wrote:
> Hi.
>
> The app that i am trying to run must be run as super user for it to run
> properly. So i tried using su -c app_name in the shell script described in
> the link http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1555.0
>
>
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> it's not clear (to me) from the Build_system page linked above
> where the final contents of a give release is determined.
The determination is usually made by yum as it is run from pilgrim on
either xs-dev.laptop.org or pilgrim.laptop.
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:31:05PM +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> The changelog for olpc-utils is missing. Is it a bug in
> the script?
Seems likely to me since Koji printed the appropriate changelog
information after it built the RPM.
> Also, a version change from 0.68 to 0.73 seems a little
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:57:40PM +1200, Neil Graham wrote:
> I noticed today that my xo (newly 703) has cpp which while modest in size
> seems to launch /usr/libexec/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.2/cc1 which weighs in
> at 5.1Meg
rpm -q --whatrequires /usr/bin/cpp
rpm -qf /usr/bin/cpp
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 05:23:11PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> Also, I remain interested in pulling in other changes that close
> existing bugs. Please suggest some plausible changes. (I'll suggest a
> few myself in my next email).
Blake Setlow was the first to take me up on my o
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:23:18PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> At this stage, I am slowly hacking on ds-backup.py. My plan so far is to
Where can I find your code?
Thanks,
Michael
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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 07:54:46PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> --- officially ---
>
> According to tickets #6973 and #6945, 703 loads the wrong keyboard map
> for Haiti and inappropriately invokes GTK-IM for Ethiopia. It is
> proposed that we make a small bug-fix release to
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:58:38AM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> Step 5 did not work. I think you meant
> git tag -s -m 'Bump revision to 0.xx' v0.xx
Indeed, my mistake.
> I have submitted a Koji build request. Status at
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=611349
Thanks ver
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:32:49PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> for the olpc-utils package, before starting the build in Koji, do you
> want me to commit to dev.laptop.org Git and bump up the version, or do
> you want me to put the patch in Koji ? If you want me to commit to
> d.l.o Git first
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--- officially ---
According to tickets #6973 and #6945, 703 loads the wrong keyboard map
for Haiti and inappropriately invokes GTK-IM for Ethiopia. It is
proposed that we make a small bug-fix release to allow Haiti and
Mongolia to make effective use of their laptops with a 703-like build.
The US
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:12:08PM -0400, Kim Quirk wrote:
> Once the next step is figured out -- packaging, do we start a 704 build
> (based on 703) with just these fixes? Or do I test them out in a joyride
> first?
When they are created, I recommend that we ask Dennis to apply these
packages to
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:00:32PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
> I've often wanted the close-box to be in the Frame itself, so that there's
> a short and totally deterministic way to tell someone how to exit the
> current application.
Providing an obvious close-button outside of the activity is a g
Sayamindu,
Thanks for the awesome writeup. Do you feel comfortable enough with
Fedora packaging to take responsibility for providing 703-compatible
packages containing these changes?
Thanks,
Michael
Status fragment:
#6973 PKG ??? (Production problem: Haiti keyboard doesn't match
k
> > > Is the solution currently in joyride satisfactory for the August
> > release?
> >
> > Personally I think it's OK. It won't hurt to try to do better if we
> > have time obviously...
>
> Let me clarify. I think activities launch is OK. Stuff like frame
> responsiveness and activity switch
Available at a wiki near you:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Plan_of_Record-2008/Draft_3
The important changes since the last version include:
* simplified prose, care of Mitch
* a serious proposal for a stable release process for the next few months
* separation of release management thoughts
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 08:05:51AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> >
> > We can use Xkb/AccessX's "MouseKeys" accessibility feature to provide an
> > easy work-around for many of our touchpad problems. MouseKeys is easy to
>
> hi michael -- nice work. have you seen this thread on olpcnews?
> htt
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:29:51AM -0400, Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote:
Data Questions:
* Are the measurements used to make the display of 'distributions of
profile arrival rate vs. time' produced from timestamps of profile
arrival as recorded by all the laptops or by some smaller set of
Dear devel@,
We can use Xkb/AccessX's "MouseKeys" accessibility feature to provide an
easy work-around for many of our touchpad problems. MouseKeys is easy to
enable through xmodmap where, (on a handy B4), you do something like:
xmodmap -pke > old_map
xmodmap -e 'keycode 133 = Num_Lock Pointe
Gentlefolk,
It seems to me, upon a few hours' calm reflection that:
Bert - you leapt to some unfounded conclusions about the significance of
Dennis' work and he seems to have been hurt by the way you posed some of
your questions.
Scott - I don't need to bring the specter of drug abuse and mental
Mikus,
Thanks for trying out the olpc3 buildstream. As you can see, Dennis
Gilmore and I are experimenting with rebasing our software on top of
F-9. There are two current challenges:
1) upstart wants to be pid 1. We reserve pid 1 for our own use. We can
remove the conflict with a dirty hack, cont
Folks,
Let's spend an hour tomorrow at 2:00 PM (1400 EDT, 1800 UTC) describing
the tasks that we are presently working on and the technical
frustrations we are presently encountering or the progress that we have
recently made.
Thanks,
Michael
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Devel
Folks,
I've released a new rainbow, version 0.7.12 into Joyride in order to
solicit more widespread testing of some changes that I'd like to
incorporate into our next release. This version has some tasty things
like
- delayed rainbow startup (which will allow X to win the rainbow/X
startup r
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:39:31PM -0400, Bill Mccormick wrote:
> Yes I'm in Ottawa.
>
> I'm in the middle of getting a fedora 6 system setup with the source
> code etc. so I can build patches.
Please speak up if you need help finding or manipulating source code.
Also, we're happy to provide
Friends,
Over a month ago, Blake and I pieced together some software to turn on
PenTablet support. At Kim's and SJ's urging, I have prepared
http://teach.laptop.org/~mstone/fix-tablet.sh
which makes it a bit easier to install the relevant pieces. I believe it
will enable the PT on both 656 and
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