One other note, from what I've observed in trac about Joyride 1551: apparently we may be in the reverse situation from before, with working WPA and broken WEP wireless encryption, though I haven't confirmed this first hand. Testing (and fixes!) gratefully accepted... - Jim
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 10:40 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote: > Update.1 > ======== > Update 1 is about to start the release process. Update.1RC1 is almost > ready (by sometime Monday I hope). > > The first order of business for everyone with code in the build should > be to go through closed bugs for Update.1 and verify they are fixed > (you've been wondering what the little checkbox was for, haven't you) > that they are fixed in the Update.1 build. Please also close bugs that > you've fixed, but forgotten to close. > > Suspend and resume is turned on (on MP systems); this will be ongoing > work to improve into the indefinite future. See this as a work in > progress. Suspend and resume will only operate fully on mass production > machines, since prototypes had hardware problems. On B4's, the plan for > RC1 is to allow manual sleep (momentary push of the power button will > suspend the machine), though that is not in Joyride 1551. > > Rainbow security is enabled. The Web browser has been updated to use > the technology in Firefox 3 Beta 2, which is significantly faster and > better at memory usage. Innumerable bugs have been fixed. Performance > is significantly improved. Memory and file leakage of the system is > reduced. > > Update.1RC1 > ----------- > Joyride 1551 is very, very close to Update.1RC1's contents, though has > some additional activities we do no plan to ship in Update.1 bundled on > the base system. Those developers of you who read this over the weekend > before the Update.1RC1 build is available please make sure to update to > the the new firmware version (Q2D09), which is necessary to fix a number > of key bugs for suspend and resume. We hope the firmware process will be > automated in the real Update.1RC1 build. > > RC2 will pick up additional translations and key bug fixes that missed > RC1. The community is working to complete the Spanish translation, which > was not complete by the string freeze date due to the holidays. There > will therefore be a refresh of packages to complete the translations. > Activity developers should only be picking up translations (and fixes > for approved bugs). > > RC3 is intended to pick up critical bug fixes discovered during testing, > and is the first candidate that is a real candidate for widespread > release. We'll do an RC4 if necessary. > > Testing > ======= > Joyride will be reopened for the start of Update.2 development later > this week just after Update.1RC1 is available. > > As soon as RC1 is available, we will start a testing cycle: > o suspend/resume cycling for reliability. During the run up to > mass production the hardware/firmware was found to be able to reliably > suspend/resume at least 50,000 cycles (the length of the tests we were > willing to tolerate). We need to ensure there are not software or > firmware regressions in this area. > o scaling tests - we need to ensure sane behavior of the systems > in circumstances such as 300 children resuming their laptops all at once > in the morning. > o verification of power use in different use states, on our > power measurement systems. > o wireless driver testing and upgrade testing > o testing with the school server software > o application testing: Kim Quirk has been hard at work with others on > getting together test plans for core applications. > > Those with blocking issues or who can help with them should stay focused > on those tasks, and the first order of business is for everyone to go > through their fixed bugs and *verify* they are fixed. > > Thank you all for your hard work! Many children all over the world > benefit immensely from your dedication > > - Jim > > -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar