On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 17:56, Daniel Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/9/18 Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]>: >> Great, thanks for the kind offer. >> >> I think the effort is already underway, leaded by Fedora's Steven M. Parrish: >> >> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1 >> >> I also think that Martin Dengler is working on this as well, but I'm >> not sure how their work relates to each other. >> >> So testing seems like something that is needed, though I would like to >> know what is required in order to say that one of these builds is >> ready to be deployed somewhere. Maybe Steven, Daniel, Martin or others >> have already thought about this? Afterwards we can count the people >> interested in helping and maybe even write a tentative roadmap. > > I think the strongest requirement at this time is for developers. A > few things that spring to mind that need to be worked on:
So we are looking for these skills: > - Camera is not working That's kernel, Video4Linux driver? > - build scripts need to be modified to build "updatable" versioned > disk images again, so that olpc-update can start working (and the code > that supports this in the new initramfs will need to be tested/fixed) Advanced linux user skills? > - switch to ubifs for new installs (ok, not necessary, but this is so > easy it's worth doing -- all info is on the wiki) Advanced linux user skills? > - screen rotation is broken Kernel? X? > - mesh support needs finishing NetworkManager and/or Sugar? > - probably missed a few things > > I spoke with Chris and I think we'll be able to have a section on > OLPC trac to keep track of these things sometime now. Greg, Sean: any ideas about the best way to ask for help on these areas? I guess Fedora is our first stop and many people there already have XOs, but maybe there are other communities we should try to reach? Thanks, Tomeu -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
