Deployment Team/Sugar-0.88 Notes
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Sugar 0.88 on Fedora 11 for the XO-1
F11-XO1-0.88 is a Sugar 0.88 distribution for the XO-1 jointly developed by Sugar Labs, Paraguay Educa and Activity Central, in collaboration with Plan Ceibal and members of the OLPC/Sugar community.
This development cycle will last only 2.5 months because we're targeting the winter school break of August 2010 for mass deployment in Paraguay. While there won't be time for new development, we'll try to merge a few relatively safe post-0.88 features contributed by other deployments and individuals.
Download
NAND images for the XO-1 are available here: http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/f11-xo1-0.88/
For unlocked laptops, you just need to download two files:
- osNNNpy.img
- osNNNpy.crc
Installation
Follow these installation instructions to flash your XO-1 with these images.
Testing
Besides community testing and field testing, we're planning to reuse and extend the OLPC test plan adopted in release 8.2.0 (aka os801): http://wiki.laptop.org/go/TestPlan_8.2.0
Feedback from the entire community is appreciated. Bugs belonging to upstream components should be filed in the usual trackers:
- Sugar and activities: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/
- Fedora 11: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
- Drivers and OLPC customizations: http://dev.laptop.org/
- Bugs specific to this build: http://trac.paraguayeduca.org/
Please, cc "bernie" on all bugs and kindly keep the table below updated (saves me some time).
Release schedule (TBD)
This is a quick proposal:
ETA | Phase | Description | Availability |
---|---|---|---|
Jun 10 | Alpha1 | Preview release for OLPC Realness Summit | in-house + community testers |
Jun 10 | Alpha2 | Feature-complete alpha release | In-house + community testers |
Jun 25 | Beta1 | No known regressions vs. Sugar 0.84 | One classroom in caacupe + 3 formadores |
Jul 15 | Beta2 | Passes 100% of test plan | One classroom in caacupe + 3 formadores |
Jul 25 | RC | Release candidate | One classroom in caacupe + 3 formadores |
Aug 1 | Release | Deployable stable release | Mass update |
Current Status
Regressions since 0.84
Status | Task | Owner |
---|---|---|
DONE: os215 | Frame does not always show up (with frame key or going to the corner) | |
DONE: os205 | Translation of "Dismount" is "Eliminar" | bernie |
DONE: os215 | Port-forward bugfix for race condition in activity title | bernie |
DONE: os215 | Port-forward 0.84 patch for GsmPalette.get_state() name clash | tch |
ALT-TAB does not switch between apps | ||
Browse: widgets in forms are 0x0 pixels (xulrunner bug?) | ||
Icons in activity circle are too small (DPI problem?) | jasg | |
Font size in Terminal too large (DPI problem?) | jasg | |
Username selection is being skipped on first boot | tch | |
DONE: os223 | Add back Write, eToys | bernie |
Laptop does not sleep when lid closed | tch | |
Sound breaks in all activities after using Record once (need Record v77) | dsd | |
UI of Record activity is garbled | m_anish | |
Sugar does not automatically associate with AP on startup | quozl? | |
DONE: os231 | Memorize does not start because it fails to import libxml2 | bernie |
DONE: os205 | Use es-lat for console keyboard | bernie |
Non-regression bugs (also present in Sugar 0.84)
Status | Task | Owner |
---|---|---|
Raul's bug about journal browser overlapping activities (sl#1999) | ||
Record activity cannot be quit with CTRL-W | m_anish | |
Sugar should restart/refresh after updating activities | tch | |
DONE: os205 | Keep -> Keep a copy (fold into stop menu) | jasg |
DONE: os240 | Dates of activities don't make any sense | bernie |
DONE: os240 | Pippy layout is broken | m_anish |
80% | Sugarized version of scratch | dirakx |
Cannot associate to AP with accented letters in SSID | carlos | |
DONE: os240 | Enable f11-xo1-0.88 yum repos for updates | bernie |
Mesh icons duplicated in Neighbor View on NM restart | dsd? | |
DONE: os240 | Split "freeworld" packages to a separate repository | bernie |
Review old bugs filed against F11-XO1-PY 0.84 | carlos |
New features
Status | Task | Owner |
---|---|---|
DONE: os205 | Switch power management from ohm to powerd | bernie |
DONE: os223 | Add StopWatch, Finance, JukeBox, ImageViewer, InfoSlicer | bernie |
Add Words (not on aslo) and GetBooks | sayamindu | |
Resurrect Rainbow support | mstone? | |
70% | Integrate journalmanagement extension | jasg |
80% | sl#2006: Merge touchpad patches from walter | bernie |
DONE: os223 | Journal size display | aa |
40% | Integrate Esteban's backup to USB/SD | tch |
50% | Integrate DCastelo's GSM bugfixes | tch |
Experimental features
Status | Task | Owner |
---|---|---|
DONE: os240 | experimental menu speedup patch | mstone (bernie) |
DONE: os240 | kill the MANIFEST file | bernie |
Using this build outside Paraguay
A few customizations make this image somewhat Paraguay-specific:
- Limited language support: to save space, we've included only English and Spanish translations.
- Image signed with the Paraguay deployment keys. Laptops from other regions need to be be unlocked in order to accept this image.
- The software update control panel icon checks for new activities on our wiki rather than on laptop.org.
- The Browse home page contains the Paraguay Educa logo and a few links to our website.
We may find the time to release slightly modified images to meet the needs of other OLPC deployments interested in upgrading to Sugar 0.88.
More importantly, we're happy to help other deployments produce their own OS images independently of us, thus exploiting the Freedom #1 offered by Free Software.
How to join development
- Build system source: http://git.paraguayeduca.org/gitweb/users/bernie/olpc-os-builder.git
- Out-of-tree patches for Sugar 0.88: http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/sugar/sugar-0.88-patches/
- Yum Repository containing our custom RPMs (along with sources):
- http://people.sugarlabs.org/bernie/olpc/pyeduca-repo/f11-xo1-sugar0.88/ (fast and reliable mirror)
- http://repo.paraguayeduca.org/f11-xo1-sugar0.88/i386/os/ (original repository)
- IRC: #sugar on irc.freenode.net (English preferred, Spanish also spoken by several members)