Software status meeting minutes
Mitch Bradley
wmb at firmworks.com
Wed May 16 17:08:52 EDT 2007
I think it unlikely that the security features will be ready by B4.
Kim Quirk wrote:
> Dev team,
> As followup from last night's meeting, to help direct the next two
> release milestones (B4 and Trial-2), I have updated the 'Roadmap' on
> the front page of Trac. Please look this over (I copied it here so you
> can just scroll down), and don't hesitate to make comments. The bugs
> will be sorted into these release bins according to this high level
> description. We may further break Trial-2 into Alpha, Beta, Ship...
>
> B4 milestone says:
>
> "This build, scheduled for Mid June, is the final chance to fix
> hardware and mechanical problems that were detected in the Beta Test 3
> build of the XO. 2000 units will be built and will go to trials in
> multiple countries.
>
> Note that the B4 firmware will be finalized and delivered separately
> from the Trial2 sugar code. The focus for B4 is middleware, power
> management, first school server build, and bug fixes.
>
> Features:
>
> * FC7, python 2.5
> * Power management (eBook mode, USB power mgmt, suspend button,
> tinderbox updates)
> * Low level security features (kernal and firmware)
> * First school server build
> * School Server support for activation, registration
>
> Also during the B4 assembly, Ivan will do an onsite audit/discussion
> of the mfg process for security"
>
> -----
>
> The Trial-2 milestone says:
>
> "Trial-2 is defined as the sugar code release needed by the time B4
> units get to the country trials. Below is a list of features from the
> highest priority to lowest, with the expectation that we will cut off
> the Trial-2 feature list about one week before each of the major
> milestones, alpha (late june), beta (late july) and final release,
> which will be in September.
>
> Prioritized feature list:
>
> * Security, vserver code and integration
> * Support for backup/restore with School Server
> * Mfg Tracking Server
> * Power management daemons
> * Manual updates, don't loose user data
> * Journal
> * Chat or video chat
> * Collaboration support for Browser, Abiword, Camera
> * Security UI exposed
> * Power management, Sugar UI
> * Network code updates
> * Collaboration support for other activites, games
> * Video conference
> * VoIP
>
> Details can be found in trac items or design specs. Activites that are
> shipping can be found on the 'Activites' page of the wiki:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities "
>
>
> Go to the source: http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap
> <http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kim
>
>
>
>
> On 5/16/07, *Mitch Bradley* <wmb at firmworks.com
> <mailto:wmb at firmworks.com>> wrote:
>
> System Software Telecon, 2007-05-15
>
> Attendance: Mitch, J5, Blizzard, Kim, cjb, Bernardo, Jim, Bryan, Luna,
> Vance, Richard,
> Ronak, Wad
>
> New action items:
>
> AI: Jim and Chris to check with Jonathan Blandford about Richard
> Hughes
> availability
>
>
> B4 schedule.
>
> Target dates:
>
> 5/28 Verify boot2 code
> 6/03* Nominations for new activities due
> 6/08* OFW build due at Quanta
> 6/08* All software packages due; bug fixes only after this
> date by
> approval only
> 6/08-6/15* Integration and test of system image.
> 6/12 B4 SMT prebuild
> 6/15* B4 NAND image due at Quanta
> 6/19 B4 Assembly (qty 2000)
>
> So we have 3 weeks before freeze
>
> Status
>
> cjb:
>
> - don't have kernel resume working on LX yet
> - don't have DCON source mode working
> Bernardo can help.
>
> We need a power management daemon soon. The volunteer is not
> doing it.
>
>
> David Woodhouse to be in Boston starting Sunday
>
> Ebook mode is working, but we need to clean it up after the
> weekend hack
> attack
> Hopefully we can integrate it by the end of the week
>
> Richard:
>
> Tinderbox 2 is up and running. Needs a little work on some
> power rails.
> Running an extended suspend test. Want to predict lifetime in ebook
> mode - hoping for 20 hours.
>
> Immediate priority is EC wakeup via keystrokes.
>
> Working with David Lin to fold new SCI-related changes into EC
> build.
> We will do a new firmware releasse, but will not try to funnel it
> to Quanta for B3.
>
> Blizzard:
>
> Want to isolate power management milestone from UI milestone
>
> + Power management needed for B4
>
> Need to specify sugar milestones for the end of June time frame
>
> + basic journal that works with some app
> + collaboration that works with a chat client
> + rudimentary peer-to-peer
>
> When will we switch to FC7? It might be about a week of work,
> but J5's job will get a lot easier afterwards. The biggest
> problem will probably be Python 2.5. Suggest middle of June
> for cutover. FC7 goes gold at end of May.
>
> Update system. We don't have anybody to work on it now.
> It is about two months or work, more or less.
>
> Wad
>
> School server initial feature set
>
> + network stability
> + tunnel out for monitoring
> + backup
> - No special security for B4
>
> J5:
>
> It is do-able to separate the UI part of the build from the base
> system
> It is a manual process right now. We want to automate it, but that
> won't happen by the end of the week.
>
> We are going to have a repository for activities that won't be
> in the
> default build.
>
> Jim:
>
> We may need to push some B4 bugs out to Trial2.
>
> We need to start thinking about implementing security
>
> Machines are locking up at 40 C. We need to find out if it is
> OOM or
> thermal shutdown or something else.
>
> Mitch:
>
> LX firmware is pretty much done, so can resume whatever he was
> working on before the LX cutover changed the game.
>
> Supporting B3 build.
>
> Short term: Fixing OFW JFFS2 driver memory utilization -
> pathological
> 1G NAND filesystems take 111MB of RAM, need to reduce that.
>
> Long-term: Wireless install - What is the time frame?
>
> Long-term: Security
>
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