Monday Ship Mtg update message

[Simon McVittie]

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On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 at 16:04:44 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote:
> For individual activities we will always want people to be able to download
> from a website pretty much at any time, so further development and features
> to activities, should continue to be planned and released outside of the
> olpc schedule. We will stop taking bits for activities that are shipping on
> the laptop after November 2 (unless you make arrangements with Jim).

A related question: which activities are shipping on the laptop? Can I
get a canonical list from somewhere, preferably with source code
checkouts?

It's come to my attention that some activities are using rather bizarre APIs
over Tubes; it doesn't matter a great deal how good Tubes are if everyone
uses them wrong, so I'm hoping to be able to devote some time to
cleaning up the Tubes code in at least the "exemplary" Activities.

I was surprised to discover that Calculate is shipped in the builds but not
in jhbuild, for instance (I've now filed a bug regarding its use of the
sharedstate module, which Morgan and I consider to be poorly
implemented - it uses Python's pickle module with untrusted input, which
is unsafe).

It would be ideal if jhbuild always contained at least the same packages as
a build, and possibly more, at least for "small" things like activities
(obviously, I'd make an exception for the Library!).

    Simon
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