Becoming involved in XO software development?

[Greg Smith (gregmsmi)]

Hi Janine,

Coming at your question from the user requirements side, I have one
request from the deployment in Uruguay.

They want to make it easier for kids to blog.
 
Description of the requirement is at: 

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Uruguay  Click on the link called:
Requiremientos Para XO

It has surprisingly broad implications which may require new code on XO,
XS or the Internet.

I'm putting together a team to address that requirement. I want to make
anything we develop available to all XO deployments. I also want to stay
in touch with Uruguay to gather more requests from them. I think we can
develop a mutually beneficial dialogue where developers learn from the
users and vice versa.

We'd love to have your support!  If you are interested, send me an
e-mail or join the list I setup on Google at:
http://groups.google.com/group/uruguay-XO-coordination

The success of the whole organization is more important than any one
project so you should give extra weight to responses from OLPC employees
(I'm a volunteer).

For example, below is a request for help from the server list. It has a
few specific suggestions you may want to consider.

Thanks,

Greg S

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Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:49:35 -0400
From: "Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
Subject: [Server-devel] The road towards xs-0.3
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Hi all,

I am just settling down in my temporary "office" in Buenos Aires.
Before leaving Cambridge, I cranked out some a private test build of the
XS fixing #6678. Tomorrow I will finish setting up my portable build
machine to crank out a few more with related fixes. Is anyone else
(other than Wad I guess) actively working on XS-related bugs, are there
any patches or easy fixes that I could trivially include in the
0.3 release? Any bugs that you have seen or not reported?

*Now* is the time to file those unfiled bugs, vote for the unvoted bugs;
show your love for XS and show your patch ;-)

Where/how to do this? 3 Easy steps:

1 - Familiarise yourself with the xs-0.3 goals and general roadmap here:
    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Roadmap

2 - Have a read of the currently open bugs, have a look at the ones
listed for xs-0.3 - if you have patches you know what to do with them!
https://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&
group=milestone&component=school+server&order=priority&col=id&col=summar
y&col=status&col=type&col=priority

3 - Help triage the bugs! What is bug triage? Read this article - and
Eric Sink's one too!
    http://blogs.msdn.com/tonyschr/archive/2006/01/12/512164.aspx

cheers,



martin
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