Please help test our new 8.2.0 weekly beta, joyride-2263!

[Ton van Overbeek]

Michael Stone wrote:
> We are thrilled to announce a new test build, joyride-2230, valid until
> Wednesday, August 13.
>
> Please help test it according to the detailed instructions at
>
>    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing
>
> while we still have time to fix issues you might find!
>
> Our specific interest this week continues to be activity compatibility: 
>
>   "Does your favorite activity still run on joyride-2263?"
>
> Currently known issues are recorded at: 
>
>    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes#Build_Joyride_2263
>
> New issues should be filed in our bug-tracking system (dev.laptop.org)
> according to 
>
>    http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Submitting_bugs
>
> or by notifying us by other means.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Michael
>   

A pity you did not choose joyride-2266 ;-).
Joyride-2263 still has issues when booting from USB or SD with a virgin 
devel-ext3 image.
In that case (no Activities included in the image) the initial 
software-update aborts (See trac #7845).
This is fixed in joyride-2266.
I have not been able verify it yet, but even the not working screen 
rotation might have been fixed in 2266.

On the other hand I know you have to pick a build, and with the rate of 
new builds being produced
in all the streams Tinderbox is falling far behind: i.e. joyride-2266 
finished at about 3:07 UT today and
Tinderbox started testing it at 18:31 UT more than 15 hours later. I do 
not know if you can throw
better/faster hardware at tinderbox, but it might be worth considering 
with the current build rate
on several streams at once.

Anyway I'll file my reports on joyride-2266 if you do not mind ...

Ton van Overbeek.