will there be an 8.2 update ?

[Greg Smith]

Hi Mikus,

I need to take that page down!

I am remiss in doing that. Its a page which is automatically generated 
by Trac. Since Trac items and associated tags are not up to date, its 
not a useful page. I keep hoping I can fix it but since it hasn't 
happened, its time to take it down.

Michael or anyone in engineering, do you know how to remove that Trac 
roadmap page? Just take it offline until I can figure out how to make it 
show something meaningful.

The real roadmap, such as it is, is here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Releases

Not much there right now but I think 8.2.1 will come together quickly 
now and 9.1 shortly after that. I will post links to more details on 
each of those as soon as I get enough buy in.

I plan to talk about Trac usage conventions for 9.1 at the next weekly 
Feature planning meeting on Wed. at 2PM US ET, freenode.net 
#olpc-meeting. After that I should be able to tell you how to update 
Trac to flag a bug as a candidate for inclusion in 9.1.

The 8.2.1 early thinking is here:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-November/021388.html

To your question:
No we do not currently plan to improve the NM 0.6 implementation in 
8.2.1. It may still come up as a critical item for Uruguay or another 
deployment, but so far it is not on the list. I think your best bet is 
to have issues resolved with NM 0.7, targeted for inclusion in 9.1.

Let me know if that is not clear or you need more info.

Thanks,

Greg S

> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:48:17 -0500
> From: Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com>
> Subject: will there be an 8.2 update ?
> To: devel at lists.laptop.org
> Message-ID: <4931C6B1.5000302 at bga.com>
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> Looking at the "official" http://dev.laptop.org/roadmap, it is not 
> clear to me whether an official update to 8.2 (f9) will be released.
> 
> My reason for asking is that I have a problem with Network Manager 
> 0.6 (ticket #8343).  If there is a chance that 8.2 will be improved, 
> I will leave that ticket open.  If 8.2's Network Manager will not be 
> updated, then I can close that ticket as 'wontfix', and instead 
> write a different ticket against the newer Network Manager.  [What 
> Network Manager 0.7 does/does_not_do needs to be described 
> differently from what Network Manager 0.6 does/does_not_do.]
> 
> Will a 'fixpack for 8.2' be released ?
> 
> mikus
>