What's left for Update.1

[Kim Quirk]

Jim,
I think this is way too much stuff for Update.1. We are in code freeze. We
have items 1 and 2 scheduled to go into RC2; I would suggest that we ONLY
pick up Spanish, where we really fell short in the current build; I don't
agree with holding up this build for either 4 or 5, as this feels like new,
untested code - perhaps there is no 'fix' even available at this time (I'd
need to see the arguments that this is blocking AND we have a fix); and I
agree that we need to look at 'Blocking' bugs that are still open to see if
we agree they are still blocking - or move them out.

People can argue otherwise (I'm open to a good discussion), but my
recommendation is to get this build out, with all the known issues well
documented.

Kim


On Jan 31, 2008 10:11 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:

> For comment and discussion, here are the showstoppers I know of for
> getting Update.1 finished.  If you think there are others, please speak
> up now (and modify the subject line to start another thread).
>
> Activity developers: note we'll be asking you to upload updated
> activities to pick up all the recent flurry of translation work very
> soon.
>
>  1 - wireless firmware and driver support
>                (to fix problems with WEP and WPA)
>  2 - q2d11 OFW - to fix battery problems
>  3 - update activities to pick up translation work, Spanish
>        in particular, but not missing other languages we may need.
>  4 - UI fix for registration with the school server.
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6136
>  5 - switch to gabble from salut at school.
>  6 -testing and fixing anything critical!
>
> If we don't want to hold up an RC2 to pick up translation, then we
> should anticipate an RC4 might be necessary (as we may have issues that
> come up with updated activities).
>
> 4 - we previously (without Dave Woodhouse being available to add to the
> discussion) thought we could/should punt #6135 and release note.
> However, talking with him about what we should really fix given his
> experience in Mongolia, the lack of positive confirmation that the
> laptop actually was registered is a real issue.  The teachers are not
> familiar with English (or computers), and the subtlety of a menu entry
> going away isn't good enough.
>
> I think we need to seriously discuss about possibly/probably being
> update.1 fodder is the "kids arrive at school in the morning" problem.
>
> 5 - Use of mesh in large, crowded environments
> If everyone arrives at school running local link and resumed quickly,
> the network might melt from mdns mesh traffic's interaction with the
> mesh's implementation of mutlicast.  We've upped the multicast bitrate
> for multicast as a band aid, until we can dynamically adjust the
> bitrate.  But the fundamental issue comes that in large, dense school
> environments, can't expect multicast to scale far enough, and should be
> using unicast to a presence server (jabber in our current case) to
> handle this problem.
>
> Dave Woodhouse has suggested may be to try to get a response to the
> school server's anycast address, and if we get a response from a school
> server, switch from Salut to Gabble for presence service automatically.
>
> This is also somewhat mitigated by having working power management, as
> machines that have suspended due to idle stop sending mdns packets, and
> the kids presumably will want internet access and switch over when they
> arrive.  But I'm not very confident that this will always work in large
> environment.
>
> Another temporary solution would be to have Ohm ask NM to reconnect if
> the machine is suspended for more than some interval, say, 30 minutes.
>
> --
> Jim Gettys
> One Laptop Per Child
>
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