Release Status Meeting - 8.2.0 - Tomorrow, 2:00 PM EDT, various venues - Notes

[Kim Quirk]

My thoughts in-line...
Kim

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:16 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > - Kim will check with Peru and Greg will check with Uruguay teams to
> > ensure that they do not plan to upgrade to 8.2.0. Action item due by
> > July 20.
>
> Why don't we want them to use 8.2?


Two reasons for Peru to stay with 8.1:
1 - Peru has 'blessed' their build for the next 75k laptops and we got it
into production for them. It is 703+peru activities (which you knew, but may
not have thought about the reason we ECO'd it into production was so they
don't have to upgrade before giving them out to students).

2 - Peru has created and printed their User Manuals based on the UI of 8.1.

We should expect and encourage them to continue on this path. We will
support 8.1 until we ship 9.1, which should work for them. That's that part
that I will confirm when I visit them.

Greg has agreed to check in with Uruguay on where they are in their roll out
to teachers and students.


>
> I suspect some words were left out, and what you really meant was,
> "their schedules for adopting 8.2 are not pressing"?
>
> If we don't expect our two largest deployments to adopt our release,
> why are we making it?


KQ - We have many, many more deployments, trials, pilots, possibly G1G1, who
will be just getting their laptops when 8.2 is ready or soon there after.
This release is for them.

Even in the case of G1G1, if those laptops go out with 8.1.1, they can MUCH
more easily be upgraded to 8.2 than was possible with earlier releases.

>
>
> Something's not right here.
>
> Incidentally, on the "blocking bug" front, I notice that Uruguay's
> wireless problems with 703/708 were nowhere to be found on the roadmap
> for 8.2.  This is a blocker to our producing something useful for "the
> kids".


KQ - Do you have a specific bug in mind? Let's make sure it gets listed when
we start listing/triaging blocking bugs (which I agree we can start doing at
any time); and make sure it is getting addressed.

>
>  --scott
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