joyride 2128 smoketest

[Kim Quirk]

With almost 400,000 deployed in the world, we need to have some good
discussions on the backward compatibilty and upgradability of Activities.

Some of the bugs Charlie is writing up from the QA first look at joyride may
be answered by upgrading an activity to a newer one.

So here are the questions we need to discuss:

1 - Is there anyway to ensure backward compatibility of activities (the
8.1.1 activities will work with 8.2)?  -- seems like a long shot to me.

2 - For support purposes, do we need or want to say that activities will be
backward compatible only across the year designator (8.1 activities will
work with 8.2; but from 8.x to 9.x, the activities will need to be updated
and probably retested and checked for new translations).

3 - Since I think it is going to be really hard to do either 1 or 2 above,
then we have to have a strategy for easy activity upgrades. We've talked
about this for a long time... do we have a proposal that we can really
implement as part of the 8.2 release?

Kim

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Murphy, Charles <cmurphy at wpi.edu> wrote:

> I've been running a smoketest on the recent joyride-2128 build, and have
> just posted the results of what i've done so far at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes#Joyride_Builds .
>
> Here's a short summary of some of the more glaring issues:
> - The two XOs tested could not see each other on either simple mesh or on
> an AP with a schoolserver (both laptops are registered to the schoolserver
> in question, schoolserver.media.mit.edu).
> - Browse could not download .xo or .xol files.
> - Clipboard could not paste into Write.
> - Record has problems saving and playing back photos and videos.
>
> I'm not finished with the smoketest yet, but these issues seem bad enough
> to merit posting to devel and the wiki right away. I'll continue posting
> results to the wiki as they come in.
>
> Charles Murphy
> WPI Class of 2010, IMGD-Tech
> cmurphy at wpi.edu
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