State of 8.2.0, July 29, 2008

Michael Stone michael at laptop.org
Tue Jul 29 21:34:55 EDT 2008


Note: I took a quick pass over the current blocks:8.2.0 tickets. I have not
revisited the other tickets since last week. Finally, if you're working on
tickets on this list, please ensure that they are fully updated BEFORE
tomorrow's status meeting. In particular, feel free to fold comments from this
report into your tickets.

Thanks,

Michael

Status Key: 
       ??? - status or author unknown
       TST - needs to be tested in a build
       BLD - needs to be put into a build
       PKG - pkg needs to be built
       DBG - debugging/diagnosis still needed
       DSN - design needed
       STK - stuck; a decision is needed about how to proceed
       SGN - a signoff is needed
       ESC - canceled or siginificantly reduced in priority
       FIN - successfully finished
       MSG - communication needed
       ROT - solution has bitrotted
       OWN - owner needed
       REV - progressing through code review
       COD - simple matter of coding
       QA  - qa signoff needed

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! brackets mean that a ticket deserves special attention.

=== Current blockers

????           DBG   ???         Qualify or disqualify 8.1.0 or 8.1.1 for various locales.
                                  \ ar_IQ (Iraqi Arabic) 
                                  \ ar_LB (Lebanese Arabic)
                                  \ fa_AF [prs_AF] (Afghani Dari).
                                  \ see http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Notes/Localization_1

7600           PKG   tomeu       Palettes in Journal give false information
                                  \ Tomeu: please explain why this is a release blocker.

7628           ???   uwog        Include Write-55 in 8.2.
                                  \ Scott: please explain why this is a release blocker.

7616           FIN   ???         Bindings for special keys are missing.
                                  \ Reported fixed in joyride-2207.

7125           ???   cscott      Boot fails when disk is full
                                  \ Lots of packages landed. Where are we?
                                  \ 317  joyride-2208:?  
                                  \ 5317 ???
                                  \ 6442 ???
                                  \ 7586 joyride-2208:?
                                  \ 7587 PKG marco
                                  \ 7588 COD erikos  (also needs string freeze exception.)
                                  \ 7589 DSN eben.
                                  \ 7590 ??? tomeu
                                  \ 7591 COD cjb

6136           PKG   erikos      No feedback from 'register' request
7426           DSN   tomeu       Xapian Index Flag Day
                                  \ cjb thinks we should downgrade Xapian and avoid the flag day.
                                  \ cscott thinks *if* we can do something that makes our life easier 
                                  \ in 9.1 we could ship the old Xapian for 8.2
                                  \ "we'll need to update someday, it might be worth our time trying 
                                  \ to figure out how to do it right"
                                  \ (these two plans are compatible, of course)
                                  \ how we are going to deal with this issue in the future:
                                  \ DS possibilities http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-April/005186.html
                                  \ Maintain a metadata copy outside the index http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-May/014492.html
                                  \ very simple datastore reimplementation http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-May/013716.html
                                  \ has been discussed in several tickets, as well.

7566           PKG   marco       Sugar-shell enters an infinite loop after a failed shutdown
                                  \ marco hasn't gotten to it yet because of UY browser bugs.
                                  \ he hopes to get to it tomorrow.

7071           QA    joe         Activities cannot be deleted via GUI
7444           QA    joe         Cannot close a shared activity when the initiator has disconnected
                                  \ waiting for QA.  Greg will investigate.

7523           FIN   dsd         Library index regeneration fails due to no XDG_DATA_DIRS
7532           FIN   dsd         Can't access installed content bundles
                                  \ both tickets joyride-2201:+ by dsd

7477           FIN   sayamindu   ISO_Next_Group key doesn't work
                                  \ reported joyride-2214:+ by sayamindu

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7269           DBG   sayamindu   Dari laptops don't use Dari characters
                                   \ Do we need to make an SKU with correct mfg data?
                                   \ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455636
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7457           ???   Collabora   Laptops unable to see each other in Joyride
                                   \ expected, given #7319 above.
                                   \ needs to be retested given that 7319 is believed to be fixed.
                                   \ 7319 was reported fixed in joyride-2200.

6825           QA    erikos      Problems with email web-frontend www.adinet.com.uy
                                  \ Reported fixed in joyride-2204 by erikos.

7294           FIN   erikb       Camera not working
                                  \ work-around is already in joyride; Record-55 works; 
                                  \ some regressions in Record are left.
                                  \ they don't seem to be in the bug.  what are they?
                                  \ should they be in a different bug? #7452
                                  \ and #7459 (fixing today)
                                  \ and #7609
                                  \ Reported fixed in joyride-2207 by dsd.

7339           FIN   tomeu       CPU spins after starting an activity
                                  \ reported fixed in joyride-2120 by tomeu.


=== Important bugs

5104, 5527     DBG   ???         Reconnecting to encrypted access points with NM
                                   \ http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016335.html
                                   \ Sjoerd knows some things about this.

7474           DBG   sayamindu   Amharic compose key broken

7480           DSN   erikg       Networking configuration reset button
7458           DBG   dsaxena     Suspend/Resume (S/R) lockups
                                   \ dsaxena side-tracked; rsmith's help requested
                                   \ pgf might be available. needs to be retested w/ new wireless firmware
                                   \ probably realted to 2621

many           TST   dilinger    Touchpad bugs.  
                                   \ http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-May/013580.html

7353           COD   dsd         F-9 Bloat (currently 10M over target)
                                   \ had a nice discussion w/ abadger1999 (Toshio)
                                     suggestions: we need to be much more aggressive about filing bugs in bz.rh.c
                                                  we need to include references to all bz.rh.c and all upstream
                                                  bug reports in our tracking bugs.
                                                  major goals: merge dsd's changes upstream
                                                  kill perl from libabiword, which should let us achieve our goal.

7394           TST   ???         OFW refresh
                                   \ need a pointer from the tickets to the mailing list feature annoucements
                                   \ Mitch provided an initial test matrix in the ticket.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7392           TST   martin_xsa  DS backup/restore
                                   \ martin_xsa not present; will seek a separate update.
                                   \ time to start proceedings in fedora for package inclusion of ds-backup
                                   \ Needs testing help!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

7357           COD   cjb         olpc-hardware-manager must die:
                                   \ not ready yet. but not essential since the functionality is all working 
                                   \ (even though split between that and OHM)
                                   \ workaround in joyride; dgilmore doesn't want to ship the workaround in 8.2

7384           COD   cjb         USB-disabling power management
                                   \ cjb is multitasking between killing olpc-hardware-manager and shipping this.

7434           TST   cjb         Power management (PM) control panel entry (CPE).
                                   \ need to recheck the 'airplane mode' switch
                                   \ need to communicate that ALL USB stuff will die.
                                   \ better labels in general  (translators need a say here, though. artwork might be appropriate)

4951, 7396     TST   cscott      Activity Updater CPE.
                                   \ autostart mechanism is not yet ready for testing (7495)
                                   \ all sorts of security concerns here 
                                     - DOS potential on activities, due to running out of space (i.               \ Need to re-run the updater when network access becomes available.

7486           PKG   tomeu       Sugar shell crashes when threads used.
                                  \ will need to recheck for 10 Hz wakeups.


6797           PKG   ???         Rainbow/X race
                                   \ some upstart work at http://teach.laptop.org/~mstone/rainbow-job
                                   \ needs a real owner; mstone will work on it as spare time permits

7528           PKG   cscott      Wireless firmware - 5.110.22.p17

6673,7466      ???   dsd?        tamtam broken.
                                   \ i think TamTam+joyride is going to be a headache   --- why?
                                   \ csound is broken, i just commented on the ticket
                                   \ need to speak w/ the tamtam folks: Jean Piche'. (ask jg for others)

7448           TST   cscott      updates from 656 to joyride fail.
                                   \ believed fixed; will test comprehensively as part of test plan for 4951/7495
                                   \ not yet done; ask again next week.

7442           DBG   ???         weird interactions between X and VTs.

Other bugs submitted for triage: (from 7413, high quality release)

4312           COD   ???         volume buttons in totem
7205           PKG   marco       pippy regression
7220           DSN   tomeu       mark newly downloaded activities as favorites by default.
                                  \ ???

7494           REV   homunq      activity upgrade problems
                                   \ homunq offers to take these. 
                                   \ See also related new bug 7534: 
                                   \     "Safer to always reinstall, rather than comparing versions"

7378/7524      OWN   mstone      core library update
                                  \ cscott would prefer an in-house maintainer, but...
                                  \ We should advertise the need for a maintainer on devel@, olpc-open@, etc.
                                  \ we could also poke SJ's interns for short-term updates.
                                  \ Several people think that we really need to do some hiring here. 
                                  \ We should discuss w/ Kim since other folks claim that OLPC shouldn't be generating content.

7419           DBG    ???        can't quit browse
7525           COD    cjb        pippy update
                                   \ activity issue; not strictly tied to 8.2
5409           COD    ???        no indication for secure/insecure sites in Browse
7421           ???    ???        grab bag of other browse issues


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=== Bugs/Areas needing triage

Greg and I are going to sdchedule individual triage meetings with individual
subsystem maintainers to hunt for old bugs that need to be considered.

This week, we're going to discuss power management w/ cjb at 1200 EDT.

No other triage meetings have been scheduled. To schedule a meeting, reply to
this mail with proposed times and attendees.

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