New, more realistic multi-hop network testbed

[Kim Quirk]

Some thoughts from a QA perspective:

I consider the 100 laptops that I budgeted, ordered and help install in
Peabody to be the QA "collaboration testbed", which is expected to be used
to recreate problems from the field and test out next release solutions.
Since we had to dismantle Peabody, most of these laptops (about 70 of them)
have been loaned to Poly in 1CC.  Now that we have both a QA Lead and an
intern, I expect we will need to refocus 20-30 laptops back to the QA
testbed full time and we have signed a lease on the new test facility, which
will be ready for the full 100 laptop test bed (or perhaps 200 laptops) by
mid-July.

Secondly, we also need to be working on the longer term solutions, such as
those being investigated by Poly, Nortel, Michail, and Ricardo. If this also
requires a 100 laptop test bed then we need to build one. We need to order
these laptops and start making permanent homes for them. If the first step
is to order 10 laptops, I will order them.

Poly - What I can't tell from your progress reports is exactly what is
needed for us to get to the next level. On the surface it sounds like you
had to rebuild chat to make it work with cerebro. If so, does that mean all
activities would have to be modified to a new API? What else is needed? How
does the cerebro solution fit into the rest of the stack and the other
technologies we are working on for 8.2.0 (August) and future releases?

If the cerebro solution is still in research and there are a lot of issues
that still need to be worked out before we can release it, then we need
someone to help track all the issues and help resolve them through the stack
in order to get something to release stage. Let's work with Michail on this
as he probably needs to take the lead.

As a first step, I will order 10 laptops for Poly to find permanent homes
for throughout the MIT campus.

Kim


On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:02 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:

> Honestly, I'm getting very burned out over the politicking here.
> Ricardo, Polychronis, and the Nortel guys seem to be the ones doing
> the real heavy lifting here on the mesh network.  When they ask for
> something, I think we should give it to them.  Ricardo and Polychronis
> agree that a sparse network testbed may be useful -- in addition to,
> not instead of, a dense collaboration testbed -- why can't we just
> say, yes, do that then.
>
> Wad is right, we still need a collaboration testbed, but as Poly
> points out this is currently Collabora's area of responsibility.
>  --scott
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