Release Status Report - 8.2.0

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Before we can ship power management, though, we should also fix:
>  * the SD corruption bug (#6532) -- if we can't fix it in time, we can
>    inhibit suspend when an SD card is plugged in.
>  * pushing wakeup decisions to the EC (#6010) -- this will make the
>    wakeup logic more reliable.

I'd claim that #6532 is not a *blocker*, it is just a desired feature.
 I think that we should ship low-power mode in 8.2 even if that means
we grey out the option to turn it on when an sd card is mounted.

#6010 I'm a little more ambivalent on; I'd need more opinions on
whether wakeup is unreliable "enough" to make an explicit low-power
mode unworkable.  If it means that sometimes it takes two power button
presses to wake up, that's probably not a blocker.  If it is so hard
to wake up that people regularly think the machine is hung and
hard-power-off instead, that's probably a blocker.

I'm not saying these bugs aren't important, I'm just trying to clarify
our "WE DON'T SHIP 8.2 UNTIL..." list.    I'd like to say that
low-power mode is a must-have for 8.2.  I think "we don't ship 8.2
until low-power mode doesn't eat SD cards" is on the "don't ship"
list, but the way we get there might be by disabling low-power mode in
some situations -- it depends on how hard the SD corruption bug is to
fix.
 --scott

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