[sugar] Release Status Report - 8.2.0

[pgf at laptop.org]

c. scott ananian wrote:
 > 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.

if we can guarantee that we won't corrupt user data, then i agree
that it's not a blocker.  but if not, i'd say it is.

 > #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.

is there background missing from trac?  i don't read anything in #6010
other than "we wake up only to go right back to sleep too often",
which seems even more benign (leaving power usage aside) than
you're describing.

paul
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