State of the update.1

[Bert Freudenberg]

If "trolling" is what it takes to exact such a thorough response, so  
be it ;)
Still, I apologize if you felt that snippy remark was addressed at  
you personally.


On Mar 7, 2008, at 16:58 , C. Scott Ananian wrote:

> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-March/011509.html
> (a thread you participated in)
> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6598#comment:12

I indeed participated in this thread, but I found "When update.1 is  
released, we'll provide an 'activity pack' for G1G1 folks" to not be  
exactly satisfactory. And I'd imagine the support crew is looking  
forward to the gazillions of "where did my apps go" requests ...

> It was mentioned as a release note item.

Excuse my ignorance, but I cannot find any update.1 release notes for  
build 696 which removed the activities.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Group_Release_Notes stops at 694

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Update.1_691 is almost empty

http://www.google.com/search?q=update.1-696+release-notes comes up empty

> Again, I apologize that this was not better communicated, but I am
> not, in fact, the release manager or the build manager, or anything.
> I'm just a software engineer who's trying to make things work.

I understand. You don't really have to answer my questions if this is  
not actually your job (especially when your communicating gets you  
into friendly fire). And if nobody feels its his/her job, maybe that  
position should be created?

> I hope that in my voluminious emailing
> this week I've done at least a little bit of retrospective
> documentation.

Yes, thanks.

> It may well
> be that we need a new mailing list specifically for the community to
> keep track of deployment issues; the weekly emails might not be giving
> activity and content authors enough insight into the actual  
> deployments.


I would love that. Also, I'm really unhappy to hear almost zero  
feedback from the pilots, let alone the deployments.

Thank you,

- Bert -