Weekend Report

[Michael Stone]

Michael Stone prepared the way for 8.2-761, which, pending creation,
announcement, and testing will probably our first signed 8.2.0 candidate
build, at which time it will be in some danger of being shipped two
weeks hence. He expects that 8.2-761 will be published on Friday.

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In more detail I:

  * announced a Last Call for 8.2.0 changes.
  * assisted with analyzing the conozco-uruguay lauch failure and
    associated documentation issues
  * updated the [[rainbow]] and [[security]] wiki pages
  * wrote a release snapshot creation q&a
  * developed triagebot to assist with IRC-based Trac ticket triage
  * assisted with debugging #8532
  * organized a bunch of memory-pressure work
  * restored service to mock.l.o when it went down this weekend
  * updated [[User:Mstone/Commentaries/Infrastructure_1]] based on
    feedback from previous reviewers
  * explained olpc's olpc-update-based build-deployment technology; wiki
    pages pending
  * explained olpc's theft-deterrence features and posted
    [[User:Mstone/Commentaries/Security_1]] discussing their security
    requirements
  * substantially increased the quantity of information collected by
    olpc-log and released fixes for several small olpc-netutils bugs
  * fixed or released fixes for several small rainbow bugs
  * improved [[ECO/8.2.0/Checklist]] and got promises of signoffs for the
    firmware, EC code, kernel, and software licensing lines
  * conducted regular triage- and release-related decisionmaking
  * discussed interprocess communication and jabber w/ marco & scott.