Greg S Weekly Report

[Greg Smith]

Hi All,

Here's my weekly report. They called for the report on Thursday AM this 
week so it doesn't cover work since then.

Thanks,

Greg S

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Status against last weeks goals:
1 - Hound engineers to close all 8.2.0 blockers (see
http://dev.laptop.org/report/28) and get a firm date for the Release
Candidate build. Triage bugs and keep the release on schedule.

GS - Mostly done. Triaged all incoming bugs. Pushed to close blocking 
bugs which are awaiting final test. Planned meeting for final release 
decision.

2 - Clean up open bugs section of 8.2 release notes. Get release notes
ready for final review.

GS - Partially done. Started organizing bugs in to sections.

3 - Write 8.2 launch plan and technical overview presentation.

GS - Not done. Collected product presentations from learning meeting as 
source material.

4 - Share and post 8.2.1 time frame and operating procedure (e.g. Trac
queries). Start planning for Early Field Trial/Beta of 8.2.1. Keep
pushing for an engineering leader/owner of 8.2.1.

GS - Not done.

5 - Review and finalize short 9.1 strategy description. Restructure
requirements section to align with strategy. Fold in more deployment
requirements. Keep pushing for an engineering leader/owner of 9.1.
Stretch goal: prepare to write detailed requirements sections and start
scrubbing bugs to create working Trac queries.

GS - Done on strategy section. Still looking for more comment. A few 
more deployment requests added, otherwise not done.

6 - Update deployments page. Update releases page and start using new
semantic format (thanks to S Page for laying out the structure). Also
update XS sections of releases page.

GS - Not done.

Other: met with deployment and education leads from Paraguay, Palestine, 
Wisconsin, Birmingham, Puerto Rico, and Colombia in 3 day Learning workshop.

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Goals for next week in priority order.

1 - Set final date for 8.2 release and test final release candidate. 
Finalize G1G1 activities and content.

2 - Final edit of 8.2 release notes. Get final review and approval by 
engineering and management.

3 - First draft 8.2 technical overview presentation. List plan for 
communication of new release.

4 - Keep adding to 9.1 and 8.2.1 plan.