Weekend report

[Michael Stone]

Michael Stone managed and assisted in the creation and signing of the
8.2-765 candidate build.

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In more detail:

* I reviewed and approved the changes taking us from 8.2-760 to 8.2-765.
   Particular thanks are due to cscott, cjb, and marcopg for efforts
   above and beyond the call of duty; see
     http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/76x_changelog
   for an awe-inspiring (to me) depiction of what we have achieved.

* I assisted with several fixes, most notably #8307, for gnu & wadeb.

* I got the kernel team involved in the thrashing/OOM diagnosis problem

* For kicks, I pushed olpc-update a bit on fedora-devel-list@

* I wrote up http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Tricks to describe
   some of the programming idioms I have found helpful in recent months.
   (Perhaps you have tricks to share as well?)

* I started thinking about how to teach programmers associated w/ OLPC 
   more about graphics programming, systems programming, computer
   architecture, and programming idioms in hopes of training them to
   write better code!

* and I fought a bit with Greg about the proper basis for 9.1. :)

Notes from the Release Readiness Meeting:

8.2-765 or something quite like it is on track for release at the end of
next week so please test the hell out of it and watch for updates.
(We've got one minor problem, #7932, scheduled for 8.2-766, along with
some small activity updates [Record, Help, ...].) More announcement mail
will follow shortly.

In parallel, we're also experimenting with some riskier memory-related
changes in hopes of finding something that we could ship as an OS update
six weeks or so hence.