New release8.2 build 764

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM,  <david at lang.hm> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>> Requesting dev keys should not be difficult!  How can we fix that problem?
>
> one headache (at least from the initial G1G1 machines) was the inability to
> do a cut-n-paste of the long key between the terminal and the browser and
> therefor the need to copy the long key manually between screens (or to and
> from paper)

That is true.  http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5709 and
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6428 track these issues.  I regret I
wasn't able to get time to fix them for 8.2; they are on my 9.1
roadmap, but help would be appreciated!

> another one (very relevant to conference situations) is the one business day
> delay in getting the keys issues. this isn't usually a problem, but when you
> only have people togeather for a couple of days (especially over the
> weekend) it may not be possible to get keys for people who don't already
> have them.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activation_and_developer_keys#Getting_devkey_data_for_many_XOs_at_once

> many people who would be good testers don't consider themselves 'developers'
> so would not get them on their own.

Can you suggest a better name, or how we might improve our documentation?
 --scott

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