Greg Smith's Weekly Report

[Sameer Verma]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Here's my weekly report for week ending 9/26.
>
> ***********************
> Status against last week 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 - Done! In the end, no hounding was needed :-) Triaged bugs but fell
> a little behind the incoming rate this week. Also picked and tested
> a set of additional activities to add to the G1G1 default install.
>
> 2 - Clean up open bugs section of 8.2. release notes. Get release notes
> ready for final review.
>
> GS - Mostly done. Top section finished and ready for final review. Human
> readable explanation and categorization of key bugs started. Final edits
> and comments welcome: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0
>
> 3 - Write 8.2 launch plan and technical overview presentation.
>
> GS - Not done. Wrote brief blurb on the release for re-use in promoting
> it. Still need to list communication vehicles, choose the right landing
> page (Release notes?) and refine the high level message for the release.
>
> First pass release message:
> 8.2 has major enhancements including:
> - A flexible Home view and Journal with several options for searching
> and organizing activities.
> - An enhanced Frame for accessing other XOs and peripherals and for
> switching between running activities.
> - A Graphical Control Panel for setting language, network, power and
> other defaults.
> - An automated Software Update tool which finds the latest version of
> activities and updates them over the Internet.
> - Capability to backup XOs to a school server and restore files to the
> Journal as needed.
> - A new manual shipped with the XO as an activity.
> - Many other bug fixes and enhancements.
>
> For more details, see the final draft of the Release Notes at:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/8.2.0
>
> 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. Pushed for an engineering owner a little but not too hard
> until 8.2 is 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 - Mostly not done. Added a few more details, discussed strategy and
> country demands. Added some more detailed requirements for deployability
>  at:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0#Security.2C_Activation_and_Deployability
>
> 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 but did get approval to repost statistics on XOs
> "Delivered, shipped and ordered" by country. See also this URL for new
> deployment and XO information:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Learning_Workshops
> Some of this will be integrated in my next update of the Deployments page.
>
> ******************
> Goals for next week in priority order:
>
> 1 - Get 8.2 to manufacturing. Catch up on bug triage.
>
> 2 - Finish 8.2 Release notes and get final review of them from engineering.
>
> 3 - Finalize blurb used to promote the release and start sending it out
> to internal lists. Write more generally usable Release message.
>
> 4 - Update deployments page and releases page.
>
> 5 - Post more detailed 8.2.1 page and restructure 9.1 page.
>
> 6 - Once 8.2 ships, open a bottle of Champagne. One glass then start
> work on the next release :-)

One glass is inefficient. You'll lose all the fizz if you don't finish
the rest. Or, just share! :-)
--
Sameer