[Testing] Please help test our pre-release build of 8.2.1

[Gary C Martin]

On 4 Jan 2009, at 20:15, Wade Brainerd wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>  
> wrote:
> Here's my Activity specific testing run through of all the activities
> as currently installed by Activities/G1G1
>
> What's required to get your activity listed here?

If you're happy that your new Activity release also works with 8.2  
(that's what all the latest G1G1 XOs will be pointing too***), you can  
hit the edit button next to your activity on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/G1G1 
  and point to a newer .xo.

If you have release compatibility issues (say your latest 9.1 work  
will break on 8.2) things get more ugly, this wiki page may help:

	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Software_update

***why it wasn't it just called Activities/8.2 and then changed per  
each new distro release is beyond me.

>     WikipediaEN-4 . . - . * . . x x Very slow following links 30sec+!!
>                                     Rainbow warning dialogue on
> resume (but
>                                     did resume page), or after first
> use.
>
> Sounds like something bad has crept into this activity.  IIRC this  
> summer it took only a few seconds.

A quick test of WikipediaEN-4 on an XO with 8.2.0 shows a similar  
behaviour. A quick selection if link hopping took 64sec, 31sec, 15sec,  
29sec, 22sec, 17sec, 24sec, 14sec, 56sec, so there is some variation  
(though all seemed pretty painful times to me).

--Gary

> -Wade