New kernel branch for XO-1 and XO-1.5 development

[Peter Robinson]

>> > I discussed at Fudcon with Sebastian, Scott etc about resurrecting the
>> > Sugar Spin in Fedora which would allow us to have automated builds and
>> > make use of the new autoqa stuff. I can assist in this stuff as well
>> > if you like although at the moment I don't know how the laptop.org
>> > build stuff works or have access.
>>
>> I'd say that a "Sugar spin" isn't what you want here -- a Sugar spin
>> should aim to be generic and be useful for more widespread testing of
>> Sugar.
>
> From discussing with Peter last week, you're both talking about the
> same thing (different words, etc.).
>
>> The task at hand is simply syncing all changes from xo-1.5 to xo-1
>> on a continual basis, running "make foo.img", publishing foo.img,
>> and trying to act on user feedback as much as possible.
>
> One also needs good bandwidth between the build machine and download
> site, which is all I'm lacking now or I'd be happy to do it...the
> problem is that I'd want to test the build before pushing, and I'd
> want to be able to distribute what I test.

I have a server in france with a 100 meg link which I'm happy to run
it on. Or can do so on dev.laptop.org if there's a procedure to get an
account.

>> (right now you will have to build and set up your own kernel repo for
>> XO-1, but hopefully chris will have that automated soon:
>> http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9402)
>
> One could also use http://dev.laptop.org/~mdengler/xo-1
>
>> Daniel
>
> Martin

Peter