[OLPC library] Book sprint - AT update - Monday

[Greg Smith]

Hi Christoph et al,

I may not make these meetings either but I'll try to keep up in e-mail.

On the 8.2 release notes: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_Notes/8.2.0

I think you can make some good progress documenting the new sugar 
control panel. However, there is very little good information on exactly 
what those things do. You should probably take them one at a time.

This link has some info: 
http://sugarlabs.org/go/ReleaseTeam/Releases/Sucrose/0.82

The timezone one should be pretty self explanatory. That said there is 
one odd thing that needs to be explained. The name of the panel is date 
and time, it only allows changing time zones right now.

We should explain the difference between "about my XO" and "About Me". 
Hopefully you can get some sense of that by clicking on them. If you 
need more input, please ask.

Frame is hopefully clear by clicking on it.

Power needs a lot of explanation. See the longer battery life section in 
the release notes. See also this URL: 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tests/Suspend_Resume Chris Ball is the main 
guy to explain power. Its changing some and we also need to explain when 
and why the screen goes black sometimes vs. when it dims.

Software updater is a big one but I don't have any good links to its 
documentation right now. Scott is the author of the code and I think 
that Eben and Michael S know some about how it works too.

Network is important but not well documented. It is related but 
different from the Register item in the popup menu on the XO guy on the 
home screen. They should both be well documented for users with a school 
server and without. You may get the best input on those from the server 
list.

I suggest you go right to engineering on the devel list if you can. 
Otherwise let me know what open questions you have and I'll try to 
connect you.

Thanks a lot for your time and effort!

Greg S
Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm off for the day to attend some family business and thought I'd leave 
> you with a quick summary:
> 
> I've got a rough framework going for the "Personalising" chapter, need 
> to investigate tomorrow to get lots more details about power saving 
> options and especially software updates.
> 
> Greg, as discussed in the call, maybe you can assist me there by 
> pointing me to relevant resources on the wiki and the mailing-list 
> archives.
> 
> I'm afraid I won't make it to tomorrow's call but will try to set aside 
> 2 or 3 hours in the evening to continue on the chapter. Wednesday and 
> Thursday evening should work easier for me.
> 
> Have fun sprinting everyone and see you tomorrow!
> 
> Cheers,
> Christoph
> P.S. Adam Hyde, thanks a lot for all the support, it's much appreciated!