[Nepal] second and last update on xo updating (and a bit on the schoolserver)

[Bryan Berry]

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 10:41 +0545, Ties Stuij wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > Awesome! Has kafle documented the process for building a custom XO
> > image?
> 
> Well, as I told before, I kinda took the building of the image out of
> his hands, since it's all handled by pilgrim now. So that's on my
> plate now. I'll do a full writeup on it today or tomorrow, and I'll
> post something more readable on the blog.
> 
> > Why do we need to update the Schoolservers that are operating at Bashuki
> > and Vishwamitra? AFAIK they don't have any data we need to protect.
> >
> > Are you just testing updating the server so we we can do it later in
> > 2009? Now that's forward thinking!
> 
> Are you being a bit ironic here?

I am complimenting you on thinking ahead. 

> Actually there are a few reasons I see that seem quite reasonable.
> First of all they are pilot schools, so we might as well use them as
> such. They both got, what.., around 70 xo's. That's a perfect testing
> ground to check how to best update activities and to test gabble for
> example.

agreed

> Updating the servers also means it just gets a lot easier to update
> our activities. As I see it, once we tested this new NEXO build, we
> might just as well update their XO's and with the new schoolserver in
> place. This way we don't have to do the whole update dance we're doing
> right now.
> Also we want a way to update the schoolservers remotely. We should try
> to do that with actual servers at the actual schools methinks, cause
> that we will stumble upon problems that we wouldn't in our neat little
> test-environments. This applies to a lot of other testing-areas as
> well of course. Also I think it's good to let the interns do something
> like this on a real-life site, to get a feeling for it. It helps us
> concentrate better, cause our software is actually gonna be used for
> real. Right now gabble doesn't work at all at the schoolsites I think.
> 
> Perhaps they're not all mega-valid in their own right, but together
> they become super<blabla>. Could come up with a few more reasons if
> you want. There are some still lingering in my morning brain.

they are mega-valid reasons

> > I look forward to testing out the new NEXO image. Pls post it somewhere
> > along w/ a .md5 file so I can download and test it out.
> 
> Willdo.
> 
> /Ties
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Bryan W. Berry
Technology Director
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org