[OLPC-AU] Testing OLPC Australia XO-AU OS 12 beta 2

[James Cameron]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:07:08PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On 19 February 2012 14:17, Jerry Vonau <jerry at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> >> 5. Still can't understand why you insist on supplying old versions of my
> >> activities - from memory: Spirolaterals, Numbers, Turtle Machine and Jumble.
> >>
> >
> > That is more of a documentation blocker, we have documentation assembled for
> > the teachers on what to expect with the installed activities. Until the
> > documentation is updated we're a little hesitant on present a different user
> > experience from what is in the documentation. Bugfixes we can slip in but
> > changing how the activity looks or new features would render the
> > documentation incomplete.
> 
> Adding to Jerry's comment, we maintain quality control by including
> versions of activities that we are able to test. If there's a newer
> version of an activity available, testing against our OS is welcome.
> We need assistance from the community to stay on top of new versions.

Peter, I suggest that for each activity you check to see if the changes 
you made between those versions add any new features, or if they only
fix problems.

If they only fix problems, then review the documentation to ensure it
does not need changing, and then tell Jerry and Sridhar that the
adoption of the newer version will improve quality.

I can't imagine Jerry and Sridhar would want to continue to ship
activities that have bugs.

Sridhar, where's this documentation, so that Peter can check it?

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/