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

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 24 February 2012 14:34, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, that would be very helpful.

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

Indeed!

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

http://laptop.moodle.com.au/manual/

I haven't checked whether we cover any of Peter's activities at this
time, but we are in the process of updating and improving this manual
for our new OS.

Sridhar