[Server-devel] [XSCE] XSCE devel scrum on #schoolserver

Anna aschoolf at gmail.com
Tue Sep 10 21:54:14 EDT 2013


I've currently got a public instance of the XSCE up in my house at
http://schoolserver.alabamaxo.org (but I change servers from time to time
during testing cycles so don't be surprised if tomorrow it's back on the
big old Dell with XS 0.6 or something else).

XO 1.5 with 1GB RAM
Class 6 SD card as swap
Two ethernet dongles
Full IIAB hard drive courtesy of Braddock

Several of us hit IIAB content at once and it was very, very slow (even
just over my LAN), but the machine hasn't crashed yet.  What we had
stability issues with before was the "low end" 1.75 which only has 512MB
RAM.  It just took a few folks hitting IIAB for it to freeze up completely,
necessitating a hard reboot.  Unfortunately, my "low end" 1.75's SD card
slot is broken and I can't test out swap on an SD card.

I'd like to encourage folks who have the ability and willingness to
publicly host their test XSCE's.  It's a lot of fun to have a testing party
over IRC!  And I mean, come on, out of the entire XSCE testing group, the
only person set up to test over the internet is an English major in Alabama?

Anna Schoolfield
Birmingham


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Anish Mangal <anish at activitycentral.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We had our very first IRC scrum earlier today. Thanks to all those who
> attended. The meeting was logged.
>
> =Rolling agenda document is here=
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg/edit
>
> =Key highlights/minutes=
>
> * Both RC-2 and stable release have been deferred by a week to 19th and
> 26th September respectively. This has been done in light of the recent
> breakages, and to allow sufficient time to test on various supported
> platforms.
>
> * At some point (hopefully later this week) a separate RC-2 (Release
> Candidate) branch will be created, after the major issues have been
> resolved, and the buildbot will start automatic builds from that branch.
>
> * There is some lack of clarity of the performance of IIAB (Internet In A
> Box) on XO-1.5, XO-1.75 with/without extra swap memory. Anna will create a
> public instance of XSCE-0.4 on an XO-1.5 at
> http://schoolserver.alabamaxo.org.* *Once the server is up, she will
> announce it here, and all of us are encouraged to test it as much as
> possible.
>
> * XSCE-0.4 RC2 will be presented at makerfaire http://makerfaire.com Sept
> 21/22 in NYC
>
> =Request to community=
> We are getting very close to the RC-2 and stable release. You are
> encouraged to test the builds as much as possible, on whatever platform you
> have access to, in whatever configuration you find comfortable. These
> efforts would be most effective *once the RC-2 branch has been created
> (it will be publicly announced again).*
>
> =Here are the minutes as recorded by the bot=
> https://sugardextrose.org/issues/4630
>
> =Here are the full logs=
>
> https://sugardextrose.org/attachments/3132/schoolserver.2013-09-10-16.03.log.txt
>
> Best,
> Anish
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Anish Mangal <anish at activitycentral.com>wrote:
>
>> Reminder to all. XSCE scrum on IRC at  1600 UTC / 0900 PDT / 1100 CDT /
>> 1200 EDT tomorrow. Please start thinking about your agenda items :-)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Anish Mangal <anish at activitycentral.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, so based on the responses I've received so far, all weekdays, and
>>> 1600 UTC seems like the best time slot. So I'll propose we hold weekly XSCE
>>> meetings on
>>>
>>> Tuesdays, 1600 UTC / 0900 PDT / 1100 CDT / 1200 EDT
>>>
>>> If somebody has an issue with that time, please speak up :)
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Anish
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Anish Mangal <anish at activitycentral.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes exactly.
>>>> On Aug 31, 2013 7:22 PM, "Kevin Mark" <kevin.mark at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:56:29PM -0700, Anish Mangal wrote:
>>>>> >    +1
>>>>> >    We could use the services of xsceBOT :-)
>>>>> >    (uhps... sent the previous email from the wrong from: address :/
>>>>> - gmail compose
>>>>> >    sucks)
>>>>>
>>>>> I know some Fedora folks who used a meeting bot (based on supybot).
>>>>> You give a
>>>>> command like 'start meeting' and 'end meeting', it logs the meeting
>>>>> and sends
>>>>> it as an email or something and you can add bullet points.
>>>>> -k
>>>>>
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >      On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Anna <[1]aschoolf at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >        I know the policy for #schoolserver is that logs aren't kept,
>>>>> but in the interest
>>>>> >        of transparency, perhaps we could log "official"
>>>>> #schoolserver meetings.  One of
>>>>> >        the nice things about meeting on IRC vs. Skype is that IRC
>>>>> meetings axiomatically
>>>>> >        have transcripts.
>>>>> >        Anna
>>>>> >
>>>>> >        On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Anish Mangal <[2]
>>>>> anish at activitycentral.com>
>>>>> >        wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >          Hi,
>>>>> >          For some time now, people (including me) have been mulling
>>>>> the idea of having
>>>>> >          XSCE development meetings on IRC in complement to the
>>>>> weekly skype calls.
>>>>> >          Conversation on the #schoolserver channel has gradually
>>>>> been growing too. I
>>>>> >          would like to propose that we start holding weekly regular
>>>>> planning and scrum
>>>>> >          meetings to discuss plans and ideas around XSCE
>>>>> development. I don't have any
>>>>> >          structure in mind yet, so we can largely go off where the
>>>>> community wants it
>>>>> >          to.
>>>>> >          I don't what's the best time for anybody who might be
>>>>> interested, so I created
>>>>> >          this: [3]http://whenisgood.net/q72f3wf
>>>>> >          Thoughts?
>>>>> >          Best,
>>>>> >          Anish
>>>>> >
>>>>> >      --
>>>>> >      Anish | [4]anish at sugarlabs.org
>>>>> >
>>>>> > References
>>>>> >
>>>>> >    Visible links
>>>>> >    1. mailto:aschoolf at gmail.com
>>>>> >    2. mailto:anish at activitycentral.com
>>>>> >    3. http://whenisgood.net/q72f3wf
>>>>> >    4. mailto:anish at sugarlabs.org
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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