[Testing] Journal and Tubes update, Tues 12 noon; Security update, Tues 4pm

[Kim Quirk]

Please join at noon on Tues to provide updates and concerns on journal,
datastore, presence and tubes.

Also, I would like to start a weekly Security update meeting on Tuesdays at
4pm starting tomorrow. We need school server support for all of these items,
so we need some representation from school server people as well.

The agenda for both meetings will be focused on the associated features for
trial-3 (https://dev.laptop.org/roadmap), pasted below for reference:

XO Features:

   - USB-based upgrades with backup/restore
   - Journal: initiates backup to server, versioning, auto-install of .xo
   files, tags, sorting, filtering, scalability (also see Tomeu's email below
   with his issues)
   - Security: Real crypto activation, signed upgrades, containers
   without restraints
   - Power Management: OHM features(is this done?), turn off wireless
   with lid close
   - Mesh/Sugar UI: Groups, invites, badges/states of connectivity,
   extended taskbar icons, splash screen, visual scalability, Grab/scroll
   feature
   - Tubes: improvements in large messages, activity properties (titles,
   tags), invites, scalability in mesh traffic, robust mesh protocol
   - Activities with taskbar icons: Read, Write (need caps lock), Camera,
   Paint, Browse (need tabs, bookmarks), Chat, eToys, TamTam, Turtle Art,
   Measure
   - Other Activities (may not be available in taskbar): Content Bundle
   Activity, Watch&Listen, Newsreader, Journal, Library, Develop (console
   only), Block Party (this list is still being worked)
   - X server update to 1.4

School Server:

   - Remote access to server (IPv6 tunneling)
   - Server upgrade (fedora yum, what to do with locally changed config)
   - Support for Laptop Backup/Restore, upgrades
   - Name resolution, Presence Service (jabber), DHCP/RADVD, Web Cache
   - Activation, Registration
   - Support for differential file store (Journal backup to school
   server)
   - Content, Web interface for large content pull (catelog), Content
   push
   - Hooks for filtering
   - Web Server


Please put these update meetings on your calendar weekly.

Call in number:
 From the United States
        866-213-2185
 From Outside the United States
        1-609-454-9914
    access code: 8069698

Thanks,
Kim


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
Date: Aug 20, 2007 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: Ship Meeting Canceled for today
To: Kim Quirk <kim at laptop.org>
Cc: Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg at redhat.com>, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>,
Christopher Blizzard <blizzard at redhat.com>

On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 10:23 -0400, Kim Quirk wrote:
> With the Intel meetings today, I would like to cancel the ship meeting
> until next week. Please send me any information on critical path
> issues or areas that need discussion this week so we can get the right
> people together.

I'm quite a bit worried about the Journal because of two points:

1. We still don't have a UI design agreed by Pentagram and Eben. See
http://lists.laptop.org/private/design/2007-August/000176.html and
https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2801 for details.

2. We still are discussing the new API additions for Trial3:
asynchronous copies with progress notification, versions and backup to
the server.

Regarding 1, I hope tomorrow in the weekly design conf call to be able
to reach some agreement. If not, I'm tempted to take all the mockups
that have been flying around and make some mix that, from my POV, gives
the better possible experience given the time we have.

And 2: Ben has been working hard on the datastore adding some new
features, but I'm still worried because they don't fit completely with
the requirements that have been passed to me from the talks with
Pentagram and Eben. Have been trying to discuss it without much luck
till now, although last week we made some advances on this.

I'd like to have a conf call with Ben plus other interested parties like
Marco or Dan. I think we should agree on the datastore API for Trial3
now.

Thanks,

Tomeu
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