[Testing] Journal and Tubes Minutes from 9/18/07

[Kim Quirk]

Attending: Kim, Eben, Dan, Erik, Dafyyd, Simon, Marco, Ben, Michail


Tubes:

   - Bugs 3506 and 2853, Dan is working on today which will disable link
   local if the XO is connected to a jabber server.
      - If there is a valid IP address, it will try to connect to
      jabber service. If it connects, it will disable link local
      - If the jabber service goes away, it will re-enable link local.

   - Bug 2890 should be fixed and has to get into the next build.
   - Bug 2463, when the initiator of a shared activity leaves, others can
   no longer join, even though it looks like they can from the neighborhood
   mesh view.
      - If we had fully understood this bug earlier, it would have
      been good to shut down the activity when the initiator left, and
then figure
      out a better solution for FRS. The way it works now is just
really confusing
      and will cause complaints and support calls. The longer term
solution needs
      to allow another laptop to advertise the shared activity if the first one
      leaves.


Journal/Datastore:

   - There are a couple of bugs related to journal freezing or crashing
   that Marco believes are fixed. Ben is reviewing the patches. Hopefully these
   will get in the next build.
   - Some of the changes that were added recently to the journal caused
   some unstability. At this point we need to know what else is needed to feel
   good about the journal in terms of tracking activities, resuming, basic
   search, working with a USB stick, and installing bundled files from USB and
   from browse (XO and XOL). Marco and Ben will try to provide an update later
   today or tomorrow on recommended fixes to get to stability.
   - We talked about the human-readable name issue and all the
   implications of changing names and titles. The user requirement is that if
   the student copies an image, an abiword doc, or pretty much anything from
   the journal to the USB stick, that they need to be able to find it again
   later with a human-readable filename (the one in the upper left of the
   activity when it was open).
   - Issues brought up include the problems with non-unique names; the
      fact that the title is totally separate from the file store naming. What
      happens if you try to change or use the activity right from the
USB stick?
      And the fact that having a common name does not mean the data is
readable by
      some other program (like an abiword doc saved to a USB key may not be
      readable by anything else).
      - We asked Marco to think about what it would take to implement
      just the simplest case and see if we can document the things that won't
      work.

- Kim
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