[Testing] Activity Set for 9.1.0

[Greg Smith]

Hi S,

Thanks.

I'm getting buried trying to nail down the feature set and requirements 
details for 9.1. In short I can't keep up with you!

 > Will the activity group for the 9.1.0 image continue to be
 > Activities/G1G1?  If there will be a new activity group
 > ("Activities/Nine" ?) then I can make a new checkbox for it in the
 > activity form next to
 >   Activity group:  _ Activities/G1G1  _ Activities/Peru

GS - I think there will be a new activity group and new page. I'm just 
not quite ready to create it yet. Should probably do that in January (if 
someone has a good sense of the deadline you could add it to the schedule).

On your other points they all seem sounds to me although I didn't fully 
understand the details.

What I need in the short/medium term is a list of target activities with 
contact names, test status info and version number. I want that all in 
place so I can quickly make a scrub through the list near the end of the 
release and pick the final set.

I'm open to any suggestion you have on how to do that with minimum data 
duplication and re-entry.

In short, if you want to change that section of the page to a new format 
or document some more conventions on how to list activties, go for it!

Hi Wiki-gang,

As you can see there's lots of work, some easy (e.g. copy and paste), 
some harder (e.g. Wiki/Semantic editing) and some quite hard (e.g. 
helping document requirements and specs).

Anyone who can help is welcome! Reply on the list or send me an e-mail 
and I'll give you some more tips on how to get involved.

Thanks,

Greg S

S Page wrote:
> Summary:
> * .xo URL and version live in the Activities/<Activity name>_(latest) 
> fragment.
> * Could assemble Activities/9.1.0  or reuse Activities/Joyride now.
> * Will there be a new activity group?
> * Maintainer lives in the <Activity name> wiki page as the 
> Contact_person property.
> 
> (I took some of the mailing lists off the recipients.)
> 
> Greg Smith wrote:
> 
>> I created a section on the 9.1.0 planning page for activities: 
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0_requirements#Activities
> 
> Each activity's .xo URL and version must be correct in its 
> Activities/AwesomeFun_(latest) fragment, so I would link to that rather 
> create another diverging list[**], For the Software update control panel 
> to work there will eventually have to be an Activites/G1G1/9.1 page that 
> pulls in these fragments; you could create this page now, or you could 
> repurpose the existing http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/Joyride 
> page, adding a section "Activities under consideration to add the 
> factory image for 9.1.0".
> 
> Will the activity group for the 9.1.0 image continue to be 
> Activities/G1G1?  If there will be a new activity group 
> ("Activities/Nine" ?) then I can make a new checkbox for it in the 
> activity form next to
>   Activity group:  _ Activities/G1G1  _ Activities/Peru
> 
> 
>> Morgan,
>>
>> Can you make sure we have the full list of contacts you gathered from 
>> the last round? We can also cook up an invite e-mail to get people 
>> thinking about 9.1.0 once we have a contact list.
> 
> The page for every activity lists its maintainer as Contact_person; on 
> the activity's edit form this is called
>   Maintainer's user page:   User:Morgs
> The testing group has worked on getting this information right for the 
> current G1G1 activities, so I would urge updating that field rather than 
> creating another diverging list.   The user page for most contacts has 
> some indication what their e-mail address is.
> 
> 
> I would have the table link to these bits rather than repeat them and 
> drift out of date.  I'll think whether there's a way to pull them in so 
> readers don't have to follow a link.
> 
> The other info in your table (Documentation, URL to Test Case,     
> License status,     Status,      Comments) is fine, it doesn't duplicate 
> anything except maybe http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Property:Devel_status
> 
> 
> [**]
> There should be one place in the wiki for each bit of information, 
> anything else leads to extra work and errors.  .xo URLs and versions are 
> already listed in:
> 1. The Activities/AwesomeFun_(latest/8.2/9.1) fragments that Activity 
> group pages pull in and which are parsed by the Software update control 
> panel.
> 2. The {{OBX xobundle}} "badge" on the activity's page
> 3. The Activity_bundle and Activity_version properties of the activity's 
> page.
> I hope to get rid of #2 some day, and I'm not sure #3 is useful.
> 
> It's exciting to see 9.1 taxiing to the runway!
> Regards,
> -- 
> =S Page
>