OSTEP Meeting 2013-03-11

OSTEP Team Meeting 2013-04-11

Today's Big Question Redux: Are we on-track to release a great Pidora 18 on April 22/23?

• Same as last week but slightly bigger - ~2.3G -- rpm -q -a --qf "%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n" | sort -k1,1n

• Known problems

• • Comps file - yum warning (ctyler)

• • About 20 unsigned packages incl. parts of webgtk3 (fossjon + oatley)

• • Branding

• • • Spinning logo is present but disabled - remove (agreene)

• • • cpe identifier is "Fedora" - check (chris)

• • • Pidora name needs to be introduced everywhere appropriate (agreene)

• • Documentation

• • • Release notes (agreene + ctyler)

• • • • Include network control with "ip", and how to install "ifconfig" for the greybeards

• • • Installation notes (fossjon)

• • • System Requirements (fossjon)

• • • Headless (agreene)

• • Testing

• • • Test on 256 + 512MB Pi (all!)

• • • Test headless (agreene)

• • • Test audio (analog, hdmi) (fossjon) -- as per this site http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting -- aplay freezes the machine

• • • Test video (composite, hdmi) (fossjon) -- both work fine

• • • Tested wireless - works OK (agreene)

• • • Test other languages & Keyboards & Timezones (agreene)

• • • Basic functionality

• • • • Browsing (oatley)

• • • • Networking (agreene)

• • • • Tested yum - working with baseurl (agreene)

• • • • Languages

• • • • • Pi demo source compiles (ctyler)

• • • • • Python (fossjon) -- works -- python -c "$(echo 'for x in range(0,10):' ; echo ' if x%2==0:' ; echo ' print(x)')"

• • • • • Bash (agreene)

• • • • • Perl (fossjon) -- works -- perl -e 'for($x=0;$x<10;$x++){if($x%2==0){printf("$x\n");}}'

• • • • • C/C++ (ctyler)

• • • • • Ruby (?)

• • • • Web serving

• • • • • httpd (oatley)

• • • • • PHP (oatley)

• • • • GPIO and LED control in /sys/class (ctyler)

• • • • i2c and spi devices in /dev (ctyler)

• • • • Serial (ctyler)

• • • • Device control libraries (ctyler)

• • • • • GPIO.py ???? (ctyler)

• • • • Performance sanity-check (LD_PRELOAD of memcpy/memfill libraries appears to make no or negative difference) (all)

• Release Readiness

• • Mirroring (ctyler)

• • • Master mirror

• • • Mirrors

• • • Mirrorlist server functionality

• • • repo files in pidora-release

• • Installer (fossjon)

• • • Mirroring in place

• • • Installer able to serve mirror list

• • Alternate installation (not using the installer) ()

• • Bug tracking (agreene)

• • • Bugzilla or Trac?

• Release awareness

• • Videos

• • • How to install

• • • What it looks like

• • • How to add/remove/update software

• • Press Coverage

• • • Magpi Magazine

• • Forums

• • BerryBoot (ctyler)

• Upcoming

• • Reorganization at start of May

• • • HW move, lab setup, UPS, storage

• • • Purchases

• • • • PSUs for Yosemite boards

• • • • UPSs?

• • • • Zip ties

• • Polytechnics testing (all)

• • HDSB PA Day

• • Poster for Mindshare Connect