OSTEP Meeting 2013-02-07

OSTEP Team Meeting 2013-02-07

Updates & Plans

Jon

• Continuing on armv6hl builds

• • About 8200 packages built out of ~12000

• Upstreaming armv6hl changes - Tuesday (ct+fossjon)

• Send flags to ctyler (fossjon)

• Keep queuing, fixing errors (fossjon)

Andrew Greene

• Prepared beta!

• Working on release notes

• Keyboard & timezones in firstboot - bugfix

• Wiki updates

• Have added updates-testing repo

• Need firmware update with sample code patches (ctyler)

• Problem with garbage tickets being filed as tickets in Trac

• • Need a guest login to prevent bots (ctyler)

• • Consider some volunteers for Triage?

• Release of RPFR18 --> Monday Feb 11!

Andrew Oatley-Willis

• Working on Trac admin tools

• • PW change working

• • User add/remove/admin change of PW not working yet

• • Test and deploy by Wed Feb 13 (oatley)

• Backup keys

• • Will check and fix up (oatley)

• Bringing up new builders

• Script to find out what's being used in external bootstrap repo (oatley)

Dmitry Kozunov

• Busy with tests! Do not add tasks!

• Wiki page with builder config for Paul Whalen (mailed copy tonight/tomorrow morning) (DarthJava)

• guipio front-end (DarthJava)

Chris Tyler

• guipio back-eng (ctyler)

• Pidora planning (ctyler)

• Storage config changes on England

• Wiki gardening fad Monday (ctyler)

• Partner discussions / grant docs

To Do

• Builder capacity

• • Need sufficient swap on heavybuilders - min. 8G on machines with disk drives (oatley)

• 2nd Cubie

• • Buy PSU (ctyler)

• • Add cubie2 to armv6hl build group

• • 13-3 repartition (agreene)

• Fedora CA on Japan

• • (low priority) (ctyler+oatley)

• OSCAR+FELIX

• • Move to armv6hl builders (oatley)

• Createrepo hosts (x86_64) for Japan koji

• • Some of egypt/england/bahamas (agreene)

• Copy HongKong cert script to Japan (agreene)

Pidora 18

• Check name with Spot

• Updated splash screen

• QA

• • Test multiple video configurations

• • Test on Rev 1, Rev 2, 256M, 512M, various card sizes

• Release

• • Pi Day!

• • Mirror via RPF including repos

• • Video demo of features

• • • Feature list

• • • Feature screenshots

• • • Feature videos

• • • Overview video

• • Installation

• • • Instructions for various platforms/card burning tools

• • • Video of various installation tools

• • • Explanation of how imaging works

• • Headless

• • • Instructions for headless setup

• • • ip-info enabled by default - both ip-flash and ip-read

• Hacking features

• • quick2wire library

• • rpi.gpio library

• • other hacking libraries

• • sample programs for accessing various devices

• • guipio experimental program

• • include basic dev tools sufficient to build the sample programs

• • include raspberry pi pinout information

• Magnagement

• • updates-testing repository

• • mirrorlist URL (MirrorManager?)

• Usability

• • Accessibility suite?

• OOBE

• • Ensure that the resizer does not excessively slow down the first startup

• • Optimize fast boot and shutdown

• • Set firefox default homepage to Pidora home page (pidora.org? pidora.ca? pidora.senecacollege.ca?)

• Brand

• • Pidora logo

• • Pidora web site

• Store

• • Provide a way to use the store (web helper? application? alien?)

• Community

• • Invite selected beta testers -> encourage them to prepare blog posts etc.

• • Provide an easy bug reporting mechanism

• • Build some buzz around the release

• Deals

• • Make arrangements with one or more vendors for preloaded cards

• Documentation

• • Installation instructions written by Seneca techdoc students?