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