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?