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?