[SoaS] [IAEP][DP] Announcing the creation of a SoaS Decision Panel

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> I'm trying to point out that SL had better have an idea of what it
>>>>>>> wants out of SoaS if it wants to invest time in it.  So far it seems
>>>>>>> like SL wants to put in (great) marketing and get out a linux distro
>>>>>>> that beats Fedora in hardware and community support.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't understand this point, which seems to be the crux of the issue...
>>>>>> SoaS *is* Fedora.  Are there any circumstances where Fedora would work
>>>>>> better than SoaS on target hardware?
>>>>>
>>>>> Further, the work we have been doing at GPA and with other SoaS
>>>>> efforts has provided feedback from real-world situations that will
>>>>> hopefully impact (in a positive way) the efforts at Fedora, Suse,
>>>>> Trisquel and others. It is not so much the size of the deployment as
>>>>> how much we learn from it that matters.
>>>>
>>>> How is that being fed back upstream to Fedora and the other distros. I
>>>> must admit due to lack of time I've been mostly ignoring the GPA
>>>> emails but I do have other feedback loops and I've not heard how these
>>>> 'real-world situations' are improving Fedora. Is there a concise wiki
>>>> page I can reference to ensure I can assist in getting these suggested
>>>> improvements upstream.
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>
>>> I cannot say for sure that Fedora's Live USB efforts are being
>>> influenced by our feedback. Most feedback is getting back to Fedora
>>> through Sebastian. Alas, there is not a concise wiki page and there is
>>> still a lot of noise in the feedback--something we are working to
>>> improve. But what we do have is about 50 kids and teachers using
>>> SoaS--mostly with few problems--which is pretty good news.
>>
>> I was desperate to use the latest sugar via strawberry for the 50 XO
>> pilot we're doing in London but unfortunately I couldn't make it
>> stable enough (with mtd's help) for a deployment so in the end had to
>> go with the XO 802 release. Which is pretty bad news! I'm hoping that
>> will change for the second phase of the pilot.
>
> Is there a description of the problems you encountered with Strawberry
> kicking around anywhere?

Primarily boot issues, some stability, the lack of mesh support.
Mostly documented and hopefully mostly now fixed upstream although
I've been way too busy of late to actually run up images on the XOs I
have here to test. That should start to slowly improve next week with
some luck.

Peter