[SoaS] [Sugar-devel] SOAS-3: Final Activity List - Attention needed!

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 26.04.2010, at 21:16, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> So as it stands the final Activity list that we're pushing for SOAS-3
>> will be as below unless someone gives me reasonable doubt as to the
>> release team's (Sebastian and myself) decision.
>>
>> So the final list is:
>> - browse
>> - physics
>> - turtleart
>> - irc
>> - log
>> - terminal
>> - Record
>> - Read
>> - Write
>> - Chat.
>> - etoys
>>
>> In literally the last 10 minutes Sebastian and I have fixed the Write
>> issue and over the last 2 weeks with the latest Record release and a
>> number of fixes and testing I've got Record to what seems to be a
>> stable and working release. The last of the changes should be in the
>> daily build from tomorrow (including a fix from sdz for the lack of a
>> boot screen).
>>
>> One thing to note is that other than sdz and I there has only been one
>> other person test and report back on the builds (Thanks Thomas!) so if
>> you haven't done so until now we are now on the home straight so
>> please test. I don't want to here the day after release "Blah is
>> broken" because someone hasn't taken 10 minutes to test the release, I
>> will be less than impressed!
>>
>> For those who forget where they can get the daily build you can from this link.
>> http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/
>>
>> Regards,
>> The SoaS release team!
>
>
> Looking quite good :)
>
> Issues I noticed:
>
> * Write, Read, and Etoys do not appear in the home view by default.
> They should be marked as favorite from the beginning.

That will be fixed in the next daily build.

> * There is no sound in Etoys.
> Pulseaudio is running but padsp is not installed (which Etoys uses to fall back on OSS when it detects PA).
> To test, click the little red car icon in the screen's top right corner, then click the yellow exclamation mark button in front of the "Car make sound" tile. You should hear a croak if it is working.

So does etoys not support PA? Or does it fall back to using OSS
emulation layer when it detects PA? What other sound layers does it
support? I don't find a padsp package in Fedora.

> * Shut down does not finish.
> I ran the iso image directly in VirtualBox. Shutting it down leaves a message "Shutting down..." in the screen center, but it does not power off.

OK. Will check on my test physical machines.

> Thanks for prodding us to test ;)

Thanks for doing do!

Peter