[SoaS] SoaS test cases

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Mel Chua wrote:
> http://blog.melchua.com/2010/05/01/soas-test-cases-we-can-haz-them/ for 
> more details and current test results: 
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Mirabelle. 
I just added my tests to it.
> The short 
> version is that everything's working except collaboration (which has a 
> known fix, see below) and Read (not because the Activity doesn't work, 
> but because there's nothing to read with it and it's therefore hard to 
> test/quickly-start-using).
>
> In terms of getting Mirabelle ready to go out the door, right now we need:
>
> * this telepathy-gabble update, 
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/telepathy-gabble-0.9.11-1.fc13, 
> to be pushed to the Fedora updates repo – it has +3 karma but is still 
> in testing, and must be pushed before Tuesday; without it, collaboration 
> in SoaS does not work at all.
>   
In the meantime; this will bring up the Network Neighborhood for 
Collaboration over the internet:
Sebastian found this and it works:  
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=168852
I uploaded it to a more convenient location:

In sugar terminal:
1-) su
2-) wget http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/telepathy-gabble-0.9.11-1.fc14.i686.rpm
3-) rpm -Uvh http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/telepathy-gabble-0.9.11-1.fc14.i686.rpm
4-) Restart USB
This will have to be done for testing until the update gets pushed into the soas spin build.

>   * download/install instructions for burning the image to a stick, for 
> every major operating system, that can be followed by a classroom 
> teacher without technical expertise. We know the Blueberry install 
> instructions (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Blueberry) 
> do not fit this criteria, and would love for someone – probably a 
> non-engineer – to help rewrite them. Install instructions will either go 
> on http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/#downloads or be linked to from 
> this page.
>
>   
Step by step procedure to use the liveinst command in sugar terminal 
(Anaconda) to write  a 4GB USB  with a ext4 (real file system):

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Category_talk:Live_USB#How_to_install_to_a_4GB_USB_using_liveinst.28ANACONDA.29_from_SoaS

* tested on soas-i386-20100501.07.iso as a 2GB USB today' (Minimum size 
of 4GB is required as it does not use a Compressed filesystem with 
overlay like the live USB.)

I wish this could be more simply scripted...It is NOT for novices to try.
This needs to be simplified!
The resulting USB is VERY stable as it uses a ext4 Journaled File system 
and will not fill up easily.

Tom Gilliard
satellit
> * quotes, stories, screenshots, and photos (CC-BY, 
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/, please) from Sugar/SoaS 
> users on what they’ve done with the platform, cool things they’ve tried, 
> how this fits into a classroom, and so forth, to be used on the spin 
> webpage and related links – bonus points if you can talk about 
> contributing to SoaS as well as using it!
>
> --Mel
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