[sugar] Re: Software schedule for B2 build and call for activities and content.

[Jean Piché]

Hi all,

We propose to include a major revision of miniTamTam and a new  
activity called SynthLab into the B2 build. Both activities will be  
ready sometime tomorrow. Full TamTam will not be included in the B2.

On the longer term, we need to have a discussion on the future of the  
Csound Server. For the B2 release, we will still use it but exchanges  
with Barry in December have brought up many questions with regards to  
its relevance if it is silenced whenever the applicaiton is  
invisible. It is entirely feasible to have each application launch  
its own csound instance but since this will require rethinking the  
audio services for other apps, we propose that the server mechanism  
still be left in place for the B2 build.


The TamTam team




On 07-01-02, at 07:11, Jim Gettys wrote:

> Reminder: please enter any requests for new activities or content into
> trac today (per the previously published schedule).  This also goes  
> for
> major new versions of existing activities (rather than bug fixing).
>                               Thanks for everyone's hard work!
>                                     Best Regards,
>                       			Jim Gettys
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 16:37 -0500, Jim Gettys wrote:
>> It looks like the BTest-2 build will be near the end of January. I'll
>> probably have better information sometime next week and details below
>> are subject to change.
>>
>> Remember there will be a BTest-3 build, and a CTest build; the trains
>> will be leaving the station regularly, so don't try to push too much
>> into the software too soon: we'd like better performance, fewer  
>> bugs and
>> higher stability for BTest-2, rather than more functionality. We got
>> much more into BTest-1 than we had any hope for.
>>
>> Having a release target helps focus the mind, and having software for
>> preload done properly in advance helps shake down the overall  
>> process,
>> which includes installation of software in the factory.  Debugging  
>> the
>> factory process is also a major goal of the BTest builds. And  
>> while we
>> expect/hope software will be updated on arrival in country, there is
>> never any guarantee that this actually takes place, so we'd like
>> everyone to put their best feet forward for the builds that get  
>> loaded
>> into flash at the factory.
>>
>> First: If you have a new component: e.g. an activity, need  
>> packages in
>> the base system, or have content of  whatever sort added to the base
>> system, we'd like to know about that *now*.  "New" in this sense  
>> means
>> also substantially revised activities: a good example might be the  
>> full
>> TamTam2, rather than a bug fixed version of what we have now.
>>
>> Deadline for requests for BTest-2 additions of new components is
>> Tuesday, January 2. I do not want last minute addition requests this
>> time around.  Please enter new components into the trac system, using
>> the component "new component".  Size estimates and dependency
>> information is also required.
>>
>> For BTest-1 we had too many balls in the air, and through the good
>> graces of Mark Foster and Quanta, were able to sneak in a late build
>> days after the gate should have closed. This came at a cost I do not
>> want to see happen again: the manual updating of each and every  
>> board by
>> hand.  Here lies madness, and we can and should improve our processes
>> with each build.
>>
>> Here's my current strawman, subject to correction again next week  
>> as we
>> get better data from all the detailed schedule work currently  
>> underway.
>>
>> Week of January 1: CaFE ASIC and first boards are built for  
>> BTest2. Any
>> driver changes or fixes will have to be shaken down, both for the
>> firmware and for Linux.
>> January 2: Requests for new activities/content due.
>> January 4: Decisions on new content requests.
>> January 4: All packages/bundles for initial base level due.
>> January 5: Initial base level starts integration
>> January 8: Integrated build available
>> January 12: All updated packages/bundles for initial base level due.
>> January 14: Final firmware for BTest-2 to Quanta for testing.
>> January 14: second base level of integrated build for testing.  Only
>>     serious bug fixes after this date. Testing at OLPC and Quanta
>>     during the week of January 15.
>> January 21: final system image to Quanta for production.
>>
>> 				Best Regards,
>>                                       - Jim
>>
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