[Sugar-devel] EduJAM day 2 Tour of Uruguay

[David Farning]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: quozl at us.netrek.org [mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org] On Behalf Of
> James Cameron
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 4:47 AM
> To: David Farning
> Cc: 'IAEP'; 'Sugar Devel'
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] EduJAM day 2 Tour of Uruguay
> 
> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 04:24:53PM -0300, David Farning wrote:
> > >From a tech point of view, the big question have been:
> > 4. questions about why touch pad behavior has changed in the latest
> > release with out giving teachers a heads up.
> 
> I don't know what release they are using, or were using.
> 
> I don't know if they mean XO-1.5 or XO-1.
> 
> XO-1.5 touchpad behaviour was changed; tap to click was disabled or
> enabled.  Default varied by release, and the default should be
configurable.
> 
> XO-1 touchpad behaviour was changed.  Latest OLPC release on XO-1 is
> 10.1.3, which has no touchpad change compared to 10.1.2, so I presume
> they were on 8.2.1 or a derivative previously?
> 
> Two XO-1 changes may be relevant:
> 
> 1.  the enabling of automatic power management from 8.2.1 to 10.1.3, which
> causes touchpad to be momentarily unresponsive when the laptop is
> suspended; this is in the release notes [1], so OLPC did include a heads
up,
> 
> 2.  the revised kernel driver for XO-1 touchpad [2], which changes the
> behaviour somewhat; this is not in the release notes.  It went in with
10.1.1.
> 
> Please encourage them to be involved in testing of development builds, so
> that they can provide feedback early.

+1. And we should also consider this is a custom spin for UY.  So effective
QA will involve:
1. Sugar.
2. OLPC.
3. AC -- if they chose.
4. In country development staff.
5. Users.

>From what I can see, the idea that the benefits of working together is
starting to outweigh the costs for many of the participants and
organizations :)

david

> [1]  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Release_notes/10.1.3#XO-
> 1_Automatic_power_management_issues
> 
> [2]  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchpad_driver_changes
> 
> --
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.linux.org.au/