Fedora Desktop on XO

[Greg Smith]

Hi Michael,

No problem being blunt.

I don't know yet how far behind we are or what it will take to catch up. 
We are close if we create a target bug list in the next two weeks then 
start daily triage and weekly test blitzes.

Quality is my primary concern, especially if you throw in a lot of new 
code and potential process changes with Sugar.

Once we get building and testing, it will be a matter of code quality 
and how quickly can we fix important bugs.

On the feature front, my main concern is security/activation/lease 
management features. Point #2 here: 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/9.1.0#Top_Priority

Good progress on signing delegation and faster imaging. However, lease 
management and image customization need some love. They are critical for 
Ethiopia and Peru and others.

In short, we have a good chance to release with major new features in 
March. We just need to pick up the pace and keep people focused.

In terms of the thread, Deepak said that a replacement for JFFS2 is not 
in the plan for 9.1.0. I agree. It needs more work from a test/design 
perspective and it needs better definition of the ROI (work effort vs 
benefit).

The choice of file system isn't a deal breaker for the Fedora Desktop 
feature. The hard part will be picking the right desktop (more on that 
soon, I already love the dancing benchmark bears :-), making it fit on 
the NAND, and testing it enough to prove its usable.

Thanks,

Greg S

Michael Stone wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> I don't mean to be nasty, but I do feel the need to be blunt:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 04:28:36PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> We are definitely behind where I would like to be at this stage.
> 
> How far behind?
> 
>> However, we'll only move the date when we must and we'll only do it 
>> to  improve quality 
> 
> What exactly did you think Deepak and Chris were discussing doing?
> Michael
>