9.1.0 requirements
Release 9.1.0 Overview
This is a time based release per the process at:
Release Process Home
The process is not final. It is a set of rough guidelines still being worked out and subject to change.
The goal (not confirmed) is to make this release public sometime between December, 2008 and June, 2009.
Technical Strategy
Faster, more robust, better integration of activities, more collaboration...
See requirement definition at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Requirements
Sales - Deployment Strategy
See customers below.
Pedagogical Strategy
....
Target Deployments
See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_talk:Gregorio#Shipment_Quantities_and_Languages
Uruguay
Spanish 100K x XOs?
Peru
Spanish 100K x XOs?
Mexico
Spanish
50K x XOs
Mongolia
Mongolian?
20K x XOs
Rwanda
French 10K x XOs
Haiti
Kreyol
13K x XOs
Ethiopia
Amharic
5k x XOs
Cambodia
Khmer
1000 XOs
Afghanistan
Dari
3000 x XOs
Thailand
Thai
500 x XOs
India
Devanagari
500
Brazil
Portuguese
200 x XOs
Arabic
Sabra and Shatila (Lebanon)
500 x XOs
Oceania
Enlish?
500 x XOs
Italy
Italian
600 x XOs
Turkey
Turkish?
15k x XOs
Senegal
French
1000 x XOs
Argentina
Equitorial Guinea
Panama
Spanish
Birmingham
English
South Carolina
English
New York City
English
Priorities from Deployments
Should list what, who and why on each item. Should link to detailed requirements and use cases eventually.
See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_talk:Gregorio#Priorities_from_Carla
Longer Battery Life
Requirement Defintion
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Requirements#Power_Management_Requirements
Who requested
Kim
Touchpad
Requirement Defintion
Who requested
Improved in 8.2.0
Priority request from Carla
Collaboration
Requirement Definition
Allow for intuitive mesh connection and activity-sharing.
Must support first two use cases defined at: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Use_Cases#Collaboration_Examples
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Requirements#Mesh_.2F_Connectivity_Requirements
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Requirements#AbiWord_Sharing_Requirements
Who requested
Priority request from Carla and David. Also several thread on OLPC-Sur.
See also use case at:
Inter-school communication
What I see as most missing and most necessary is a safe space for collaboration between students at different schools, even in different
countries.
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/localization/2008-July/001249.html
Performance and Reliability
Faster activity launching
6472
- File/activity open
- File save
- Task switching
- Activity or main GUI responsivesness to cursor
- Hardware
File Management
Security Activation and Deployability
Network Manager Connections
G1G1 encryption.
802.11i (AKA 802.1x) Uruguay
Unadorned and unedited user feedback
6th grade kids feedback on build 656:
http://sextosdela37.blogspot.com/2008/04/analizando-el-uso-de-las-laptop-en-el.html
Priorities from Carla:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User_talk:Gregorio#Priorities_from_Carla
Comments from technical user in Ecuador:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-July/000408.html
GUI and Usability
Request from Uruguay for HW alerts:
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-July/007086.html
Designs ideas from Scott and Eben in thread. e.g. I hope our alert system will use the freedesktop.org standard: http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/index.php
Priorities from Engineering
4662 needed for better activity capabilities.
2447 caps lock
1997 flashing in write
NAND full crashes system:
I think analyzing performance of non-JFFS2 file systems and picking
a replacement should be a high-priority item for 9.1 update.
from: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-July/016994.html
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