Re: [orca-list] OpenSolaris b129 looking good for testing

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Michael:

http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-discuss would 
be a good place to discuss accessibility issues specific to OpenSolaris. 
 The mailman site available from the link above also provides you with 
access to other OpenSolaris mailing lists to join to discuss things like 
audio and graphics driver issues.

> Is there anywhere I can find out the state of accessibility in any 
> development build? If there isn't anywhere then Will could you keep us 
> updated on this (Idon't know how others feel, it may be more of a topic 
> for the opensolaris accessibility list).

This is a very good idea.  To date, I've just been sending out 
announcements when I think we've reached a good milestone.  But, it 
would be great if we could create a dashboard of some sort where 
community members can report on their experiences with given builds.  I 
could imagine some simple table whose column headers were:

| Build | Live CD | Install | Installed System | Notes |

Where:

"Build" is the build ID

"Live CD" is a checkbox saying whether the live CD is accessible or not

"Install" is a checkbox saying whether the installer is accessible or not

"Installed System" is a checkbox saying whether the installed system is 
accessible or not

"Notes" provides information on known problems and pointers to bugs that 
have been filed.  For example, maybe the DDU utility broke or 
packagemanager has issues or brltty crashes, etc.

The page could also include a quick set of smoke tests for anyone to run.

If you think this would be useful, I can try to work a skeleton up, but 
I would also like help from the community to maintain it.

> Also, is it just me or are the latest CD ISO files too big for a CD or 
> has a larger capacity CD been sneaked out without me noticing? Anyway if 
> the CD is really a problem I have managed to put it on a USB memory 
> stick before, I would just prefer a CD (its easier to create and gives 
> good clues as to where you are in the boot process due to drive noise).

Yes - the ISO image is beyond CD size right now.  I believe it will be 
reduced to a CD-sized image for the final release, though.

Thanks!

Will

> Michael Whapples
> On -10/01/37 20:59, Willie Walker wrote:
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I tested our internal development build of OpenSolaris b129 last week, 
> > and it is now publicly available on http://genunix.org/.  These 
> > development builds are all pointing to the next stable release of 
> > OpenSolaris due out sometime early next year.
> >
> > From my testing, I believe we're now back on track with an accessible 
> > live CD and install.  I haven't a chance to scour the OpenSolaris 
> > 2009.06 instructions at 
> > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+indiana/AccessibleLiveCd 
> > to see if they still apply to this development build, but I believe 
> > they should be up to date for the most part.
> >
> > So, please feel free to take it for a test ride -- it seems to work 
> > nicely on my Toshiba NB205 netbook.
> >
> > Will
>
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