[IIAB] Fwd: [UKids] IIAB Software Install

[Braddock Gaskill]

Curt,
It was all good - it forced me kicking and screaming to get a release
update out for School Server.

I'll get you a current dataset (which is almost what you sent out) and we
can talk about curating it a bit.

-braddock


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Curt Thompson <curtathompson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> That's mostly my fault.  I received the latest 'work-in-progress' from
> Braddock to try to work on and passed on copies to those who asked for
> them without really thinking about how they might be used.
>
> I am a little torn though, because neither version is perfect at this
> point and the latest now-effectively-released version does have some
> features which make it better (in particular, full-text wikipedia search).
>
> Ideally there would have been more testing done, but I'm not sure
> sending the older version would have been the better option, given that
> it seems likely we'll be able to address the problems at the three
> schools where it's been deployed.  Admittedly, it would have saved Tim
> (and George?) some headaches as they tried to debug the mismatched
> software/dataset.
>
> In any case, I didn't mean to cause any trouble or annoyance.  If I did,
> I apologize for that.  I believe Tim has already addressed most of the
> issues with the software/dataset mismatch, missing symlink, etc in
> XSCE.  More clearly definied versioning for IIAB is certainly an
> oft-noted good idea and something I think we should think about going
> forward.
>
> Cheers,
> Curt
>
>
> On 7/13/2014 2:50 AM, James Cameron wrote:
> >> This is not how I envisioned the next release of IIAB to go.  Datasets
> floating
> >> > around with uncertain pedigree, running software versions which have
> had no
> >> > thorough testing, no manpower available from our side to support, and
> two days
> >> > until shipment.  There was a reason I had not released a new version
> in the
> >> > past nine months.
> > I agree.  First impressions are critical.  Things should just work.
>
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