Re: [OVC-demo-team] Toward developing testing protocools

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 13:10, Stuart K Johnston wrote:
> REF:
> Let me defer to Karl and/or Fred for your actual instructions. But I
> would find it wortwhile to know whether you can:
>
> 1) Install Fedora 1 (virgin system)
> 2) Update to Python 2.3
> 3) Install PyQt (with whatever dependencies)
> 4) uznip BRP.zip
> 5) cd brp; ./run_brp

Good idea. Note though that we're working toward a combined install as
we discussed earlier. If it's simpler to take the "deps" folder and
install everything in that we should. One missing item I see here is
the gnosis utils package, it is required for brp and has it's own list
of deps. Where are we on elimination of the Python 2.3.3 and latest QT
deps? Until these are resolved a Fedora install will not work.

> If that works without any glitches or fussing, we're close to being able
> to hand BRP to other demonstrators/reporters/etc.

Not true. I've run each part of the system and there are edges that are
far to raw to hand out demo software right now. You also have to be an
"evm expert" to install our first pass at the demo.

>
> Of course, we also need to iron out remaining bugs. Those I know about
> are (from Fred):
>
> (1) When scanning a ballot, the machine jumps to the next screen.
>
> (2) The tabulation at the end is wrong, it's a fudged screen Eron
> dumped in at the last moment.
>
> (3) There are also spurious errors reading CDs.
>
> I only know as much as Fred reports, since I have not yet duplicated
> these problems myself. However, (2) *may* be related to the convert.py
> bug that I fixed (after having myself created previously).

I believe we can get a scanner over-nighted to you if you don't have one
already. Running through the entire process including using the CDs and
the scanner is exactly the sort of testing we need right now.

        -Fred-

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