On Saturday 06 March 2010 20:02:44 Carsten Munk wrote: > * What are you waiting for to happen in the MeeGo project?
Announcement of what code is in/out, what the rules are around what is in/out, and what the processes are for community addition to the MeeGo base. My view is that these points can and should be discussed, with the community, before the code itself is released. There is no reason they could not have been discussed, at an open TSG meeting, within 2 weeks of the announcement, even if there were still some open issues for many particular packages. > * Do you know what is currently blocking these things to happen, if so, > what? I don't know, but I speculate that Intel and Nokia wish to present the "Day 1" code as the "MeeGo architecture" as a fait accompli, without community involvement. In my view, there needs to be open discussion about what components, packages, etc form part of something allowed to call itself "MeeGo" and how application developers add additional things and/or determine if what they want is available on the particular platform. This discussion, including what toolkits are initially provided, should be happening before the first drop of code. > * What would you contribute with if these things happened? What area, > what specific things - how can you help, where's your talents in this area > and interest? Based on my experience in Maemo (both personal and from working with or watching other developers), I would propose components that should be included, others that should be optional, maybe some which do not appear to be necessary. I would also contribute to the design of mechanisms for the community to port and maintain missing components and make them available (i.e. the repositories issue). And, very importantly, the build, release and QA processes. In addition, I would like to discuss the range of devices being supported in the MeeGo universe (very small or large devices, devices with no UI, etc.) and the tradeoffs those devices require or force on MeeGo and on the application developers in the community. We have some limited experience of this from Maemo (as some of our applications support all Maemo devices) which we could add to the (mainly embedded, I think) experience of the Moblin guys to have some very constructive discussions. Graham _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
