On Tuesday 13 July 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hi ... > > i (along with some other kde people) are in preliminary discussions with > some companies regarding putting KDE and Plasma on devices. one in > particular is looking at Plasma Netbook + modifications for a tablet > device running MeeGo. > > this kind of opportunity will likely become more frequent, but as they > appear they are usually going to be one time events: we will have one good > shot with each company. > > right now, we're missing a very critical piece of the puzzle which is > preventing these companies from starting to get involved in R&D type > activities with us: > > we need a clear description of what "KDE on MeeGo" is. > > this includes: > > * build instructions for MeeGo
i can wipe out my sdk and start a build from scratch, annotating each step one has to do after the chroot is set up to get at least kdelibs and kdebase working. > * tarballs they can download with the relevant sources (could be just a > list of links to existing tarballs we release) yep, that one is easy :) > * lists of files/libraries that end up being installed as part of kdelibs > and runtime on MeeGo uhm, everything, every so, header and so forth? > * documentation of the MeeGo profiles (tablet, mobile) that go into kdelibs do we already have plasma running on a limited profie? > i know these are all "works in progress" type things, but if we have > documentation on them, please speak up and post links so we can pass them > on to the interested parties. > > there is some information here: > > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile > > but it's a bit spotty and not something we can hand to a 3rd party, really. > there is also some interesting TODO's here: > > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile/PlatformModifications > > and some packaging docs here: > > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile/MaemoPackages > > but again, this is more in the category of "internal notes". > > i also have read the notes from the mobile BoF at akademy: > > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile/Meetings/Akademy2010#Minutes > > some great stuff there; but it's missing "documentation for 3rd parties". > some may be tempted to say "but we aren't ready for 3rd parties", but > that's incorrect: we are ready for early adopters who are ready and > willing to help out and work with the code alongside us. it's an > opportunity to get more people helping us instead of trying to do it all > on our own like heros with the idea of having something "complete" one day > to offer to 3rd parties. while many 3rd parties are going to want that > "something complete", not everyone needs that and some are going to want > to be involved in making it happen. i fear the time is really tight and we should have stuff ready "for yesterday" something that we really need is a set of meego packages of 4.5, or the current trunk, or whatever. i don't have any knowledge whatsoever about packaging, but is the biggest thing -everyone- interested in it is asking > i don't have the knowledge necessary to put together this kind of > documentation, so i'm asking that those who do can come together and help > me do so. if we can have a working meetng on irc sometime this week to do > so, that would be great, too. i'd like to end up with some basic recipes > on getting the KDE Dev Platform on MeeGo along with a slide presentation > for the technical management, and i'm willing to do a lot of the writing > if we can scrape together the technical information. > > i'm available all of tomorrow and the next day to work on this. who will > help out? i'll be here as well of course :p -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
