A modest proposal for a direction for maemo.org activities
I have seen quite a lot of discussion about direction of maemo.org and I thought I would pitch in.
My proposal is simple: * Make a task force to submit and maintain OBS support for Diablo and Fremantle. That would then be contributed to apps.formeego.org, providing a direction for Extras and autobuilder. If Harmattan support already exists, D and F support cant be difficult * Make a task force for maintaining a modern kernel for N8x0 devices. 770 is a lost cause due to binary wifi driver ** This enables all sorts of opportunities for these devices. If asked, I am convinced builds for let's say MeeGo of closed source binaries can happen. * Stop caring about a codebase (Maemo) that is ancient, unmaintained and too heavy to upkeep legally, hosting wise, etc and ridden with nonredistributable closed source. This includes Hildon stack which is really difficult to recreate (see failure of Mer) and even those who got 50k EUR from Nokia to do something about Hildon does not provide a path for applications to rebuild on, making it useless for maemo.org. * Propose people to base efforts for N900 on the MeeGo hardware adaptation. UI can be the CommunityEdition one or one made by maemo.org community. The hw adaptation team is maintaining the device near parts and not going away. If we dont call our product MeeGo we can do whatever we want with it. We can even be seperate from the MeeGo project if we so desire. But the code base is fine and well functioning for our devices, and open source. The maemo.org spirit is to do exciting things with our devices. Let us innovate, not get stuck in the past. Your thoughts on my tangible proposal? |
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If system base will work equally good. The problem remains with GUI (Nokia has claimed that freemantle was just ot heavy on resources), and possible web browser, since N810 has only 128M of RAM. Maybe we can think about creating a really lightweighted GUI, on order to save as much memory for applications as possible. See: http://cordiahd.org/os/about |
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The question is how much the applications are dependant on GLESv2. BTW: I am willing in joining the effort (C/C++ + some experience with embedded platforms development (arm7, arm9) + usual linux stuff). Are you willing on joining as well? |
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However I'm not convinced that OBS is the way to go, as it will certainly need a lot of work, possibly even on the package side, and we don't have enough volunteers to do it. The current autobuilder at least is a known quantity and works so we just need to transplant it to a new box somewhere and look after it from time to time. Quote:
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Give me some good points why we should at all care about the closed OS and how the 3-6-12-18 month timeline looks like for the effort. My opinion is that any Maemo based effort is not sustainable or worth it in the big picture. I would love to be convinced otherwise. Even SHR has a better outlook than Maemo. Open platform is the way to go, IMHO. Best thing people can do is to gather together and build our own user experience. |
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Even cordia is meego based |
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i'm afraid your proposal lacks one fundamental prerequisite... a governing body. you can see it for yourself with this thread you started with a clear proposal directed towards action (task forces...). the outcome is some chipping on technical details, which may be interesting in themselves but are not addressing the issue at hand, the lack of direction, perspective, vision, call it whatever you want for maemo.org. it has been repeated ad nauseam that the council is not a governing body. before you can hope to get anywhere, you need to get a consensus as to where the community has to go. i think NOKIA, the former governing body of sort for maemo has made a choice (moving on even though that doesn't mean they will not continue to support maemo.org for the sake of supporting customers who bought MIDs and are still using them). (having users begging for help with some trivial dpkg issues is not sending the right message here, btw...) one option is to follow NOKIA and move on to the next thing which is probably going to accelerate maemo.org's demise. another option would be look around. debian... found a paper that discusses debian's governance and its evolution over time... Quote:
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