Thread: A modest proposal for a direction for maemo.org activities
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2011-08-12 , 08:09
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#6
Originally Posted by tekki View Post
* 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
Fremantle is already being worked on. Diablo support isn't at the moment (but see this).

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.

* Make a task force for maintaining a modern kernel for N8x0 devices.
Lots of other projects do that. However a modern kernel is useless for running Maemo due to closed userland bits that rely on Nokia's interfaces.

* 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.
I'm not sure what you're saying, maemo.org should ditch Maemo?!
 

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