Community Updates/2008-09-17

Revision as of 13:26, 16 September 2008

Everybody loves Community Updates, but that's a huge endeavour for one person to tackle. So let us try a little social experiment here: community written community update. I posted an outlined list of bullet points, and left it to everybody else to elaborate along the following editorial guidelines:

• Include everything that was hot on a mailing lists at some point since launch.
• Limit each point to three sentences and one link.

MinhHaDuong 14:20, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Software and distributions

• Dale's DFU script started
• FDOM started
• Gentoo started
• Several classic games ported: Duke Nukem 3D, Battle for Wesnoth, DOOM (Coming Soon)
• Debian fso-pkg team is getting full steam ahead
• Qtopia 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 (including echo fix) released
• Google SoC projects released: gestures (includes autorotates the screen !), ReMoKo

Cool mod

• Openmokast
• Bicycle holders

News from the git

• The html access to buildhost.openmoko.org that provided 2007.2 has been discontinued and everything was moved to downloads.openmoko.org. The 2007.2 image is in the folder named to Om2007.11. The 2007.2 repository is at http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/Om2007.2/ .
• 2008.8 + daily updates is getting better and better, working its way towards a bug fix release (milestone tagged 2008.9 in the trac)
• Om shuffling git branches around is about done, .asu.dev is dead wood now.
• New "head" development branch is only basesystem+installer (no phone stack preloaded, even less applications)
• FSO Milestone 3 released
• Planned architecture for next release is Tichy + Paroli + framework .

Documentation team

• Redesigned wiki Main page in time for the Digg day
• Deleting lots of old/unused wiki pages
• Introduced wiki navigation boxes, working on categories
• Learning to use Widimedia. Postponed CSS revision, wondering how to deal with multilinguism better
• More blog added to the planet

Notable fixes

• GPS TTFF bug was fixed soon after launch (what happens to the first batch units then, is there a way / necessity to do the hardware fix ?)
• Keyboard choices in 2008.2 explained
• Workaround found for suspend corrupts SD card partition table (??? Slow the GLAmo clock ???)
• Echo cancelation turned on in TI chip (is that undocumented function in ?)

Hot bugs

• Touch Screen Coordinates not re-calculating correctly on screen Rotation (Every mode except randr -o 0) Patch is available, no package update.
• Using Bluetooth headset is still impossible/hard to do
• Sound is still awfully complicated (alsa.state remains black magic)
• Power management: progress but still far from goal of autonomy in days (full discharge vs. forced load issue, LEDs and buttons use model still in flux, charging while off, fine-grained subsystems sleep...)
• Repeated messages on the mailing lists
• The trac is getting crowded, bug reports numbers are exploding

People

• community-repository is slow to take off: orrery, diversity-wifi, mofi, moko-sudoku, comic-reader, only omview has been added in September.
• Raster left the project. Thanks for your fantastic contribution, we would not be there without E !
• A job offer for an X dev
• Spanish mailing list started.
• French wiki and forums started.
• The Paris meeting was a big success with ~80 attendees.

Business

• A classified section has been started to sell/buy on the wiki
• FreeRunners still seem to sell like hotcakes, they are frequently out of stock.