Community Updates/2008-11-02 - Revision history

Phobie: Community Updates/November 2nd, 2008 moved to Community Updates/2008-11-02: new date format

2009-10-09T14:30:31Z

Community Updates/November 2nd, 2008 moved to Community Updates/2008-11-02: new date format

MinhHaDuong: +link back up

2008-12-13T20:22:59Z

+link back up

Glenn: +cat

2008-11-06T18:52:35Z

+cat

Quickdev: /* Images */ It's not SHR's goal anymore to port 2007.2 apps.

2008-11-03T20:27:23Z

‎Images: It's not SHR's goal anymore to port 2007.2 apps.

Pander: /* Applications */

2008-11-03T11:58:14Z

‎Applications

Pander: /* Images */ 2009.11 corrected to 2008.11

2008-11-03T11:57:21Z

‎Images: 2009.11 corrected to 2008.11

MinhHaDuong: /* Applications */ -WAD file issue, is now packaged in

2008-11-03T11:53:01Z

‎Applications: -WAD file issue, is now packaged in

MinhHaDuong: /* Hardware, community and wiki */ -editor's note

2008-11-03T11:48:53Z

‎Hardware, community and wiki: -editor's note

MinhHaDuong: Wrote header

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Wrote header

MinhHaDuong: /* Images */ tie sentences

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‎Images: tie sentences

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 Hello,
-welcome to the unofficial Openmoko Community newsletter, October 20th to November 2nd issue. Today's headline is: Android is definitely coming to the Neo FreeRunner. Many talented hackers have been working at it quietly this year, and Koolu targets a release this November. We have more news from the distributions, with Qt and FDOM updates, and the testing branch dealing with E repackaging. The number of applications and utilities is growing, a Doom port is just out! System-wise, memory timings and bootscripts received impressive optimizations, and the "echo bug" and "touchscreen jitter bug" were patched.
+welcome to the unofficial Openmoko [[Community Updates]] newsletter, October 20th to November 2nd issue. Today's headline is: Android is definitely coming to the Neo FreeRunner. Many talented hackers have been working at it quietly this year, and Koolu targets a release this November. We have more news from the distributions, with Qt and FDOM updates, and the testing branch dealing with E repackaging. The number of applications and utilities is growing, a Doom port is just out! System-wise, memory timings and bootscripts received impressive optimizations, and the "echo bug" and "touchscreen jitter bug" were patched.
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	* Harald looked at [http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/10/20#20081020-nand_speed optimizing the NAND memory speed timings on the GTA02]:'' Some initial experiments show that the performance can be easily improved by 41%. However, the actual speed (6.59MBytes/sec) is still much lower than the theoretical maximum read performance of 15.64MBytes/sec. It seems there is more room for improvement inside the MTD layer of the Linux kernel.''		* Harald looked at [http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/10/20#20081020-nand_speed optimizing the NAND memory speed timings on the GTA02]:'' Some initial experiments show that the performance can be easily improved by 41%. However, the actual speed (6.59MBytes/sec) is still much lower than the theoretical maximum read performance of 15.64MBytes/sec. It seems there is more room for improvement inside the MTD layer of the Linux kernel.''
	* Finally, uboot is not standing still. Three weeks ago Philipp Hug's [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002531.html patch for booting with an empty battery] and Harald's rework of the DFU-upload code [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=u-boot.git;a=log;h=stable were applied]. According to [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002566.html this thread], the LEDs in the first FreeRunners shipped use more electricity than they should, especially the red one (See the [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware#GTA02v5 production history]).		* Finally, uboot is not standing still. Three weeks ago Philipp Hug's [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002531.html patch for booting with an empty battery] and Harald's rework of the DFU-upload code [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=u-boot.git;a=log;h=stable were applied]. According to [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002566.html this thread], the LEDs in the first FreeRunners shipped use more electricity than they should, especially the red one (See the [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware#GTA02v5 production history]).
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 * October 2008 has come and gone, so I guess that we should start forgetting about 2008.10 and start expecting 2008.11. The showstoppers [https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/milestone/Om2008.10 buglist] is online and  [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002935.html weekly testing reports] are available.
 * The testing image: There has been big changes in E's foundation libraries upstream, so lots of breakage in Testing as E and illume are being repackaged. Breakage as in "The icons, they are all gone ?" That is what testing is for, so people got up to work and it was fixed in a few days, see [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/034881.html this thread] for details about the transition to the new packaging scheme.
-* Om2007.2 is not supported anymore. Most bugs in the Trac related to that distro have been closed with status "community". Here is to you, SHR.
+* Om2007.2 is not supported anymore. Most bugs in the Trac related to that distro have been closed with status "community".
 * The FSO team is in release mood, we expect another milestone soon.

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 * [[Sephora]] settings manager 0.2 alpha 3 released, adds GERMAN localization.
 * [[Mokoko]] yet another media player.
-* [[NeoTool]], a hostside GUI to flash/backup the Neo, was updated.
+* [[NeoTool]], a hostside GUI to flash/backup the Neo, was updated and Ubuntu package has been created.
 * [http://unsyncopated.com/BrainSolvent/Doom%20Port Doom] port for the Openmoko Freerunner Milestone 1 (Alpha) released. See [http://n2.nabble.com/DOOM-For-Neo-Freerunner---1973-tp1444789p1444789.html announcement].
 * Telephone auto-reply scripts were proposed. Kamil send one that replies with a "not available" SMS when one [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/034327.html flips the FreeRunner] face down. Alex showcased a project for a full [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-discOctober/034409.html phone firewall] stack, with GUI.

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 * [[FDOM]]: David et al. [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/034219.html released again], announcing that development moved to a new home. Mirrors added, more needed. FDOM now exists as an installer script: the FDOMizer. It is meant to be run over an ASU 2008.x image or over an existing FDOM installation. In my experience, this script worked rather well, considering it is a first release.
 * [[Qtopia / Qt Extended on FreeRunner]]: Nokia released version 4.4.2 and a bugfix 4.3.3-snapshot. [http://qtextended.org/modules/mydownloads/index.php Downloads], [http://doc.trolltech.com/qtextended4.4/release-4-4-2.html release notes]. There was a filesystem [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/034877.html layout incompatibility] between the 4.4.2 image and the [http://moko.mwester.net/dl.html#kernels latest mwester kernel], so Hypnotize released [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-November/034989.html a working Qt EXtended 4.4.2 image].
-* October 2008 has come and gone, so I guess that we should start forgetting about 2008.10 and start expecting 2009.11. The showstoppers [https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/milestone/Om2008.10 buglist] is online and  [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002935.html weekly testing reports] are available.
+* October 2008 has come and gone, so I guess that we should start forgetting about 2008.10 and start expecting 2008.11. The showstoppers [https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/milestone/Om2008.10 buglist] is online and  [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002935.html weekly testing reports] are available.
 * The testing image: There has been big changes in E's foundation libraries upstream, so lots of breakage in Testing as E and illume are being repackaged. Breakage as in "The icons, they are all gone ?" That is what testing is for, so people got up to work and it was fixed in a few days, see [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/034881.html this thread] for details about the transition to the new packaging scheme.
 * Om2007.2 is not supported anymore. Most bugs in the Trac related to that distro have been closed with status "community". Here is to you, SHR.

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 = Hardware, community and wiki =
-* If you find that the black case is kind of boring, Tobias has a [http://www.opkg.org/specials/ tutorial on how to use printable self adhesive foil]. ''Special note from Minh to Tobias and everybody else: please sign (put your name on) and date (or version) everything you publish. Especially when written using the first person.''
+* If you find that the black case is kind of boring, Tobias has a [http://www.opkg.org/specials/ tutorial on how to use printable self adhesive foil].
 * National Taipei University is starting a bunch of academic projects: [[The Bicycle Motion Information Displayer]], [[Business Card Exchange system]], [[Location-based mobile video streaming system]], [[Dancing With the Mobile Phone]]
 * The [[Tsing Hua OpenLab]] held a workshop on 10/29, following the three GSoC interns at OpenMoko Inc.

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 Hello,
-welcome to the unofficial Openmoko Community newsletter, October 20th to November 2nd issue. Headline: Android is definitely coming to the Neo FreeRunner. Many talented hackers have been working at it quietly this year, Koolu targets a release this November.
+welcome to the unofficial Openmoko Community newsletter, October 20th to November 2nd issue. Today's headline is: Android is definitely coming to the Neo FreeRunner. Many talented hackers have been working at it quietly this year, and Koolu targets a release this November. We have more news from the distributions, with Qt and FDOM updates, and the testing branch dealing with E repackaging. The number of applications and utilities is growing, a Doom port is just out! System-wise, memory timings and bootscripts received impressive optimizations, and the "echo bug" and "touchscreen jitter bug" were patched.
 = Images =
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 * The testing image: There has been big changes in E's foundation libraries upstream, so lots of breakage in Testing as E and illume are being repackaged. Breakage as in "The icons, they are all gone ?" That is what testing is for, so people got up to work and it was fixed in a few days, see [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/034881.html this thread] for details about the transition to the new packaging scheme.
 * Om2007.2 is not supported anymore. Most bugs in the Trac related to that distro have been closed with status "community". Here is to you, SHR.
 = Applications =
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 = Hardware, community and wiki =
 * If you find that the black case is kind of boring, Tobias has a [http://www.opkg.org/specials/ tutorial on how to use printable self adhesive foil]. ''Special note from Minh to Tobias and everybody else: please sign (put your name on) and date (or version) everything you publish. Especially when written using the first person.''
 * National Taipei University is starting a bunch of academic projects: [[The Bicycle Motion Information Displayer]], [[Business Card Exchange system]], [[Location-based mobile video streaming system]], [[Dancing With the Mobile Phone]]
 * The [[Tsing Hua OpenLab]] held a workshop on 10/29, following the three GSoC interns at OpenMoko Inc.
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 * John Lee's team official bureaucratic name is 'optimization' team, but he prefers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgt._Frog Keroro]. [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/034258.html Here is its status update] for first week. They already have impressive boot time improvements (static /dev is a big gain, see Chia-I Wu's [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002950.html experimental fastboot images] that get into Illume in about 50 seconds.). They are working on {{Ticket|2071}}, python loader speed and resume visual feedback. John gave the trac a good lookover and closed more tickets than I can count.
 * Tick merged the fix written by [[User:Treviño|Treviño]] that applied to qtopia-x11 the [[User:Mickey|Mickey Lauer]] suggestions for the 'Echo Bug’ {{Ticket|1267}} in the git around October 15th, it works, can use more field testing. See also the thread [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033312.html Echo issue on OM2008.08 solved] on the community mailing list.
 * He also merged a kernel patch by Dima Kogan that reduces the touchscreen jitter with light presses. See [http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-f528198 improved touch screen useability].
 * Harald looked at [http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/10/20#20081020-nand_speed optimizing the NAND memory speed timings on the GTA02]:'' Some initial experiments show that the performance can be easily improved by 41%. However, the actual speed (6.59MBytes/sec) is still much lower than the theoretical maximum read performance of 15.64MBytes/sec. It seems there is more room for improvement inside the MTD layer of the Linux kernel.''
 * Finally, uboot is not standing still. Three weeks ago Philipp Hug's [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002531.html patch for booting with an empty battery] and Harald's rework of the DFU-upload code [http://git.openmoko.org/?p=u-boot.git;a=log;h=stable were applied]. According to [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002566.html this thread], the LEDs in the first FreeRunners shipped use more electricity than they should, especially the red one (See the [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner_GTA02_Hardware#GTA02v5 production history]).