Stable Hybrid Release

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This page is a placeholder to get us organized until we can get a build started.

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Overview

The Stable Hybrid Release (SHR) is intended to be a combination of the FSO, some of the 2007.2 GTK software, and the ASU that provides all of the functionality of the 2007.2 software, but with the stability of the FSO and the new GUI toolkits provided by the ASU. It will probably be based on an ASU build, with the FSO software and GTK end-user apps added.

(We're not married to the idea of using the GTK apps, but they already exist and are more-or-less debugged at least on the UI side. If someone knows of a more stable and/or usable app that's appropriate for the OM, let us know by dropping a comment on the Talk tab of this page.)

Follow the project here: SHR Project Homepage

First steps

The first pass at making the GTK software use the FSO will involve just creating a gsmd workalike that sends commands to the ophoned dbus api from FSO. mickeyterm is an example of another program that lets you send GSM commands through ophoned.

We want to have a build that is stable, so we'll need some standard way of identifying the latest stable pieces of all the different software in the SHR, as well as a way to identify previous released versions of the SHR.

Interest

Here's a list of people who've expressed an interest in working on the SHR. Please add your name (with a link to your user page) if you'd like to help. Also, please put a way to contact you on your user page.

Tasks & status

Here's a list of the tasks for the SHR:

Task Status Owner Helping out Last update
Run the build host Have server CPU time and disk space; just need to talk about git branches paulproteus 2008-07-03
phonekit to ophoned adapter Not started Ainulindale ferric, Wurp 2008-07-08
Test & label good SHR releases Awaiting builds Kevin Dean Nobody 2008-07-05
Set up projects.openmoko.org project for the patch to apply to FSO to make it SHR Done! SHR Project HomePage ferric N/A 2008-07-08
Identify packages to go into SHR Started Anyone & everyone see above 2008-07-03
Identify differences between FSO & 2007.2 that need investigation Started Wurp Nobody yet 2008-07-08
Switch FSO to use the matchbox window manager (as does 2007.2) Started Wurp Nobody yet 2008-07-08

Completed tasks:

Task Resolution When resolved
Set up launcher (home) page and document how to add new apps to it The launcher will be the apps tab of openmoko-today2 2008-07-08

Statuses:

  • Needs owner! - someone needs to take responsibility for this task
  • Not started - someone has taken responsibility, but hasn't done anything yet...
  • Started - someone has started work, but there is nothing usable yet
  • Alpha - it might work, maybe
  • Beta - it probably works most of the time
  • Maintained - a stable release is out there, working on oddball bugs & new features
  • Done - a stable release is out there, no activity on this task now

List of packages included

From FSO:

  • ophoned
  • preferencesd
  • pimd
  • odeviced
  • lots more...

From 2007.2:

  • TODO
  • lots more...

From ASU:

  • TODO
  • lots more...

Project links

SHR Trac Milestone

IRC conversation about how we're using revision control

From 2007-07-07

12:36 < wurp2> Everything *new* goes on OM projects site
12:36 < Ainulindale> I totally agree
12:36 < wurp2> Updates to 2007.2 apps go back into the home svn
12:36 < Ainulindale> paulproteus: no, you're an external cabal all by yourself
                     :-)
12:36 < cb22> anyone planning on drawing up a roadmap?
12:36 < paulproteus> cb22, We can do that in Trac in fact.
12:36 < wurp2> And changes to the underlying release go as patches into our OE
               branch, yes?
12:36 < paulproteus> (or on the wiki page)
12:36 < paulproteus> wurp2, Right
12:36 < paulproteus> mwester, Sanity-check my terminology where I mess things
                     up!
12:37 < Ainulindale> hmmm fuzzy for me but what should go in OM and what should
                     go in OE ?
12:37 <@mwester> Sure
12:37 <@mwester> What do you mean by OM?
12:37 < paulproteus> Ainulindale, New software we write goes in the
                     projects.openmoko.org.
12:37 <@mwester> right.
12:37 < Ainulindale> Ok so the wrapper for example
12:37 < wurp2> Anything stand-alone goes in OM (projects.openmoko.org)
12:37 < wurp2> yeah
12:37 <@mwester> So we will use projects.openmoko.org for as much as we can,
                 and OE to build the distro.
12:37 < Ainulindale> Sounds right to me
12:37 < wurp2> Great!
12:38 <@mwester> We *will not* use the OM git repo, as that is owned and
                 controlled by Openmoko the company...

Reference Material

Personal tools

This page is a placeholder to get us organized until we can get a build started.

Overview

The Stable Hybrid Release (SHR) is intended to be a combination of the FSO, some of the 2007.2 GTK software, and the ASU that provides all of the functionality of the 2007.2 software, but with the stability of the FSO and the new GUI toolkits provided by the ASU. It will probably be based on an ASU build, with the FSO software and GTK end-user apps added.

(We're not married to the idea of using the GTK apps, but they already exist and are more-or-less debugged at least on the UI side. If someone knows of a more stable and/or usable app that's appropriate for the OM, let us know by dropping a comment on the Talk tab of this page.)

Follow the project here: SHR Project Homepage

First steps

The first pass at making the GTK software use the FSO will involve just creating a gsmd workalike that sends commands to the ophoned dbus api from FSO. mickeyterm is an example of another program that lets you send GSM commands through ophoned.

We want to have a build that is stable, so we'll need some standard way of identifying the latest stable pieces of all the different software in the SHR, as well as a way to identify previous released versions of the SHR.

Interest

Here's a list of people who've expressed an interest in working on the SHR. Please add your name (with a link to your user page) if you'd like to help. Also, please put a way to contact you on your user page.

Tasks & status

Here's a list of the tasks for the SHR:

Task Status Owner Helping out Last update
Run the build host Have server CPU time and disk space; just need to talk about git branches paulproteus 2008-07-03
phonekit to ophoned adapter Not started Ainulindale ferric, Wurp 2008-07-08
Test & label good SHR releases Awaiting builds Kevin Dean Nobody 2008-07-05
Set up projects.openmoko.org project for the patch to apply to FSO to make it SHR Done! SHR Project HomePage ferric N/A 2008-07-08
Identify packages to go into SHR Started Anyone & everyone see above 2008-07-03
Identify differences between FSO & 2007.2 that need investigation Started Wurp Nobody yet 2008-07-08
Switch FSO to use the matchbox window manager (as does 2007.2) Started Wurp Nobody yet 2008-07-08

Completed tasks:

Task Resolution When resolved
Set up launcher (home) page and document how to add new apps to it The launcher will be the apps tab of openmoko-today2 2008-07-08

Statuses:

  • Needs owner! - someone needs to take responsibility for this task
  • Not started - someone has taken responsibility, but hasn't done anything yet...
  • Started - someone has started work, but there is nothing usable yet
  • Alpha - it might work, maybe
  • Beta - it probably works most of the time
  • Maintained - a stable release is out there, working on oddball bugs & new features
  • Done - a stable release is out there, no activity on this task now

List of packages included

From FSO:

  • ophoned
  • preferencesd
  • pimd
  • odeviced
  • lots more...

From 2007.2:

  • TODO
  • lots more...

From ASU:

  • TODO
  • lots more...

Project links

SHR Trac Milestone

IRC conversation about how we're using revision control

From 2007-07-07

12:36 < wurp2> Everything *new* goes on OM projects site
12:36 < Ainulindale> I totally agree
12:36 < wurp2> Updates to 2007.2 apps go back into the home svn
12:36 < Ainulindale> paulproteus: no, you're an external cabal all by yourself
                     :-)
12:36 < cb22> anyone planning on drawing up a roadmap?
12:36 < paulproteus> cb22, We can do that in Trac in fact.
12:36 < wurp2> And changes to the underlying release go as patches into our OE
               branch, yes?
12:36 < paulproteus> (or on the wiki page)
12:36 < paulproteus> wurp2, Right
12:36 < paulproteus> mwester, Sanity-check my terminology where I mess things
                     up!
12:37 < Ainulindale> hmmm fuzzy for me but what should go in OM and what should
                     go in OE ?
12:37 <@mwester> Sure
12:37 <@mwester> What do you mean by OM?
12:37 < paulproteus> Ainulindale, New software we write goes in the
                     projects.openmoko.org.
12:37 <@mwester> right.
12:37 < Ainulindale> Ok so the wrapper for example
12:37 < wurp2> Anything stand-alone goes in OM (projects.openmoko.org)
12:37 < wurp2> yeah
12:37 <@mwester> So we will use projects.openmoko.org for as much as we can,
                 and OE to build the distro.
12:37 < Ainulindale> Sounds right to me
12:37 < wurp2> Great!
12:38 <@mwester> We *will not* use the OM git repo, as that is owned and
                 controlled by Openmoko the company...

Reference Material