On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Laszlo KREKACS<laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Risto H. Kurppa<ri...@kurppa.fi> wrote: >> (I understand that Laszlo didn't get the support needed but got some >> of his code rejected -> lost interest.. ) > > I would like to add my 2 cents here;) > > I didnt stopped working on paroli at all, > just my attention was distracted by some hobby project > (home-made electric bike) and I was on vacation in the > last 2 weeks (hence the late reply). > > But I agree, what Mirko is doing, are the worst scenario of > every possible act, ie. stating he is working on paroli, but > his last real work on paroli was exactly two months ago on > June 3, with commit 6b47ad3a17814105e7107dcf7cc30dc4f3584387. > In addition to this he is not responding to emails, especially > which contains programing questions regarding to paroli. (I know, because > I shoot 10-15 emails already to him in these 2 months). > > I have read somewhere some years ago, how to best quit an > open source project, but I cant locate it anymore (nor on > the web nor in my computer). It addressed this very issue, how > to avoid this kind of frustrations. > > I would like to suggest to Qi company (Mirko's bosses;), to > allow (better word: force) Mirko to work on Paroli one hour > per week. To answer questions, and integrate others' works. > > There are many ongoing work, which needs to be integrated into > paroli. There are two branches by Dietrich, namely tacheles > and rebase. Where tacheles needs some very deep (tichy/paroli) > knowledge, to be able to integrate into paroli. > Other seems mostly cleanup. > We should really need some kind of communication platform, > because I for example never met with Dietrich, but I > really like his works (on pyneo.org, I based my gps program > on his "mappad" work. It was he or josch) > > So there are two more possible contributors: Dietrich and josch. > They need some attention, to not lost his interests in paroli. > > I for example have many more or less working programs, which > needs some help to properly integrate into paroli. (I have shoot > an email like 4 days ago to Mirko, but no answer;) > > These are: > - calculator app (already usable) > - gps app, and I would like to develop some predefined gui for > it: walking, running, biking, driving, paragliding > The basics works, I need edje (.edc file) gui for more advanced > things like zoom in, out and panning;) > - note taking app (almost working) > - calendar app (I have some gui sketches) > - some already done (or planned) gui improvements for paroli > - I have some gui ideas, where I need consensus > from Mirko and Angus, one of them is putting topbar at the > bottom. Because the bottom is not really finger usable, so > why waste the valuable space at the top (just under > illume's topbar). And it makes little sense to have two > topbars at the top. > > Mirko: If you want to step back from paroli for some time (months), > please, please integrate people's work before it, and > only leave after. > > There are many things, where we really need you. Im not able to > help Dietrich integrate his dbus based "multithreading" programs. > I (for example) need some tichy help. > > I think everybody got an idea about paroli status. > > Best regards, > Laszlo >
So nobody here has any news from Mirko ? Neither QI-Hardware ? I really like Paroli and would love to see this effort congratulate for example by being integrated into SHR too... but if the maintainer remains w/o news... Laszlo what do you think about a fork to apply your patches ? a continue with welcomed contrib ? -- Steven Le Roux Jabber-ID : ste...@jabber.fr 0x39494CCB <ste...@le-roux.info> 2FF7 226B 552E 4709 03F0 6281 72D7 A010 3949 4CCB _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community