Roland, > Seeing that none of the distro's really do (seeing that they are > produced by hackers who are mostly hacking for their own enjoyment > it's not really surprising and you can't really blame the teams)
I would agree, but what's your solution? The one idea I have is that maybe stable releases are the common denominator: Insist on stable interfaces, crystal clear distinction between stable, testing and unstable branches. That may be one way to bring the hackers and regular users together, since I believe at least a large part of hackers understands and agrees with the value of well maintained stable releases, well tested upgrade paths from one stable release to the next, a clear process of how stuff moves from unstable to testing to stable. It would still require some tough choices though, because there are some that don't care about stable releases (I'm not blaming them same as you - they do this for their own enjoyment). Maybe their stuff stays in unstable forever :-) What do you think? Best Regards, Wolfgang On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 06:16:47PM +0100, Roland Whitehead wrote: > I would recommend that you choose which ever distro keeps their "how > to make your Neo work as a phone for most of the time using this > distro as well as running other standard services reliably" wiki page > up to date and by up to date I mean referring to which ever is the > most useable bootloader, build, kernel currently available even if > that is the daily build. It should also assume that the reader is a > complete novice and is neither a hacker or a linux sysadmin. > > Seeing that none of the distro's really do (seeing that they are > produced by hackers who are mostly hacking for their own enjoyment > it's not really surprising and you can't really blame the teams) > you've got a wide choice. > > This remains one of the main requirements of Openmoko in my opinion > and could be a great way for the non-core-hackers to contribute. > > > Roland > -- > QURU Ltd, London > > > On 8/22/09, Risto H. Kurppa <ri...@kurppa.fi> wrote: > >> Hi Soumik! > >> > >> Depends on what you want to work on, but if you have a freerunner, my > >> suggestion is to install om2009 unstable there (see > >> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009 ) and contribute to Paroli for a > >> start (see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Paroli ). That'd be very > >> beneficial for many and you'd get easily in in the develpment for > >> Freerunner. > >> > >> You're welcome to join #paroli irc-channel for discussion. > >> > >> > >> (and I know, others will recommend you other distros like SHR or > >> Debian - but I was first :) > >> > >> r > >> > > > > On 22 Aug 2009, at 11:10, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote > > > > Few arguments for SHR over Om2009: more people working on it, develops > > faster, most of decisions are done by community, nice way for sending > > and maintain patches, reachable people maintaining distro (so your app > > can even be added to default image), perspectives for future. IRC > > channel: #openmoko-cdevel > > > > Decision is up to you, but I prefer SHR. Fast, stable, usable - as > > Om2009, but it has also more things behind scenes which Om2009 don't > > have ;) > > > > -- > > Sebastian Krzyszkowiak > > dos > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
