Hi, as Wolfgang is out of town I jump in and try to summarize what happened last week. Hope you don't mind. ;-)
Bug fixing, bug fixing, bug fixing: Last week our PM plus his Q&A team pushed even harder to get things fixed. 2008.9 was on the way and needed some more love here and there. Finally, it was released yesterday night (Taipeh time). The last days/hours were spent collecting all bits and bytes of information to properly document the changes / improvements / known issues. Everything was made public on our wiki. That is the kind of work nobody wants to do but everybody wants to have. :-) Decentralizing the package maintenance: We noticed more and more hints / patches come in from the community. Sometimes we don't respond within a short time frame - we know that. Developing a phone is a huge task. We simply are too few people to handle all this input. Be patient with us. To improve the situation we were disucssing a more decentralized package maintenance approach. Openmoko would give write access to its own OE tree to community people which maintain packages / bumb up revisions / include patches. Openmoko would centrally build & distribute it. That way Openmoko would give away some of its control but would gain speed in the development process. You would be able to bring in new packages and extend the platform as you wish. One day if your package does not build the build system goes on with the next package. Our admin team is trying to find a way to protect us from vandalism (see: https://admin-trac.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1554) and we have to think about how that could look like in detail. What do you think ? Hiring, hiring, hiring: Also, we are looking at many candidates to hire experienced engineers / people in nearly all fields. We spoke to several mechanical and layout engineers, IT and Q&A people, software developers. We have many open positions but its not easy to find the right mix of attitude, cultural background and expertise towards Open Source. We keep on searching and let you know once new people join us. Marek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
