Thanks Dmitry for the precision. I have just published the announcement in maemo.org:
SIP support and more in the Internet communications software update for developers http://maemo.org/news/view/1184660757.html Can you check that there are not problem downloading the packages? It seems some users are getting problems just trying to download the software (while others and ourselves have no problems, weird). Let me add a message for those of you active in ITT, personal blogs and etc: In this case (and in any release we make of software under development) we encourage you to use the bugzilla component to file any bugs or issues, and this list for developers to comment any other issues. The developers of these releases are watching these reports and this list, and they answer asap. It is not an usual practice at Nokia to release software under development. We are doing this (and we want to do it more) to get deeper in the basic open source development rules: release soon & release often. But as you know Nokia is a strong brand related to finished end user products. We might be questioned if releasing software under development causes indirectly confusion among Nokia customers (aka end users) rushing to install software provided by Nokia that doesn't work as they expect, or even breaks. And perhaps the problems are not even caused by Nokia but by other factors, usual issues of R&D mode like conflict of dependencies with 3rd party beta software (as it looks like it's the case of the issue found yesterday by some users right after the announcement). End users read the issues but perhaps not the solution and explanation given 24h later, and in the meantime Nokia and the Internet Tablets have lost some points from their point of view. This might be expensive in the league Nokia is playing, where 'open source development' is not a key element at all, and it is probably not even quite understood. This is why we want to keep any unstable release under the maemo scope, and this is why you will see that in our announcements we won't save occasions to state that this software is "under development", "for developers", etc, even if it basically works. So please distribute the information as much as you want (we are really thankful about this) but insist as well on the target audience of the new software to avoid confusion and frustrated expectations. Thank you very much. Quim >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ext >Dmitry Rozhkov >Sent: 17 July, 2007 11:01 >To: maemo-developers@maemo.org >Subject: ANNOUNCE: Internet Communications Software Update for N800 > >*Hi, > >Actually, this is not bug. Apparently the guys who report this >problem have also installed additional beta software which is >not compatible with this update. And I suspect that it could >be some packages from the OpenedHand repository, i.e. >'contacts' which depends on */evolution-data-server >(=1.4.2.1.r554-3)/ through libebook. But the package >evolution-data-server is deprecated in the upcoming release in >favor of evolution-data-server-addressbook. >So in order to try the update it would be more safer to flash >the official >4.2007.26-8 image and to install the update on top of this clean image. > >* >BR, >Dmitry > >Quim Gil *<quim.gil at nokia.com ><https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers>> wrote: > >> Hi, I just talked to Naba, currently offline. This issue is >known and >> confirmed now. It is caused by a last minute change. We can't fix it >> tonight but we hope to fix it tomorrow morning asap. > >> As you see this is really software under development, fresh meat >> released publicly to be shared with other developers. Please be >> cautious when recommending this update to end users because this is >> not even a beta release as Nokia understands beta releases >(of end user products). > >> Thanks for your understanding. Sorry for this bug, but at least you >> got the news today. More news to come soon (and if you >happen to be in >> GUADEC come and meet the developers). > >>/ > Unable to install osso-rtcom-beta >/>/ > Application pacakges missing: evolution-data-server >(=1.4.2.1.r554-3) / > >_______________________________________________ >maemo-developers mailing list >maemo-developers@maemo.org >https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
