Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Cornelius Hald
Hi! There are some important widgets which are deprecated without a replacement in Fremantle. Those widgets are still available, but they are not fully finger-friendly or don't look good. Developers are expected to implement those widgets by them selfs which could lead us to a situation where we

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
I personally think we're taking a wrong approach to the problem. I am not developing for Apple because of their approval process and their desire of control. I don't want my application to go through an approval process to reach my users. I think that the developer HAS the last work on whether

Re: [Fremantle]: Python Home Plugins Path

2009-09-24 Thread Benoît HERVIER
Thanks. When i do the test it was an older version of the binding. The current one available is more recent. Best regards, 2009/9/24 Brent Chiodo bchi...@gmail.com: Thanks for the information. On 9/23/09, Bruno Araujo bruno.ara...@openbossa.org wrote: Hi, The reason I'm slightly

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Niels Breet
On Thu, September 24, 2009 11:19, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Here's my proposal: We leave Extras-Testing as it is, with votes, comments, bug reports an so on (or improve it, as you wish). But then it's only the developer that decides, based on that feedback, if or not to promote the

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Henrik Hedberg
Niels Breet wrote: On Thu, September 24, 2009 11:19, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Here's my proposal: We leave Extras-Testing as it is, with votes, comments, bug reports an so on (or improve it, as you wish). But then it's only the developer that decides, based on that feedback, if or not to

RE: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread tero.kojo
-Original Message- From: maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Aniello Del Sorbo Sent: 24 September, 2009 12:20 To: Gil Quim (Nokia-D/Helsinki) Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: How to use extras-testing

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
I haven't got Neils e-mail yet. But it looked like that the app gets promoted automatically or stay in quarantine until it reaches enough votes. If it stays in quarantine, I won't go for Extras Testing and I'll miss an opportunity and I propose to remove this limitation. If I have control of the

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Quim Gil
ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: I am not developing for Apple because of their approval process and their desire of control. What is your opinion about Deboan, Ubuntu, Fedora... all of them having also QA processes in place in order to make it to their stable releases? I don't want my

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/9/24 tero.k...@nokia.com: -Original Message- From: maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Aniello Del Sorbo Sent: 24 September, 2009 12:20 To: Gil Quim (Nokia-D/Helsinki) Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: How

RE: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread tero.kojo
-Original Message- From: maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Henrik Hedberg Sent: 24 September, 2009 13:07 Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: How to use extras-testing correctly? Niels Breet wrote: The

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Niels Breet
On Thu, September 24, 2009 12:07, Henrik Hedberg wrote: Niels Breet wrote: On Thu, September 24, 2009 11:19, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Here's my proposal: We leave Extras-Testing as it is, with votes, comments, bug reports an so on (or improve it, as you wish). But then it's only the

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/9/24 Quim Gil quim@nokia.com: ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: I am not developing for  Apple because of their approval process and their desire of control. What is your opinion about Deboan, Ubuntu, Fedora... all of them having also QA processes in place in order to make it to their

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
No wait... The line is a bit blurry. My proposal was based on the assumption that developers are working on their application for the good of the whole Maemo community. They have a moral duty of approving only good quality software and Testing is a good tool to achieve that. I don't want

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Niels Breet
On Thu, September 24, 2009 12:25, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: 2009/9/24 tero.k...@nokia.com: -Original Message- From: maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Aniello Del Sorbo Sent: 24 September, 2009 12:20 To: Gil Quim

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/9/24 Niels Breet ni...@maemo.org: On Thu, September 24, 2009 12:07, Henrik Hedberg wrote: Niels Breet wrote: On Thu, September 24, 2009 11:19, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: Here's my proposal: We leave Extras-Testing as it is, with votes, comments, bug reports an so on (or improve it,

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Donnerstag, den 24.09.2009, 11:48 +0100 schrieb Aniello Del Sorbo: My only complaint is on who has the final word. Again: It is the package maintainer, after his/her package has been given 10 karma points by testers. andre -- Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/9/24 Niels Breet ni...@maemo.org: On Thu, September 24, 2009 12:25, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: 2009/9/24  tero.k...@nokia.com: -Original Message- From: maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Aniello Del Sorbo Sent: 24

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:48, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: 2009/9/24 Quim Gil quim@nokia.com: ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: I am not developing for Apple because of their approval process and their desire of control. What is your opinion about Deboan, Ubuntu, Fedora... all of them having

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/9/24 Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com: On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:48, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: 2009/9/24 Quim Gil quim@nokia.com: ext Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: I am not developing for  Apple because of their approval process and their desire of control. What is your

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/9/24 Andre Klapper aklap...@openismus.com: Am Donnerstag, den 24.09.2009, 11:48 +0100 schrieb Aniello Del Sorbo: My only complaint is on who has the final word. Again: It is the package maintainer, after his/her package has been given 10 karma points by testers. andre -- Andre

Allowed sections for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Luca Donaggio
According to [1], the allowed user/* sections are: - user/accessories Accessories - user/communication Communication - user/games Games - user/multimedia Multimedia - user/office Office - user/other Other - user/programming Programming - user/support Support -

Re: Allowed sections for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:58, Luca Donaggio donag...@gmail.com wrote: But the package interface seems to think differently; the page for grsync [2] says: Section:user/accessories Warning: This package is not using one of the allowed user/* sections! What's wrong? The wiki or the package

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread gary liquid
:) this has been a good informative discussion. since we are working on beta, can i suggest something. anidels point about app feedback *from the device itself* is important. if me as a user selects extras testing and installs a an app because anidel said his new version is there from that

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread gary liquid
please accept huge apologies for spelling of your name Aniello :$ On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:03 PM, gary liquid liq...@gmail.com wrote: :) this has been a good informative discussion. since we are working on beta, can i suggest something. anidels point about app feedback *from the device

Re: Allowed sections for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Ed Bartosh
Hi, Here are new categories suggested by community: http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories Don't ask me why official SDK documentation contains another list :) Regards, Ed 2009/9/24 Luca Donaggio donag...@gmail.com: According to [1], the allowed user/* sections are: user/accessories

Re: Allowed sections for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Luca Donaggio
Thanks Andrew! Luca Donaggio On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:58, Luca Donaggio donag...@gmail.com wrote: But the package interface seems to think differently; the page for grsync [2] says: Section:user/accessories

RE: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Simon Pickering
this has been a good informative discussion. since we are working on beta, can i suggest something. anidels point about app feedback *from the device itself* is important. if me as a user selects extras testing and installs a an app because anidel said his new version is there from

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread gary liquid
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Simon Pickering s.g.picker...@bath.ac.ukwrote: this has been a good informative discussion. since we are working on beta, can i suggest something. anidels point about app feedback *from the device itself* is important. if me as a user selects

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:25 PM, gary liquid liq...@gmail.com wrote: you have installed an app from the -testing repository. you are therefore signing up to be a tester. Or a new version which includes a feature / bugfix you really want is in quarantine. -- Matan Ziv-Av.

RE: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Simon Pickering
you have installed an app from the -testing repository. you are therefore signing up to be a tester. i dont expect normal apps to have this procedure. it is merely a way to expedite feedback Ah yes, forgot this was specific to -testing. Simon

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
Apologies will be accepted in Amsterdam along with a bottle of beer :D 2009/9/24 gary liquid liq...@gmail.com: please accept huge apologies for spelling of your name Aniello :$ On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:03 PM, gary liquid liq...@gmail.com wrote: :) this has been a good informative

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread gary liquid
it will have to be on IOU i have no job, no money, no anything. im actually surprised mrs lcuk let me go at all On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.comwrote: Apologies will be accepted in Amsterdam along with a bottle of beer :D 2009/9/24 gary liquid

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Marius Vollmer
2009/9/24 Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com: All community developed projects have a Quality Assurance process. Debian's, which is what Maemo is based on, looks like this; 1. Submit your app to autobuilders 2. If it fails to build from source, start over at 1 3. If it builds, it

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
I will bring the two bottles of beer and you will bring your free apologies. ;) Aniello 2009/9/24 gary liquid liq...@gmail.com: it will have to be on IOU i have no job, no money, no anything. im actually surprised mrs lcuk let me go at all On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Aniello Del

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Claudio Saavedra
El jue, 24-09-2009 a las 08:28 +0200, Cornelius Hald escribió: I propose to create a garage project, let's say 'hildon-extras' with the goal of creating a library containing missing widgets where more than one person is interested in. I am not sure why you need a new library. We've proposed

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Piñeiro
From: Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de There are some important widgets which are deprecated without a replacement in Fremantle. Those widgets are still available, but they are not fully finger-friendly or don't look good. As far as I remember, we have a conversation with you about the color

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Piñeiro
From: Andrew Olmsted andrew.olms...@gmail.com I have started work on a pannable-font-selector and pannable-color-selector (for lack of better names at this point) with the help and input of some of the folks at #maemo. I want to have a dialog and button for each of them as well as you

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Piñeiro
From: Claudio Saavedra csaave...@igalia.com El jue, 24-09-2009 a las 08:28 +0200, Cornelius Hald escribió: I propose to create a garage project, let's say 'hildon-extras' with the goal of creating a library containing missing widgets where more than one person is interested in. I am

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Andrew Olmsted
I think it would be best if these widgets made it into hildon - people would get the most use out of them. When I get my versions into a more usable state, I will submit them to the hildon team. It should at least be a good starting point. I am modelling my widgets after current and past

Re: Allowed sections for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Thomas Waelti
It is just extremely confusing that http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories#New_list_for_DIABLO shall be the answer for Allowed sections for FREMANTLE? (All Caps by me) I really hope for the sprint, that's why I voted and commented on that bug 5055. Otherwise, I'll have to

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Niels Breet
On Thu, September 24, 2009 13:01, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: I am well aware of that :) But if I go thru extras-testing (and I really want to!) then it looks like the Community has the last word on my application. Yes, they do. It's a community effort, but look at it from the other side. Not

RE: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Igor.Stoppa
From: maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org [maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Aniello Del Sorbo [ani...@gmail.com] Sent: 24 September 2009 12:19 To: Gil Quim (Nokia-D/Helsinki) Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: How to use

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Sep 24, 2009, at 15:13, Marius Vollmer wrote: 2009/9/24 Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com: All community developed projects have a Quality Assurance process. Debian's, which is what Maemo is based on, looks like this; 1. Submit your app to autobuilders 2. If it fails to

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Marius Vollmer
Stoppa Igor (Nokia-D/Helsinki) igor.sto...@nokia.com writes: It's not desire for control here, only for quality. Please remember that this thing still runs on battery. And the iPhone runs on what? Steve Jobs, err, bodily fluids? :) Anyway, of course this is also about control: quality

Maemo at SFD

2009-09-24 Thread Damian Piotr Melniczuk
Hi, my name is Damian Melniczuk and I'm president of AASOC - student organisation which main purpose is to promote FLOSS. We are organising celebration of SFD in Wroclaw in Poland. I think, it will be good idea to promote Maemo at this event. So, we are looking for developer or user who could

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com writes: x.The big fundamental difference between Debian and Maemo Extras is that Debian is producing one big release of a complete integrated distribution, while Maemo Extras is a collection of mostly independent applications that are released

Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?

2009-09-24 Thread Anderson Lizardo
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 1:43 PM, tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: Also I'll take the time to ask Nokia testing to look at the tooling issue. I would like to have some nice set of tools for testing the measurable aspects of applications (like battery usage as Igor pointed out). For battery life

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Cornelius Hald
Hello again and sorry for the delay! I'll try to answer the mails from Claudio and API here. Just too many mails to reply one by one, so I'm replying to myself :P First, my proposal was not meant as a affront towards Igalia or the Hildon team. You have been very helpful in the past and I'm

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Cornelius Hald
This would be my first contribution to the Hildon community widgets: http://zwong.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/check_button.png At the moment it's called ConboyCheckButton, but I will change the name once we come up with something. It has the same features like a HildonButton (2 labels with

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Cornelius Hald
Hi Andrew, I have started work on a pannable-font-selector and pannable-color-selector (for lack of better names at this point) with the help and input of some of the folks at #maemo. I want to have a dialog and button for each of them as well as you suggest, to make it as easy as possible

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Cornelius Hald
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:13 +0200, Piñeiro wrote: Personally I would like to see the following widgets: * HildonExtrasColorButton: A button that looks like a HildonCheckButton, but instead of the check mark it displays the selected color. When clicking this button a

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Martin Grimme
The color chooser dialog is nice for people who know RGB. But regular users don't know RGB so it won't be of much use, actually. A color wheel would be more understandable. Martin 2009/9/24, Cornelius Hald h...@icandy.de: This would be my first contribution to the Hildon community widgets:

Re: Community widgets for Fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Claudio Saavedra
El jue, 24-09-2009 a las 20:56 +0200, Cornelius Hald escribió: Hello again and sorry for the delay! I'll try to answer the mails from Claudio and API here. Just too many mails to reply one by one, so I'm replying to myself :P First, my proposal was not meant as a affront towards Igalia or

problems updating repository fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Gibran Rodriguez
Hello I have installed fremantle sdk but I can not get it updated the repository for x86 target, after the a fresh installation basically I get this [sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] apt-get update Err http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/sdk Release.gpg Temporary failure resolving

Re: problems updating repository fremantle

2009-09-24 Thread Andrea Grandi
Hi, 2009/9/24 Gibran Rodriguez brangi...@gmail.com: Hello I have installed fremantle sdk but I can not get it updated the repository for x86 target, after the a fresh installation basically I get this [sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] apt-get update Err http://repository.maemo.org fremantle/sdk

What's the best attack? (Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?)`

2009-09-24 Thread David Greaves
I realise this is a slightly different question (hence the new subject) OK, say I have an evil twin who wants to attack ('own') a lot of Nokia N900 devices. How do I do this? Does extras-testing factor into this? David tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: - Original message - On Thu,

git push problem at git.maemo.org

2009-09-24 Thread Ferenc Szekely
Hello, This will not be interesting to many of you, but I wanted to reach the largest developer audience. Members from the hildon and modest projects reported that git push fails using the repositories on git.maemo.org. After investigating for a few hours (thanks for help, Alberto [1]) I have a