Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-01 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/1 Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs: Are you sure it works this way? I thought that packages are built with dependencies from unstable in Debian, just like they're built against extras-devel in Maemo. You're right you can't change pinning on the *builder* within the *same* queue, that

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-01 Thread Kees Jongenburger
Hi Andrew and Atilla, On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs wrote: On Saturday 31 October 2009 19:43:40 Andrew Flegg wrote: After working 'til stupid o'clock last night on a new version of Hermes, today someone's found a bug which'll impact a small number of people.

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-01 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/10/31 Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs: I have a small issue with the autobuilder. The whole thing started out by having a package that compiled nice in the SDK but not in the autobuilder due to a versioning mismatch (in my case python-dbus, but it's a generic problem as you'll see). After

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-01 Thread Henrik Hedberg
igor.sto...@nokia.com wrote: I think the problem here is that some braindead system has been introduced, which doesn't account for the actual work being done. And what is the biggest mistake here is that the new system has been put into production before testing it at all. Someone

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-01 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/10/29 Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net: On Wednesday 28 October 2009 22:50:25 Ed Bartosh wrote: Somehow I don't like the idea of doing anything with the package without developer being aware of this. I'd rather implement check on autobuilder side to insure that packages are optified.

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Grimme
Hi, it really looks wrong IMHO if stuff like socat, rootsh, or openssh turn up in the extras repository ready for end-users to be installed. extras should only contain applications that are safe for everyone to play around with. Stuff like this is meant for advanced users and developers. I think

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-01 Thread Martin Grimme
Hi, resetting Karma on a new version leads to one very bad issue, IMHO: Developers of packages with some Karma will hold back bugfix-updates until the unfixed version has reached extras. This should be avoided. Martin 2009/11/1, Henrik Hedberg henrik.hedb...@innologies.fi:

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-01 Thread Henrik Hedberg
Martin Grimme wrote: resetting Karma on a new version leads to one very bad issue, IMHO: Developers of packages with some Karma will hold back bugfix-updates until the unfixed version has reached extras. Guilty as charged. I have actually postponed the release of Mauku 2.0 beta 5,

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 09:30, Martin Grimme martin.gri...@gmail.com wrote: it really looks wrong IMHO if stuff like socat, rootsh, or openssh turn up in the extras repository ready for end-users to be installed. extras should only contain applications that are safe for everyone to play around

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-01 Thread Attila Csipa
On Sunday 01 November 2009 08:23:13 Ed Bartosh wrote: You can try to use python2.5-dbus instead of python-dbus to work around the problem. python2.5-dbus is just a meta package, but it presents only in SDK, which might allow you to avoid installing python-dbus from extras-devel. Been there,

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-01 Thread Attila Csipa
On Sunday 01 November 2009 07:46:55 you wrote: So, you propose to have one more queue, which would use only SDK? Or only Extras? or both? Sorry, your proposal is still unclear to me and I doubt it would be clear for other devs. First we need to decide on whether Extras packages can update

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-01 Thread Graham Cobb
On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:02:34 Ed Bartosh wrote: So, what should we do? My proposal is to make dpkg-buildpackage to call maemo-optify. With this we can solve 2 problems - autobuilder will optify packages and developers will have their packages automatically optified for their local

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Graham Cobb
On Sunday 01 November 2009 10:22:00 Andrew Flegg wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 09:30, Martin Grimme martin.gri...@gmail.com wrote: it really looks wrong IMHO if stuff like socat, rootsh, or openssh turn up in the extras repository ready for end-users to be installed. extras should only

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:35, Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net wrote: On Sunday 01 November 2009 10:22:00 Andrew Flegg wrote: However, if it is clear to users what to expect when they install those apps; and they don't recklessly reduce the capability of the system, I don't think they're that

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Martin Grimme ha escrit: I think it would be best to have another official repository extras-advanced for these things, that comes preconfigured but deactivated on the device, with a big warning that apps in there are meant for advanced users who know what these tools are. I thought

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread David Greaves
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 19:10 -0700, tz wrote: I'm a power user and not the only one. Agreed. And what I used my current tablets for were testing networks and doing other low level stuff, mainly from xterm, but sometimes from python front-ends to linux. So I ported a number of utilities under

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/11/1 Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:35, Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net wrote: On Sunday 01 November 2009 10:22:00 Andrew Flegg wrote: However, if it is clear to users what to expect when they install those apps; and they don't recklessly reduce the capability of

Testing marathon QA Feedback

2009-11-01 Thread Valerio Valerio
Hey, as some know yesterday we did a Extras-testing marathon, in order to get more applications ready to Extras but also to test the QA process elaborated by the community. We had more than 60 testers (around 40 all the time), but not all actively participated, was good to see some newcomers

Re: Testing marathon QA Feedback

2009-11-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Valerio Valerio ha scritto: as some know yesterday we did a Extras-testing marathon, in order to get more applications ready to Extras but also to test the QA process elaborated by the community. We had more than 60 testers (around 40 all the time), but not all actively participated, was good

Re: Testing marathon QA Feedback

2009-11-01 Thread Attila Csipa
On Sunday 01 November 2009 15:20:07 Valerio Valerio wrote: as some know yesterday we did a Extras-testing marathon, in order to get more applications ready to Extras but also to test the QA process Just to chime in, thanks to all the folks taking the trouble to test apps they might personally

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Andrea Borgia
Martin Grimme ha scritto: it really looks wrong IMHO if stuff like socat, rootsh, or openssh turn up in the extras repository ready for end-users to be installed. extras should only contain applications that are safe for everyone to play around with. The application manager already pops up

Re: Testing marathon QA Feedback

2009-11-01 Thread Valerio Valerio
HI, On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs wrote: On Sunday 01 November 2009 15:20:07 Valerio Valerio wrote: as some know yesterday we did a Extras-testing marathon, in order to get more applications ready to Extras but also to test the QA process Just to chime in,

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-01 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/1 Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs: On Sunday 01 November 2009 07:46:55 you wrote: So, you propose to have one more queue, which would use only SDK? Or only Extras? or both? Sorry, your proposal is still unclear to me and I doubt it would be clear for other devs. First we need to

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-01 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/1 Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net: On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:02:34 Ed Bartosh wrote: So, what should we do? My proposal is to make dpkg-buildpackage to call maemo-optify. With this we can solve 2 problems - autobuilder will optify packages and developers will have their packages

Re: Maemo5 on Beagleboard

2009-11-01 Thread Dirk Behme
Tuomas Kulve wrote: Kees Jongenburger wrote: What's your state? Has anyone actually been able to do something with the mouse? Perhaps this helps taken from http://maemo-beagle.garage.maemo.org/alpha.html To make the mouse cursor visible, you should rename the transparent cursor directory:

Re: Maemo5 on Beagleboard

2009-11-01 Thread Tuomas Kulve
Dirk Behme wrote: cut out the libmatchbox2 thing, recompile it and hildon desktop.. and ctrl-shift-x starts xterm and it shows cursor Seems I'm not able to rebuild libmatchbox2 hildon desktop. If somebody could test this would be nice ;) If it works, providing some binaries to exchange

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Pauli Virtanen
su, 2009-11-01 kello 09:46 +, David Greaves kirjoitti: [clip] Alongside 'user/*' I wonder if we should have a 'geek/*' section ? Or make 'user/development' and some other categories only visible if enabled in preferences. Personally I think we're back at the Categories argument that was

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 19:21, Pauli Virtanen p...@iki.fi wrote: What would it take to have the application manager to have a setting Show expert tools that would show/hide these? I'm slightly familiar with the HAM code, it should be fairly trivial. Getting it into users' hands is slightly

Re: Testing marathon QA Feedback

2009-11-01 Thread Ville Reijonen
Hi, just a bit more fuel on the fire :) Just to chime in, thanks to all the folks taking the trouble to test apps they might personally not even be interested in. Is the approval/karma process going to be actually a popularity contest? Popular titles get votes fast, a niche software will

Re: Testing marathon QA Feedback

2009-11-01 Thread Valerio Valerio
HI, some good points, but this isn't easy as it seems, some of the suggestions here involve a lot of resources that maemo.org can't provide right now, in my opinion, lets try to concentrate in the basic improvements, following the actual testing criteria and adopting some improvements. On Sun,

Source code Kernel drivers Maemo 5

2009-11-01 Thread Adrián Yanes
Hi, I was checking the kernel's source realease with Maemo 5 ( linux-2.6.28 ), correct me if I am wrong, but some drivers using in N900 aren't in this kernel's version . (Altought they ara avadaible in to be installed like modules using a deb package). It is correct or I am checking the wrong

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-01 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 1, 2009, at 18:05, Ed Bartosh wrote: 2009/11/1 Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs: On Sunday 01 November 2009 07:46:55 you wrote: So, you propose to have one more queue, which would use only SDK? Or only Extras? or both? Sorry, your proposal is still unclear to me and I doubt it would

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-01 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 1, 2009, at 18:17, Ed Bartosh wrote: 2009/11/1 Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net: On Sunday 01 November 2009 09:02:34 Ed Bartosh wrote: So, what should we do? My proposal is to make dpkg-buildpackage to call maemo-optify. With this we can solve 2 problems - autobuilder will optify

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 1, 2009, at 12:35, Graham Cobb wrote: On Sunday 01 November 2009 10:22:00 Andrew Flegg wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 09:30, Martin Grimme martin.gri...@gmail.com wrote: it really looks wrong IMHO if stuff like socat, rootsh, or openssh turn up in the extras repository ready for

Fwd: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Jeremiah Foster
Begin forwarded message: From: Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com Date: November 2, 2009 12:35:45 AM GMT+01:00 To: Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org Subject: Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle? On Nov 1, 2009, at 12:55, Andrew Flegg

Re: Testing marathon QA Feedback

2009-11-01 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 1, 2009, at 16:22, Andrea Borgia wrote: Valerio Valerio ha scritto: as some know yesterday we did a Extras-testing marathon, in order to get more applications ready to Extras but also to test the QA process elaborated by the community. We had more than 60 testers (around 40 all

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-01 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 1, 2009, at 11:02, Henrik Hedberg wrote: Martin Grimme wrote: resetting Karma on a new version leads to one very bad issue, IMHO: Developers of packages with some Karma will hold back bugfix-updates until the unfixed version has reached extras. This is a real problem that will have

Re: Testing marathon QA Feedback

2009-11-01 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 1, 2009, at 21:50, Valerio Valerio wrote: Maybe this manna/karma thing has been though out, but somehow if feel that the research for similar systems was not done before rolling it out. There seems to be too many holes, and I just though a while. Every serious linux distribution

Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar 2009.44

2009-11-01 Thread Stephen Gadsby
A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla (https://bugs.maemo.org/). 2009-10-26 through 2009-11-01 As of 2009-11-02 Maemo Official Platform contains 2171 items (+48 this week), including 364 open issues (+21 this week): * 230 open bugs (+12 this week) * 6 critical/blocker (no

maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2009.44

2009-11-01 Thread Stephen Gadsby
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla (https://bugs.maemo.org/). 2009-10-26 through 2009-11-01 As of 2009-11-02 Extras contains 636 items (+60 this week), including 296 open issues (+33 this week): * 193 open bugs (+21 this week) * 12 critical/blocker (+2 this week) * 1 easyfix (no

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Benoît HERVIER
Are you all kidding ? seriously ? The bug Way too geeky to present to most users should, IMHO be an 'extras user/*' criteria. Does we need to come back to the old days where each user have his own repository ? To be honest i ll be far away easier to do than the actual one. 2009/11/2 Jeremiah

Re: Source code Kernel drivers Maemo 5

2009-11-01 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Adrián, ext Adrián Yanes wrote: Hi, I was checking the kernel's source realease with Maemo 5 ( linux-2.6.28 ), correct me if I am wrong, but some drivers using in N900 aren't in this kernel's version . (Altought they ara avadaible in to be installed like modules using a deb package). It

SVN Access and Failures

2009-11-01 Thread Nathan Anderson
I started a project on the Garage, I added a senior developer to the project. He is attempting to check something in and it gives him one of two problems. If he uses a incorrect user/pw but then it will reprompt; but if he uses his Garage account it spits back: svn: Commit failed (details

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-01 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: So, I can see this way of implementing this: - give optification scripts to SDK developers and ask them to prepare Debian devkit for Fremantle with patched dpkg-buildpackage as fast as possible. We should prepare a concrete patch against

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Andrew Flegg wrote: Then there's no benefit to having them visible in HAM. The tool which started this discussion, socat, could easily be installed by someone doing `apt-get install socat' as root. Do you know that almost any current Linux distribution has a GUI package

Re: Why should it be so hard and should I even bother with Extras for fremantle?

2009-11-01 Thread Andrew Flegg
Benoît, you wrote: Are you all kidding ? seriously ? The bug Way too geeky to present to most users should, IMHO be an 'extras user/*' criteria. Does we need to come back to the old days where each user have his own repository ? To be honest i ll be far away easier to do than the actual