Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: 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.

Re: Maemo5 MicroB: javascript API for fullscreen, location, cursor enable?

2009-11-02 Thread daniel wilms
Hi, a little update on this: The GeoLocation API is in general available in mozilla, but there is no specific back-end implemented in Maemo yet to use it. There is now a browser extension, which implements the back-end implementation for the GeoLocation API in extras-devel. It is called

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs writes: Yes, there is definitely a sense of throwing out the baby with the bathwater here - as is, with a sufficiently mature app, NOT applying simple fixes will get the app to the user quicker, and applying the fixes will keep the app AWAY from the

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Flegg
Ed wrote: 2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: Would maemo-optify be part of that devkit as well, or would it be in the rootstrap? I prefer to leave maemo-optify in the rootstrap: that way, we can update it much easier, which is quite important at this stage.

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/2 Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org: Ed wrote: 2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: Would maemo-optify be part of that devkit as well, or would it be in the rootstrap? I prefer to leave maemo-optify in the rootstrap: that way, we can update it much easier, which is

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-02 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/2 Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com: 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

Re: Source code Kernel drivers Maemo 5

2009-11-02 Thread Adrián Yanes
Thanks Quim for your explanation. I am waiting impatient the release, I have a lot of interest in some drivers. Regards, Adrian. 2009/11/2 Quim Gil quim@nokia.com: Hi Adrián, ext Adrián Yanes wrote: Hi, I was checking the kernel's source realease with Maemo 5 ( linux-2.6.28 ),

Re: Testing marathon QA Feedback

2009-11-02 Thread Quim Gil
ext Ville Reijonen wrote: Is the approval/karma process going to be actually a popularity contest? Popular titles get votes fast, a niche software will not. Unless there is regular testing marathons, I think this will be an issue. I believe this problem will be solved as soon as we have

Re: Source code Kernel drivers Maemo 5

2009-11-02 Thread Quim Gil
ext Adrián Yanes wrote: Thanks Quim for your explanation. I am waiting impatient the release, I have a lot of interest in some drivers. Could it be that they are already contributed to OMAP kernel? I believe we are more or less up to date with Maemo 5 kernel contributions. -- Quim Gil

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

2009-11-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com writes: Then Application Manager has to change. It does not scale to have categories when there are thousands of apps. Yes, this is overdue. We also need a way to handle application specific add-ons, like language packs.

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

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:47, Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com wrote: ext Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com writes: Then Application Manager has to change. It does not scale to have categories when there are thousands of apps. Yes, this is overdue.  We also need a way to

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

2009-11-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Pauli Virtanen p...@iki.fi writes: A separate tree of categories could be useful. Though maybe it would be better to name it 'expert/*', and warn in the UI that these are expert tools that really may require expertise to use properly or safely. What would it take to have the application

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

2009-11-02 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:51:25 + Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:47, Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com wrote: ext Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com writes: Then Application Manager has to change. It does not scale to have categories when

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

2009-11-02 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:47, Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com wrote: ext Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com writes: Then Application Manager has to change. It does not scale to have categories when there are thousands of apps. Yes, this is

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

2009-11-02 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:20:41 +0200, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: 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

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: OK, we can make dependency from dpkb-buildpackage to maemo-optify not so strict. If maemo-optify is present it will be called from dpkg-buildpackage. With this approach we can put maemo-optify into rootstrap. Ok, I'll make it like that, then. BTW,

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: OK, we can make dependency from dpkb-buildpackage to maemo-optify not so strict. If maemo-optify is present it will be called from dpkg-buildpackage.  With this approach we can put maemo-optify into

Re: SVN Access and Failures

2009-11-02 Thread Ferenc Szekely
Hello, Nathan Anderson wrote: 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

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: Right way to do it is to include it into SDK rootstrap. Other ways I can think of look hackish. (I think this is a good example of what is wrong with Maemo: normally, we would just upload a patched dpkg and be done with it. Now we have to muck around

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: Right way to do it is to include it into SDK rootstrap. Other ways I can think of look hackish. (I think this is a good example of what is wrong with Maemo: normally, we would just upload a patched

Xournal and Volume keys

2009-11-02 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
Hi, Some people are complaining that Xournal does not intercept Volume Up/Down to actually zoom in/out a note. (I will make it configurable, but I want to discuss this a bit). I believe that, by default, those key should be left to where they belong, Volume settings. Indeed, that's also the

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread Riku Voipio
ext Jeremiah Foster wrote: 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.

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
Yup, surely the system needs to be fixed. I have some ideas, I don't like some of the ones already proposed, and of some of them I do like some pieces, but not others and other pieces could be improved.. But how do we do it ? Here? Talk? Brainstorm? I once stated that it's the developer that

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 15:03, Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.com wrote: But how do we do it ? Here? Talk? Brainstorm? I'd say we've had more intelligent thought and discussion here than I'd expect on this topic on talk; and I don't think the single-threaded nature of brainstorm with the

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net writes: On Thursday 29 October 2009 11:12:45 Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Alberto Mardegan ma...@users.sourceforge.net writes: b) A control file field makes the most sense to control the build process. Agreed. I think dedicated files in debian/

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread Andrea Borgia
Aniello Del Sorbo ha scritto: As Henry did with Mauku, I am doing the same for Xournal. I want it to extras and then I will release a stupid minor bug fix. And nothing will make me change my idea. If there was a button promote to Extras I would have hit it already and a bug fix would already

optify liqbase

2009-11-02 Thread Gary Birkett
hey, i am considering how to optify liqbase and its components. the issue I have is I don't want all the apps to need to change and do not want 100s of symlinks and added complexity when only 1 is needed. assuming the following packages: libliqbase liqflow liqtorch liqcalendar onedotzero

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: ext Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net writes: On Thursday 29 October 2009 11:12:45 Marius Vollmer wrote: ext Alberto Mardegan ma...@users.sourceforge.net writes:   b) A control file field makes the most sense to      control the build process.

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: Please, use dpkg-buildpackage from the current devkit: http://scratchbox.org/download/files/sbox-releases/stable/src/scratchbox-devkit-debian-1.0.10.tar.gz Thjanks for the pointer. I guess I need a special 'host' Scratchbox target to build this sucker,

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: That's the plan so far. autobuilder calls dpkg-buildpackage without checkiing anything, like it already does. Yes, and the modified dpkg-buildpackage would always call maemo-optify-deb --auto without checking anything (except whether maemo-optify-deb

Re: optify liqbase

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 15:42, Gary Birkett liq...@gmail.com wrote: i am considering how to optify liqbase and its components. the issue I have is I don't want all the apps to need to change and do not want 100s of symlinks and added complexity when only 1 is needed. [snip] everything I

Re: optify liqbase

2009-11-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Gary Birkett liq...@gmail.com writes: /usr/share/liqbase/* /usr/share/liqbase/libliqbase/* /usr/share/liqbase/liqflow/* /usr/share/liqbase/liqtorch/* /usr/share/liqbase/liqcalendar/* /usr/share/liqbase/*/* [...] should I just go with the normal splash 100s of optify symlinks? I

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Marius Vollmer
[ Jussi, we would like to get a new debian-etch devkit for Maemo 5 with the attached patch. Please advise how to best go about this. ] ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: I can also help with building devkit if needed. I didn't manage to get the devkit to compile (I didn't see a way to

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread Qole
I really like Marius' ideas. A mature, high-karma app should be able to push bugfixes through the system without all the QA hassles of a new, untested app. Security fixes on high-karma apps should go straight to extras. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: I'd say

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: [ Jussi, we would like to get a new debian-etch devkit for Maemo 5 with the attached patch. Please advise how to best go about this. ] ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: I can also help with building devkit if needed. I didn't

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Flegg
Alan wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: I'd say we've had more intelligent thought and discussion here than I'd expect on this topic on talk Grrr! I hate that kind of talk. It only makes the problem worse. What problem? This mailing list has a

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread Qole
Your reply continues to sound like the middle class moms who argue for private schools. How will our children ever get ahead if they go to that school down the street? It is full of common children who will only slow our gifted children down. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Andrew Flegg

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

2009-11-02 Thread David Greaves
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 06:47 +0100, Benoît HERVIER wrote: Are you all kidding ? seriously ? The bug Way too geeky to present to most users should, IMHO be an 'extras user/*' criteria. I am serious. For goodness sake didn't you spot that the device ships with a Facebook applet? If the device

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 2, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Qole wrote: Your reply continues to sound like the middle class moms who argue for private schools. How will our children ever get ahead if they go to that school down the street? It is full of common children who will only slow our gifted children down.

Re: Testing marathon QA Feedback

2009-11-02 Thread Ville Reijonen
Hi, But the time should be better split. The basic feedback I got from busy Nokia employees with devices, professional experience and willingness to help is that the thumbs up/down should be applied to each QA criteria. Yap, this I suggested. Good that this is verified. So, it should be

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread David Greaves
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: Alan wrote: Grrr! I hate that kind of talk. It only makes the problem worse. What problem? This mailing list has a higher concentration of involved (and affected)

Re: optify liqbase

2009-11-02 Thread Henrik Hedberg
Gary Birkett wrote: this should with 1 symlink or hardlink and will cure all liqbase /opt situations: /usr/share/liqbase/* Why do you need that symlink at all? If you put all your application data into /opt/liqbase (and subdirectories) and you have the control, then all paths can

Re: Maemo5 MicroB: javascript API for fullscreen, location, cursor enable?

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Waelti
Thanks to Nokia for the great input, this works VERY well :-) (!!!) I will shortly post an update of maeMaps on tmo including this function. Can you explain it to me how it works in terms of accuracy? My first queries only gave me a result in the center of Zurich, over 100 km off my current

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-02 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:27, Ed Bartosh wrote: 2009/11/2 Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com: On Nov 1, 2009, at 18:05, Ed Bartosh wrote: Idea of having separate queue for Extras updates sounds more promising to me. Developers might become confused with all this set of

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-02 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 2, 2009, at 15:42, Riku Voipio wrote: ext Jeremiah Foster wrote: 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

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

2009-11-02 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 2, 2009, at 21:17, David Greaves wrote: If the device is to succeed then even people who believe horoscopes must be comfortable using it! You must be a taurus . . . Accidentally presenting them with a network sniffer application is, IMHO, a user experience bug. Does we need to

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-02 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:27, Ed Bartosh wrote: 2009/11/2 Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com: On Nov 1, 2009, at 18:05, Ed Bartosh wrote: Idea of having separate queue for Extras updates sounds more promising to me. Developers might become confused with all this set of

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-02 Thread Graham Cobb
On Monday 02 November 2009 12:16:57 Ed Bartosh wrote: 2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: The buildbot would need to run apt-get install maemo-optify at the right time.  Any idea of how to do that? Right way to do it is to include it into SDK rootstrap. Other ways I can

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

2009-11-02 Thread Graham Cobb
On Monday 02 November 2009 11:28:04 Eero Tamminen wrote: I don't understand why CLI tools need any specific section. That just makes porting (re-compiling) them from Debian more hassle. The value of being able to install them from AM GUI in addition to using apt-get install on command line

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-02 Thread Graham Cobb
On Monday 02 November 2009 21:52:48 Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:27, Ed Bartosh wrote: 2009/11/2 Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com: On Nov 1, 2009, at 18:05, Ed Bartosh wrote: Idea of having separate queue for Extras updates sounds more promising to me.

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-02 Thread Attila Csipa
A bit short on time, so could not reply to many good posts, but would not like to drop out of the discussion... On Monday 02 November 2009 23:24:12 Jeremiah Foster wrote: Attila was asking us to solve problem with updates. And he proposed good solution. Shell we implement it right now or

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-02 Thread Attila Csipa
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 00:02:31 Graham Cobb wrote: Sorry if everyone else understands this but I don't. We have two (in my particular case slightly related) problems. 1) The fact that something builds in the pristine final SDK does not guarantee that it will go through the autobuilder (as

cannot promote pkg for fremantle

2009-11-02 Thread Kimitake
Hi, I just tried to promote milkyway-wallpaper from fremantle extras-devel to extras-testing, so just clicked armel pkg link at maemo.org/packages, but got the following error. Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in

Re: Maemo5 MicroB: javascript API for fullscreen, location, cursor enable?

2009-11-02 Thread daniel wilms
Hi, have a look at the liblocation API documentation [1]. If it doesn't have a GPS fix yet, then it takes other methods into account to calculate your position. In the documentation is the accuracy given. Have you used a SIM-card in the device? 1.