[MeeGo-dev] MeeGo OBS shutdown - huge thanks and moving on

2013-05-24 Thread David Greaves
cases for our infrastructure tools like OBS, BOSS, IMG etc) - but do talk to us if you have any questions. I'll continue to act as a volunteer sysadmin until the lights go out; it's been an experience and a pleasure working with the MeeGo community. David Greaves / lbt Soon to be ex-MeeGo.com

[MeeGo-dev] The future for the MeeGo OBS

2011-10-12 Thread David Greaves
The MeeGo OBS at build.meego.com is down... again. The MeeGo IT team renew their offer to provide additional service level support for the main OBS. This would allows the community to have some confidence in the continuity and availability of these important services and provides the

Re: [MeeGo-dev] The future for the MeeGo OBS

2011-10-12 Thread David Greaves
wrote: David, The MeeGo OBS is the purview of the Release Engineering team. It has been that way since long before you came aboard the project. If you have concerns about that, please bring it up with the TSG. Ryan -Original Message- From: David Greaves [mailto:da...@dgreaves.com

[MeeGo-dev] TSG Agenda request : Re: The future for the MeeGo OBS

2011-10-12 Thread David Greaves
will not resolve this issue in this email thread. Ryan -Original Message- From: David Greaves [mailto:da...@dgreaves.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 9:29 AM To: Ware, Ryan R Cc: meego-dev@meego.com; brian.war...@linuxfoundation.org; Sousou, Imad; Anas Nashif; meego...@meego.com Subject: Re

Re: [MeeGo-dev] OBS status

2011-08-04 Thread David Greaves
On 04/08/11 16:05, Nasa wrote: - Original Message - 2011/8/4 Nasanas...@comcast.net: Hi, I was wondering if anyone know about the status of OBS? I have been trying to upload files via the web interface without much luck -- it is giving me the following message: OBS Web Interface

Re: [MeeGo-dev] LF will not permit apps.meego.com : say hello to apps.formeego.org

2011-08-03 Thread David Greaves
one tiny inch forward. David Greaves has done the only logical thing when you hit an impasse; fork. I certainly wouldn't consider it a fork - as this unfolded I was working with Niels, Quim and Dawn too. I consider myself as working within the MeeGo project to find a suitable host for our

Re: [MeeGo-dev] [MeeGo-community] LF will not permit apps.meego.com : say hello to apps.formeego.org

2011-08-03 Thread David Greaves
On 03/08/11 20:21, Jeremiah Foster wrote: What is the purpose of formeego.org http://formeego.org? To host apps for MeeGo? The purpose is not yet defined but a starting point may be to identify services that are not sanctioned by the MeeGo trademark owner but which are nonetheless important

Re: [MeeGo-dev] LF will not permit apps.meego.com : say hello to apps.formeego.org

2011-08-03 Thread David Greaves
On 03/08/11 20:12, Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:55 PM, David Greaves da...@dgreaves.com mailto:da...@dgreaves.com wrote: Take a deep breath Jeremiah :) meh. The ad hominem attacks are irrelevant. *that* was an attack? It was meant to remind you that we're friends

[MeeGo-dev] LF will not permit apps.meego.com : say hello to apps.formeego.org

2011-08-02 Thread David Greaves
cc'ed meego-dev as this may be of interest. Followup to meego-community please. Also cc'ed relevant forums. Over the past few weeks a few of us who have been involved in the MeeGo community infrastructure have been trying to solve a problem relating to MeeGo Apps : apps.meego.com After a few

Re: [MeeGo-dev] meego OBS down again... Without Warning?

2011-07-30 Thread David Greaves
On 30/07/11 10:59, Brendan Le Foll wrote: It seems that lately OBS is a strictly Monday to Friday service. Is this the new policy? Can we get some advance warning if this is normal maintenance, and if not what keeps going wrong on saturday/sunday? This is a real pain for people like me who

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo app model in 2012: Rethinking the MeeGo app model to be more platform agnostic

2011-05-31 Thread David Greaves
On 31/05/11 10:25, Carsten Munk wrote: Yes, indeed - I've been fed the usual JVM and JIT knowledge through my university education like many others, but this isn't the approach taken in MeeGo currently as we have to write C++ for our native Qt Quick extensions and we don't have a JVM on each

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo app model in 2012: Rethinking the MeeGo app model to be more platform agnostic

2011-05-31 Thread David Greaves
On 31/05/11 20:32, Michał Sawicz wrote: Dnia 2011-05-31, wto o godzinie 11:34 +0100, David Greaves pisze: We have python. QML can access python objects directly if I understood Thomas Perl's excellent talk. Yes, PySide would definitely be one way. But, as you can probably remember from QA

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Labels on switches widgets considered evil

2011-04-29 Thread David Greaves
On 28/04/11 16:56, Andy Ross wrote: On 04/28/2011 08:04 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: I am distinctly unimpressed by the fact that in GNOME 3 I have to click where it says 'OFF' to make my VPN connect, and click where it says 'ON' to make it disconnect. Can I set up a translation so that _(ON) ==

Re: [MeeGo-dev] howto prevent unrequired build dependency remove when doing local osc builds?

2011-04-12 Thread David Greaves
On 06/04/11 13:15, Mika Laitio wrote: I have setted in my .oscrc build-root = /var/tmp/%(repo)s-%(arch)s If I first build mce locally with osc build armv8el Trunk_Testing, I have in my build root all packages that were required for building the mce on /var/tmp/Trunk_Testing-armv8el But If I

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Architecture decisions (was Re: migration (back) to EDS)

2011-03-25 Thread David Greaves
On 25/03/11 09:11, Ville M. Vainio wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Richard Dale richard.d...@telefonica.net wrote: I personally think that the Nepomuk non-application specific integrated data approach could be a killer feature of MeeGo. In comparison iOS is completely Agreed.

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Packaging the MeeGo stack on Debian - Use the name ?

2010-12-15 Thread David Greaves
On 12/12/10 23:30, David Greaves wrote: I'm cc'ing th meego-community list as I think there are a lot of people there who are having similar conversations. On 09/12/10 19:12, Ibrahim Haddad wrote: The MeeGo Project members devoted quite a bit of time discussing these questions to make sure

[MeeGo-dev] OBS, MeeGo and the social desktop : Application information, feedback and rating

2010-10-28 Thread David Greaves
This is more of an initial exploration than a concrete proposal :) I'll post this to both the opensuse-buildserv...@opensuse.org and meego-dev@meego.com lists. MeeGo is going to be using the Open Collaboration Services (OCS) API. http://www.socialdesktop.org/ocs/

Re: [MeeGo-dev] OBS, MeeGo and the social desktop : Application information, feedback and rating

2010-10-28 Thread David Greaves
On 28/10/10 11:46, Ville M. Vainio wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, David Greavesda...@dgreaves.com wrote: As I say, the use-case is something around providing feedback from the application launcher on the device; maybe an on-device popup that allows a star rating, comment etc that is

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Trademark compliance, name usage, etc.

2010-09-23 Thread David Greaves
On 23/09/10 20:05, Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:20:27PM -0500, Ibrahim Haddad wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Dave Nearydne...@maemo.org wrote: Ibrahim Haddad wrote: You can apply patches against components in the MeeGo Core stack and you can add new components but not

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Trademark compliance, name usage, etc.

2010-09-23 Thread David Greaves
On 21/09/10 04:34, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 08:20:48PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: my understanding is that the license field in the (binary) RPMs contains restricted for these, with a detailed license inside the package. Do you have a list of which packages these are, or are

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-18 Thread David Greaves
Allow me to invert this email and suggest some prioritisation. On 18/09/10 01:09, Skarpness, Mark wrote: What we have been discussing on this thread is the guidelines themselves... Good point ... and I have made one of the very few concrete proposals for wording in this thread ... and AFAICS

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-17 Thread David Greaves
On 17/09/10 17:58, Skarpness, Mark wrote: On Sep 16, 2010, at 1:38 PM, David Greaves wrote: On 16/09/10 19:50, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: If no external dependencies are allowed, the device vendor only has the burden of providing the core api. Since every device provides this api, every compliant

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 16/09/10 11:26, Arjan van de Ven wrote: But to be honest, I somewhat doubt that hardware vendors or the operators will think more than a few seconds and just not enable it, even if they were to take the OS nearly directly from meego.com Precisely. Whereas if apps linking to Surrounds were

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 16/09/10 11:52, Counihan, Tom wrote: [mailto:meego-dev-boun...@meego.com] On Behalf Of Arjan van de Ven Sent: 16 I think that in practice, phones will be locked down and the content you can get on it controlled by the operator and/or OEM. Yes there will be some people who will buy an unlocked

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 15/09/10 23:59, Skarpness, Mark wrote: I view it the other way around: what requirements is compliance placing on the device manufacturer and are those reasonable and supportable. Setting the details of how compliant apps are packaged and delivered aside - compliance does not dictate

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Compliance spec and 3rd party dependencies: why are we all fighting?

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 16/09/10 13:55, Carsten Munk wrote: So, I have personally lost complete track of the spec thread and decided to re-read the actual spec draft, that is, http://wiki.meego.com/images/MeeGo-Compliance-Spec-1.0.80.8.pdf After doing this, I'm wondering what exact wording in the spec we're

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 16/09/10 15:28, Anas Nashif wrote: On 2010-09-16, at 12:20 PM, David Greaves wrote: On 16/09/10 11:52, Counihan, Tom wrote: The IVI vertical reflects the above, OEMs will most likely always lock down, primarily driven from safety concerns - litigation and publicity concerns over

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 16/09/10 17:24, Skarpness, Mark wrote: On Sep 16, 2010, at 4:36 AM, David Greaves wrote: So... a vendor has the freedom to forbid certain MeeGo compliant apps on their device/store? Yes Good. If MeeGo then permits Surrounds-dependent apps to be labelled Compliant

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 16/09/10 19:09, Skarpness, Mark wrote: If the 2nd differs because it depends on the first one then what additional burden exists? As we have discussed repeatedly - the burden that a device must provide a way to install the second app (or dependency). Can we agree our goals? I think we

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 16/09/10 20:06, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On 9/16/2010 11:44 AM, David Greaves wrote: On 16/09/10 19:09, Skarpness, Mark wrote: If the 2nd differs because it depends on the first one then what additional burden exists? As we have discussed repeatedly - the burden that a device must provide

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 16/09/10 21:00, Skarpness, Mark wrote: On Sep 16, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Andrew Flegg wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 19:09, Skarpness, Markmark.skarpn...@intel.com wrote: On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:42 AM, David Greaves wrote: If I make a package that is api-compliant and self-contained and put

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 16/09/10 21:05, David Greaves wrote: On 16/09/10 20:06, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On 9/16/2010 11:44 AM, David Greaves wrote: On 16/09/10 19:09, Skarpness, Mark wrote: If the 2nd differs because it depends on the first one then what additional burden exists? As we have discussed repeatedly

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 16/09/10 19:50, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: If no external dependencies are allowed, the device vendor only has the burden of providing the core api. Since every device provides this api, every compliant app is guaranteed to be able to run on the device. If a developer wants an application to run on

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
(high latency due to draft email hiding behind open windows) On 16/09/10 15:03, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On 9/16/2010 4:06 AM, David Greaves wrote: On 16/09/10 11:26, Arjan van de Ven wrote: But to be honest, I somewhat doubt that hardware vendors or the operators will think more than a few

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-16 Thread David Greaves
On 16/09/10 23:13, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On 9/16/2010 3:05 PM, David Greaves wrot That is indeed why I said Nokia, not Vodafone. Vodafone probably won't allow Surrounds/Extras (initially) - but at the idea is that at least they won't be able to say you're not compliant. Nokia, as you know

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-15 Thread David Greaves
On 15/09/10 19:16, quim@nokia.com wrote: Why game using as example box2d physics library should not called MeeGo compliant ? And it is just example of dozens similar helper libraries used by game and graphics developers. Because box2d is not included in MeeGo and a user of a MeeGo

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-14 Thread David Greaves
sorry - the quote attribution seems messed up. On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote: On 14/09/10 20:19, Skarpness, Mark wrote: On 09/13/2010 11:53 PM, Quim Gil wrote: On 09/13/2010 12:04 PM, ext Alexey Khoroshilov wrote: Just to clarify, snip all API that MUST be

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-14 Thread David Greaves
On 14/09/10 23:34, Skarpness, Mark wrote: On Sep 14, 2010, at 2:09 PM, David Greaves wrote: Allowing applications to have arbitrary external dependencies that are resolved at install time adds a great deal of complexity and uncertainty for a device manufacturer (substitute MeeGo software stack

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-13 Thread David Greaves
Bearing in mind that all of this is 100% permissible anyway; we are simply asking is it still a MeeGo app if you build using the community managed libs. I think we're proposing that apps that build using APIs in the MeeGo Core *or* in MeeGo Extras[1] are allowed to be called MeeGo apps.

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-13 Thread David Greaves
On 13/09/10 21:58, Arjan van de Ven wrote: so here is a catch; if it is part of Extras and real apps depend on it, suddenly no security updates is absolutely not an option. See my mail a few minutes ago about scoping and responsibility. Nothing forces real apps to depend on Extras/Surrounds.

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-13 Thread David Greaves
On 13/09/10 22:28, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On 9/13/2010 2:18 PM, David Greaves wrote: On 13/09/10 21:58, Arjan van de Ven wrote: if apps can depend on Extras being there, suddenly the OS size for the device becomes much bigger. Not the amount present at ship time, but the amount the OEM needs

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-09 Thread David Greaves
On 08/09/10 15:00, Wichmann, Mats D wrote: Warren Baird wrote: Seems to me like the wind is blowing in the other direction, at least on this mailing list... yes it is, I didn't mean to imply otherwise. more that the architects has seem pretty set on this idea. Can I echo who said what?

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

2010-09-09 Thread David Greaves
On 09/09/10 12:32, Ville M. Vainio wrote: On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Dave Nearydne...@maemo.org wrote: Making Extras a blessed repository of packages would nicely solve that issue - you can restrict further dependencies to libraries which are included in the core, or MeeGo compliant

Re: [MeeGo-dev] non SSSE3 MeeGo

2010-08-12 Thread David Greaves
On 12/08/10 00:06, martin brook wrote: Hi, After a lively discussion on #meego (http://mg.pov.lt/meego-irclog/%23meego.2010-08-11.log.html from 21:17) I have created a wiki page to further community developmet of a non SSSE3 Meego build. http://wiki.meego.com/Devices/nonSSSE3 If you can help

Re: [MeeGo-dev] [MeeGo-community] Open Letter/Proposal to allow Maemo on the MeeGo Community OBS

2010-08-03 Thread David Greaves
://wiki.meego.com/Build_Infrastructure/Community_Builder/Installation On 15/06/10 18:16, David Greaves wrote: This is an open letter to the whole MeeGo community and on behalf of the Maemo development community. The purpose of this letter is to ask the MeeGo community for their permission to bring

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Community OBS looking for beta testers

2010-07-14 Thread David Greaves
Quick follow up... Due to the stunning download speed (50kbs) from the meego repos it took more than my allotted sunday to get the repos for :current in place. Then we had a couple of minor issues to fix. However, it now appears that building against :1.0 and :current work. Let us know as

[MeeGo-dev] Community OBS looking for beta testers

2010-07-11 Thread David Greaves
Hi We're looking for beta testers for the community OBS. The current focus is on ensuring non-core apps (and libs) can be built against MeeGo and Maemo. We need people who know how to use the OBS and can identify (and ideally help fix) issues. Please contact me or Neils if you can help;

Re: [MeeGo-dev] OBS

2010-07-08 Thread David Greaves
On 08/07/10 17:11, William Mills wrote: I was planning to follow this procedure: http://wiki.meego.com/Build_Infrastructure/Sysadmin_Distro/OBS1.8_setup_openSUSE112 However it says You need an login to build.meego.com to execute this script.

[MeeGo-dev] Changelog formatting (was Re: [meego-packaging] 4899: Changes to MeeGo:1.0:Netbook:Update:Testing/evolution ACCEPTED)

2010-06-27 Thread David Greaves
(note cross-posting - I don't think all devs are on meego-packaging) Just picking on this as a typical example: On 27/06/10 09:45, Peter Zhu wrote: submit: home:mmeeks:branches:MeeGo:1.0:Netbook:Update:Testing/evolution(r8)(cleanup) - MeeGo:1.0:Netbook:Update:Testing/evolution

Re: [MeeGo-dev] multimedia architecture

2010-06-23 Thread David Greaves
On 22/06/10 16:32, Tomas Frydrych wrote: This is entirely irrelevant; MeeGo *is* Linux, and we are not discussing Qt architecture here, but MeeGo architecture. Ultimately the MeeGo architecture must make engineering sense in itself, and should not be restricted by the limitations that Qt is

[MeeGo-dev] Open Letter/Proposal to allow Maemo on the MeeGo Community OBS

2010-06-15 Thread David Greaves
* To *not* require any such EULA for 'MeeGo-only' accounts on the service I've run this by Tero Kejo in Nokia and he's very supportive of the idea. From: David Greaves / lbt Community Member and build systems guy. Niels Breet / X-Fade maemo.org webmaster and autobuild owner

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Forum / mail integration (was MeeGo Summit - Structured brainstorming...)

2010-06-04 Thread David Greaves
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 10:19 +0100, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Andrew Flegg wrote: Personally, I prefer mailing lists (which is why it galls me to be top posting on this stupid BlackBerry), however the Internet's moved past 1996 and fora, despite all their comparitive flaws, are the masses'

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Summit - Structured brainstorming format in the form of BOFs and Wiki Specs.

2010-06-03 Thread David Greaves
On 03/06/10 10:05, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Dirk Hohndel wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 02:04:23 -0600, Andrew Fleggand...@bleb.org wrote: Firstly, this would probably be best on the forum - or meego-community at a push - as this is where the conference is being planned. Is it? That's a bummer as

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Forum / mail integration (was MeeGo Summit - Structured brainstorming...)

2010-06-03 Thread David Greaves
On 03/06/10 14:16, quim@nokia.com wrote: GET THE BLOODY THING FIXED! You did trim the next line where I said Please :) ... but OK, that didn't come off - I apologise if my poor attempt at humour offended anyone. Reggie said that Forum/Mail integration would require more server power and

Re: [MeeGo-dev] I have a question why is mono included in meego what legal status prevents its default include in likes of Fedora.

2010-05-29 Thread David Greaves
On 29/05/10 11:35, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: Hey guys, Just an FYI, but this is just a troll-attempt by the BoycottNovell trolls: http://techrights.org/2010/05/28/meego-dot-net/ oiaohm Posted question to meego developers over mono. schestowitz Probably explains the other Mono hostility that

Re: [MeeGo-dev] I have a question why is mono included in meego what legal status prevents its default include in likes of Fedora.

2010-05-29 Thread David Greaves
On 29/05/10 13:21, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: I didn't respond to the questions because it seems the other responses have already answered. As others have pointed out, Fedora not shipping Mono in their LiveCD has nothing to do with legal issues as was disingenuously insinuated in the original

Re: [MeeGo-dev] open development of meego

2010-05-28 Thread David Greaves
On 28/05/10 18:46, Dirk Hohndel wrote: My argument for openness won, but frankly, I'd like to know if we called this correctly - is it better to do open early, sort it out in public or would people prefer get it right, on the correct domain - we'll wait for it. This way we can learn for the next

[MeeGo-dev] MeeGo.com OBS access request

2010-05-25 Thread David Greaves
Hi Anas Could you (re)open the api service for the community OBS. This service is still in closed beta so we won't be hammering on the main OBS. What information do you need? David -- Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once...

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo compliance

2010-05-24 Thread David Greaves
On 23/05/10 20:32, Graham Cobb wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 18:50:01 Jeff Licquia wrote: There could be an issue with newer MeeGo releases, say a MeeGo 1.1 app running on a MeeGo 1.0 device. But there are other hurdles to cross if we want to support that model (what to do with new 1.1

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo compliance

2010-05-24 Thread David Greaves
On 24/05/10 11:11, Jeremiah Foster wrote: On May 24, 2010, at 10:48 AM, David Greaves wrote: On 23/05/10 20:32, Graham Cobb wrote: On Wednesday 19 May 2010 18:50:01 Jeff Licquia wrote: (...) The ability to target multiple distros (or distro releases) from a single project is one

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Packaging Policy : A process proposal

2010-05-22 Thread David Greaves
On 22/05/10 00:35, Graham Cobb wrote: David, A few questions/comments: 1) It is not clear whether this is policy for Meego core packages or for community packages (or both). I assume it is Core, as that is all that exists at the moment. And if we end up with multiple community repositories

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Packaging Policy : A process proposal

2010-05-22 Thread David Greaves
On 22/05/10 00:35, Graham Cobb wrote: David, A few questions/comments: 1) It is not clear whether this is policy for Meego core packages or for community packages (or both). I assume it is Core, as that is all that exists at the moment. And if we end up with multiple community repositories

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Packaging Policy : A process proposal

2010-05-20 Thread David Greaves
Warren Baird wrote: Seems to me that using a wiki to host a formally controlled policy document doesn't make a lot of sense - seems like we aren't using the right tools for the job. I suspect that the packaging policy isn't the only place this might come up. Should formal policies be

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Packaging Policy : A process proposal

2010-05-20 Thread David Greaves
Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Warren Baird wrote: On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:28 PM, David Greaves da...@dgreaves.com wrote: OTOH a wiki has a 'talk' page; the ability to trivially host 'draft' versions of pages nearby; email notification of changes; and I've proposed a reasonable process

[MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Packaging Policy : A process proposal

2010-05-19 Thread David Greaves
is actually a bug in a package (or the guidelines). * At the moment the wiki policy simply reflects 'random' contributions (eg: some of which I, David Greaves, unilaterally inserted); this is not appropriate for a policy document. Policy: * The MeeGo packaging policy on the wiki

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Btrfs as default file system

2010-05-12 Thread David Greaves
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On 5/12/2010 12:22, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:09:16PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 02:00:46PM +0300, Ameya Palande wrote: Btrfs is highly experimental, and THE DISK FORMAT IS NOT YET FINALIZED. You should say N here unless you are

Re: [MeeGo-dev] List of MeeGo compatible devices

2010-05-10 Thread David Greaves
Quim Gil wrote: Hi, erkanyilmaz start this useful wiki page http://wiki.meego.com/Compatible_devices_with_MeeGo Please help completing it. Is compatible with MeeGo? is one of the FAQ from people with a mobile device (mainly netbooks) or thinking of buying one. You mean like this

Re: [MeeGo-dev] List of MeeGo compatible devices

2010-05-10 Thread David Greaves
Robin Burchell wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:50 AM, David Greaves da...@dgreaves.com wrote: Quim Gil wrote: Hi, erkanyilmaz start this useful wiki page http://wiki.meego.com/Compatible_devices_with_MeeGo Please help completing it. Is compatible with MeeGo? is one of the FAQ from

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Community repositories kicking off

2010-05-01 Thread David Greaves
JD Zheng wrote: It is another reason for providing a community OBS to allow a *massively* easier core code development processes: * install/setup osc/build for Debian/Suse/Ubuntu/Redhat/MeeGo/... * osc co Trunk package cd Trunk/package * osc build * get rpm

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Let's discuss the build.meego.com open

2010-04-30 Thread David Greaves
An Yang wrote: hi Greg, This email maybe off topic, but I think it's meaningful for meego build process. If somebody won't see it, I will talk to Greg in private email. The mailing list is fine OBS has two means: 1. OBS as a software running on build.opensuse.org, it's open or not, I'm

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Let's discuss the build.meego.com open

2010-04-30 Thread David Greaves
Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:59 AM, David Greaves wrote: MeeGo core OBS will not be open to any user; invitation only based on merit. Please define 'merit' in clear, explicit terms in a public forum so that community members might understand what you mean. Google

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Let's discuss the build.meego.com open

2010-04-30 Thread David Greaves
David Greaves wrote: Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:59 AM, David Greaves wrote: MeeGo core OBS will not be open to any user; invitation only based on merit. Please define 'merit' in clear, explicit terms in a public forum so that community members might understand what you

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Let's discuss the build.meego.com open

2010-04-30 Thread David Greaves
Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:31 AM, David Greaves wrote: David Greaves wrote: Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:59 AM, David Greaves wrote: MeeGo core OBS will not be open to any user; invitation only based on merit. Please define 'merit' in clear, explicit

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Community repositories kicking off

2010-04-30 Thread David Greaves
JD Zheng wrote: Hi, A few questions: 1) Is this community OBS used for community app only? Or it can be used for testing/patching official MeeGo packages? Good question. I would expect a similar policy to the openSuse service which is anything OSS. I have no idea if we'll have any other

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Repository Working Group - next steps

2010-04-28 Thread David Greaves
Clint Christopher Cañada wrote: +1 from me. It looks like the best term so far. On 4/28/2010 1:15 PM, Quim Gil wrote: ext Graham Cobb wrote: why don't we call this the Community Repositories Team. +1 Quim Gil wrote: understands it. ;) Surrounds is indeed poetic but We

Re: [MeeGo-dev] can't install grub when installing meego system into the hard disk by liveusb.

2010-04-27 Thread David Greaves
Zhang, Austin wrote: Meego didn't use grub as below said. If you are partitioning _manually_, please don't format '/' as ext3 instead as btrfs, and please have a separated '/boot' formatted as ext3. Be careful with btrfs still. df: /dev/root 920M 651M 269M 71% / du -shx /

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Repository Working Group - next steps

2010-04-27 Thread David Greaves
Quim Gil wrote: Hi, ext David Greaves wrote: quim@nokia.com wrote: Hi, I think we have a mismatch between the name and the content. How to call this? Names carried from maemo.org or moblin.org would be Downloads, Extras or Garage. Apps, Addons, Catalog are also used in similar

Re: [MeeGo-dev] [PATCH] Fix ARM N900 build

2010-04-20 Thread David Greaves
Arjan van de Ven wrote: +n900: kernel.spec.in series makespec.pl +@touch N900; +@perl makespec.pl kernel.spec.in kernel-n900.spec ; why make a separate spec like this? sounds completely unneeded to me for arm it will only build the n900 anyway right now -tmp-arm-config:

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Security

2010-04-14 Thread David Greaves
Sebastian Lauwers wrote: Any security can be broken. I could go on and rant about how even with hardware tokens generating an OTP that unlocks a smartcard which contains the certificates used to encrypt a connection and authenticate a user to a remote server can be compromised. It takes a

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Security

2010-04-14 Thread David Greaves
Ware, Ryan R wrote: For the moment, I believe we should be less formal although as the community grows I can definitely see the call for a formal working group. Like this one: http://wiki.meego.com/Security_interest_group oh, wait, I just made that :) I plan on reviewing security aspects

Re: [MeeGo-dev] How to send a signal when i click the desktop?

2010-04-04 Thread David Greaves
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Re: [MeeGo-dev] Day 1 is here - opening up the MeeGo development

2010-03-31 Thread David Greaves
Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:07:11PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:48:52PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 07:41:26PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: It's there when you select a branch in the web ui, see e.g.

Re: [MeeGo-dev] Meego Market?

2010-03-29 Thread David Greaves
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 09:07 +0200, tero.k...@nokia.com wrote: -Original Message- From: meego-dev-boun...@meego.com [mailto:meego-dev-boun...@meego.com] On Behalf Of ext Samir Faci (Dev) I'm just wondering how the market will be sanitized. Is anything going to put in place to

Re: [MeeGo-dev] N900 Questions...

2010-03-19 Thread David Greaves
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 04:51:20PM +0100, Tomasz Sterna wrote: Reductio ad absurdum: Should MeeGo provide an app for plasma gun if some vendor equips its device with one? If not, I will be glad to write a driver for such a device if needed. I take it the usual proviso about