Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-08 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Jul 7, 2010, at 18:28, Thiago Macieira wrote: On Wednesday 7. July 2010 14.22.56 Nicola Mfb wrote: Just for example and fun, there is an alpha totally free linux distribution (coded in the spare time by very few guys where I contribute) that runs on the OpenMoko freerunner since september

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-08 Thread Attila Csipa
On Wednesday 07 July 2010 18:51:59 Dirk Hohndel wrote: In reality we are giving a HUGE gift to competitors here. But we are being attacked for that huge gift not being 100% complete. It feels like an alternative reality at times. Intel has put hundred of man years of development into this

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-08 Thread Carsten Munk
2010/7/6 Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org: But I'd like to plea for you think about something while you're relaxing. Just something for you to keep in mind for when you're back at your desk. That is, to remember that we are supposed to be doing, random citations from around the website: Backing

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-08 Thread Eli Foley
join someone else's project, don't start your own That is true for a lone developer, but when you already have multiple development teams and communities, it's a slightly different argument. MeeGo is pushing some radical new ideas about UI design that would be difficult to get pushed through an

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-08 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On 08/07/2010 14:25, Eli Foley wrote: MeeGo is pushing some radical new ideas about UI design that would be difficult to get pushed through an established project. I think MeeGo has every right to exist as its own project and there are plenty of good reasons to start with moblin instead of

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 7/8/2010 5:35 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On 08/07/2010 14:25, Eli Foley wrote: MeeGo is pushing some radical new ideas about UI design that would be difficult to get pushed through an established project. I think MeeGo has every right to exist as its own project and there are plenty of

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-08 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Jul 8, 2010, at 17:46, David Greaves wrote: On 07/07/10 00:32, Dirk Hohndel wrote: Again, the default builds that we provide are optimized for Atom - I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's fairly straight forward to build for other platforms if you need that, but I think it

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-08 Thread Christian Daudt
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Jeremiah Foster jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com wrote: On Jul 8, 2010, at 17:46, David Greaves wrote: On 07/07/10 00:32, Dirk Hohndel wrote: Again, the default builds that we provide are optimized for Atom - I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-07 Thread Nicola Mfb
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Dirk Hohndel dirk.hohn...@intel.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:06:57 -0600, Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com wrote: [...] * parts of sdk not running on ati/nvidia boards is community driven? The SDK uses interfaces that not all open source drivers expose. No

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-07 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com wrote: Are you saying that any mobile vendor that provides the right kernel may ship meego full featured cellular/tablets without writing a single line of userland software and capable of running all the meego compliants

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-07 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday 7. July 2010 12.13.00 Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Jul 7, 2010, at 04:12, Dirk Hohndel wrote: Just as I wouldn't expect Nokia to work on adding support for HTC phones on the ARM side... Ah, but there is the rub. Any improvement Nokia makes to Linux on the ARM processor is going

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-07 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday 7. July 2010 14.22.56 Nicola Mfb wrote: Just for example and fun, there is an alpha totally free linux distribution (coded in the spare time by very few guys where I contribute) that runs on the OpenMoko freerunner since september 2009 and uses Qt (over X11) and above all ofono

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-07 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 06:22:56 -0600, Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Dirk Hohndel dirk.hohn...@intel.com wrote: On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:06:57 -0600, Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com wrote: [...] * parts of sdk not running on ati/nvidia boards is community

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-07 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On 7/7/2010 9:51 AM, Dirk Hohndel wrote: The MeeGo open source project needs to decide how to support different platforms. One of the contributors to the project, Intel, has decided to spend significant resources on supporting its own platforms as well as the overall project (and make no mistake

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-07 Thread David Lefty Schlesinger
On Jul 7, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On 7/7/2010 9:51 AM, Dirk Hohndel wrote: I find it very weird that we are somehow expected to promise and fund full support of competitors' platforms - when did that become the norm for being open? just to add to this on the funding

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-07 Thread Glen Gray
On 7 Jul 2010, at 17:59, Arjan van de Ven wrote: just to add to this on the funding side; each build architecture is probably in the $50k/year (and $100k initial) investment just in equipment and data center costs. Is there a guide on how to setup a meego OBS yet ? I've a very real need

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Robin Burchell
Hi Carsten, Thanks for your mail. Well timed, and an important message. One which gets the attention it deserves, I hope. On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org wrote: There is only one way to work this MeeGo project. Working in the open. Public RD. Will you pioneer it

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Randall Arnold
- Original message - From: Carsten Munk‎ cars...@maemo.org To: meego-dev‎ meego-dev@meego.com Subject: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:13:11 +0200 great oratory regretfully snipped . Openness aids collaboration and behind the doors

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Randall Arnold
- Original message - From: Robin Burchell‎ virot...@viroteck.net To: Development for the MeeGo Project (discussion list)‎ meego-dev@meego.com Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 20:53:09 +0100 Hi Carsten, Thanks for your mail

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Foster, Dawn M
On Jul 6, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Randall Arnold wrote: Here's where I'll beat my own dead horse: open project management. Not ad hoc, but supported by the right tool. There are some that plug into bugzilla and I provided recommendations to Quim and Dawn. Anyway, a web-based project manager

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Randall Arnold
- Original message - From: Foster, Dawn M‎ dawn.m.fos...@intel.com To: Development for the MeeGo Project (discussion list)‎ meego-dev@meego.com Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 13:13:43 -0700 � Randy, I think you

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Nicola Mfb
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org wrote: Hi Carsten! thanks to point all that periodically ;) [...] MeeGo software is developed and designed in a collaborative effort by an open community of professionals and volunteers The governance model is based on meritocracy

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Carsten Munk
Hi Nicola, Just answering parts of the questions related to this thread. I'd like to take the N900 questions and answer in a different thread but first in the morning. 2010/7/7 Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org wrote: Sorry if some

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 17:06:57 -0600, Nicola Mfb nicola@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 9:13 PM, Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org wrote: Hi Carsten! thanks to point all that periodically ;) [...] MeeGo software is developed and designed in a collaborative effort by an open

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Randall Arnold
- Original message - From: Dirk Hohndel‎ dirk.hohn...@intel.com To: Nicola Mfb‎ nicola@gmail.com, Development for the MeeGo Project (discussion list)‎ meego-dev@meego.com Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:32:54 -0700

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Foster, Dawn M
On Jul 6, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Randall Arnold wrote: - Original message - From: Dirk Hohndel‎ dirk.hohn...@intel.com To: Nicola Mfb‎ nicola@gmail.com, Development for the MeeGo Project (discussion list)‎ meego-dev@meego.com Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Randall Arnold
- Original message - From: Foster, Dawn M‎ dawn.m.fos...@intel.com To: Development for the MeeGo Project (discussion list)‎ meego-dev@meego.com Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 16:55:58 -0700 On Jul 6, 2010, at 4:48 PM

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Dirk Hohndel
handset day one - a plea for openness Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:32:54 -0700 * not official support of meego on some hardware is community driven? Again, the default builds that we provide are optimized for Atom - I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's fairly straight

Re: [MeeGo-dev] After handset day one - a plea for openness

2010-07-06 Thread Dirk Hohndel
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 18:05:42 -0600, Randall Arnold tex...@ovi.com wrote: Thanks Dawn, but maybe I didn't phrase my question well. I do understand the point of the first build being developed for a specific platform-- I was just unclear on the optimizations part. You are splitting hairs.