Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-11 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, On 10/04/2011 03:08 PM, ext Tom Swindell wrote: OBS is built with packaging in mind, so it builds packages locally and on servers in a sanitized environment. Scratchbox may be polluted by whatever packages a developer has installed and makes dependency tracking a bit harder IMO. OBS and

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-11 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, On 10/04/2011 12:06 PM, ext Jon Nordby wrote: Yes, one would want Scratchbox or similar in addition to what OBS provides. However, there is nothing that prevents Scratchbox from being used together with RPM and an RPM based distro is there? You need some support for RPM tools in SB and

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-06 Thread d4lamar
Hi to all, I'm only a lurker of Meego mailing lists and I have never contributed to the project, but this time I would like to write some words about. * That primary customers of the platform are device vendors - not end-users. I think that this point in Mer Project or in any other branch/fork

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-06 Thread Carsten Munk
2011/10/6 d4lamar d4la...@gmail.com: * That primary customers of the platform are device vendors - not end-users. I think that this point in Mer Project or in any other branch/fork of Meego is to be corrected. Vendors come and vendors go, they don't care about Community as long as they can

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-06 Thread Graham Cobb
On Thursday 06 October 2011 07:33:24 Carsten Munk wrote: We have chosen to move out the hardware adaptations and UX'es out of the core, into the community surrounding it, to get rid of a lot of politics - to concentrate on what's technically good and benefits us all - not having to maintain

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-06 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Graham Cobb g+me...@cobb.uk.net wrote: My personal view (which is partly based on my marketing job) is that you have to start off focused on a very visible end user experience in order to get the project the necessary publicity.  For your own governance reasons

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-05 Thread Samuel Stirtzel
Hi, sorry for re-sending this Jeremiah, but I've missed that this mail was not sent to the list, my bad. 2011/10/4 Jeremiah Foster jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com: ... Can a mobile segment distro like MeeGo be really compared with a desktop segment distro like e.g. embedded Ubuntu? (This is

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-05 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Stefan Werden stefan.wer...@open-slx.dewrote: Jeremiah Foster jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com hat am 4. Oktober 2011 um 20:42 geschrieben: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Stefan Werden stefan.wer...@open-slx.dewrote: Hi, switching to debian would

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-05 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Samuel Stirtzel s.stirt...@googlemail.com wrote: 2011/10/4 Jeremiah Foster jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com: Can a mobile segment distro like MeeGo be really compared with a desktop segment distro like e.g. embedded Ubuntu? (This is not relative to your

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-05 Thread Si Howard
Again, I agree with the project, if Mer can resurrect Maemo/MeeGo then I am all for it! On 04/10/2011 08:57, Timo Jyrinki wrote: ma, 2011-10-03 kello 19:09 +0100, Si Howard kirjoitti: I'm for that! Wasn't the Mer project part of the Maemo 5.0 porting to the Nokia N8X0 platform? That's one

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-05 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2011/10/5 Jeremiah Foster jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com: Distrowatch are server and dektop disties. The special thing in MeeGo was that the focus was on emerging devices. And how exactly did it do that? By using Connman? By using an embedded Linux kernel? Btrfs? By being small? What exactly

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread harri.hakulinen
Carsten, David and Robin, Thank you very much for this proposal and work already done and started. This single post alone convinces me that we have not wasted any work on MeeGo (ce), and that it in fact will have bright future ahead, no matter of the name of the project , the products based on

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Timo Jyrinki
ma, 2011-10-03 kello 19:09 +0100, Si Howard kirjoitti: I'm for that! Wasn't the Mer project part of the Maemo 5.0 porting to the Nokia N8X0 platform? That's one way of putting it, but it was indeed about reconstructing Maemo so that it worked as a whole distribution. That then made possible to

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread karoliina.t.salmi...@gmail.com
Hello, I think one of the things with the MeeGo was that it was a downgrade in development environment, CI systems and everything from our Maemo. All that has been made for debian based distro and the change to the rpm does not make slightest sense. The debian based distro and everything that

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Sivan Greenberg
I just think it would have been better if we (The Nokia linux organization and the fans) did not have to go through the MeeGo hurdle, and as you say in detail, look at harmattan and how slick and beautiful is as a product. (I use it in N950 as my everyday phone and no *other* OS/ device even comes

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Robin Burchell
Hi Karoliina, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:53 AM, karoliina.t.salmi...@gmail.com karoliina.t.salmi...@gmail.com wrote: Killing scratchbox without a replacement (OBS is not a replacement!) is not very good choice. MeeGo was theoretically usable in qemu, unfortunately, I don't think a lot of

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Jon Nordby
On 10/04/11 11:07, Sivan Greenberg wrote: I just think it would have been better if we (The Nokia linux organization and the fans) did not have to go through the MeeGo hurdle, and as you say in detail, look at harmattan and how slick and beautiful is as a product. (I use it in N950 as my

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Robin Burchell
Hi Sivan ( others), On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Sivan Greenberg si...@omniqueue.com wrote: Again, why don't we forget reinventing the infrastructure in the price of using debs (which is a known a loved format for embedded computing everywhere, and since RPM and DEBs are just a way of

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Sivan Greenberg
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Robin Burchell robin+me...@viroteck.net wrote: OBS is a very useful tool, just not for the purposes you were apparently forced to use it for. I've used it for the commit, push package, wait for build failure type development cycle as well, and I agree, it's

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Carsten Munk
2011/10/4 Sivan Greenberg si...@omniqueue.com: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Robin Burchell robin+me...@viroteck.net wrote: OBS is a very useful tool, just not for the purposes you were apparently forced to use it for. I've used it for the commit, push package, wait for build failure type

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Sivan Greenberg
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Robin Burchell robin+me...@viroteck.net wrote: it can be looked at. We've chosen the approach of minimal change because it means we have a working system with less effort. I realize this, does this mean that once we find someone to sponsor the servers we just

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Tuomas Kulve
On 10/04/2011 12:06 PM, Jon Nordby wrote: Don't go around trying to changing everything if what you're missing is just Scratchbox. I also liked the Scratchbox, despite the problems. For MeeGo stuff I use this (ARM chroot created from the osc local build):

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Sivan Greenberg
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org wrote: Long story short: buildd and launchpad is very useful but only when you're doing Debian and Debian only. OBS is different in many different ways and allows a proper productization environment as well as growing an

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Sivan Greenberg si...@omniqueue.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org wrote: Long story short: buildd and launchpad is very useful but only when you're doing Debian and Debian only. Except it was built by Canonical for

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:53 AM, karoliina.t.salmi...@gmail.com karoliina.t.salmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This is just my 0.02 cents. I would think it should be done like this: - Take the debian based distro and development environment (that works) as a basis. It works. Look at

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Sivan Greenberg
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Jeremiah Foster jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Sivan Greenberg si...@omniqueue.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org wrote: Long story short: buildd and launchpad is very useful but

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Tom Swindell
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 13:58 +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Sivan Greenberg si...@omniqueue.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org wrote: Long story short: buildd and launchpad is very useful but

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Tom Swindell t.swind...@rubyx.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 13:58 +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Sivan Greenberg si...@omniqueue.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Carsten Munk
2011/10/4 karoliina.t.salmi...@gmail.com karoliina.t.salmi...@gmail.com: Hello, I think one of the things with the MeeGo was that it was a downgrade in development environment, CI systems and everything from our Maemo. So, for good measure - those CI systems were never open source or published

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Tom Swindell
Other reasons for keeping OBS include trying to change as little as possible from what MeeGo has done. So those vendors that are possibly already accustomed and are currently using MeeGo facilities, like OBS. Can easily migrate to Mer. There really isn't much point in debating this, Carsten has

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Mika Laitio
OBS is a very useful tool, just not for the purposes you were apparently forced to use it for. I've used it for the commit, push package, wait for build failure type development cycle as well, and I agree, it's far from optimal - but for easily making heavily There are couple of ways to speed

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Sivan Greenberg
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Jeremiah Foster jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com wrote: I think what Carsten means by growing an organisation organically is that OBS allows multiple users to create their own repositories, it allows us to separate different projects into different repositories

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Samuel Stirtzel
Hi, maybe I'm wrong but the Scratchbox mailing lists looks pretty dead right now (see [1]). Is there any community alive behind it, or should the new MeeGo project reanimate Scratchbox if it would be used? 2011/10/4 Jeremiah Foster jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com: OBS is built with packaging in

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Arnaud Delcasse
2011/10/4 Samuel Stirtzel s.stirt...@googlemail.com: Before it was just big companies that could create their own Linux distros (before that everyone had their bespoke UNIX distro) nowadays fragmentation is brought to you by every Tom, Dick and Harry with an OBS login. I've been down the

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Samuel Stirtzel s.stirt...@googlemail.comwrote: [snip] 2011/10/4 Jeremiah Foster jeremiah.fos...@pelagicore.com: OBS is built with packaging in mind, so it builds packages locally and on servers in a sanitized environment. Scratchbox may be polluted by

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-04 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Stefan Werden stefan.wer...@open-slx.dewrote: Hi, switching to debian would mean making a complete new projekt. Nope, it would merely mean adding software to the Debian project, it wouldn't require a new project at all. Debian would host the infrastructure (it

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-03 Thread Timo Härkönen
2011/10/3 Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org Hi all, Our solution is the Mer Project: Excellent! count me in. A few questions about the project's communication channels? Do we use these MeeGo mailing list, the meego-* IRC channels or are we moving somewhere? (IMO moving to mer-specific channels

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-03 Thread Carsten Munk
2011/10/3 Timo Härkönen timop.harko...@gmail.com: 2011/10/3 Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org Hi all, Our solution is the Mer Project: Excellent! count me in. A few questions about the project's communication channels? Do we use these MeeGo mailing list, the meego-* IRC channels or are

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-03 Thread martin brook
Carsten Hi, Your aims are why I was draw to MeeGo in the first place and its good to see you aiming even higher. 'We will continue to welcome contribution and participation from the hacker community - in fact we aim to make it so easy to port to a new vendor device that a single hacker could do

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-03 Thread Randall Arnold
From: Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org To: meego-dev meego-dev@meego.com; meego-comm...@meego.com Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 1:01 AM Subject: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo Hi all, MeeGo is dead ... long live Tizen

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas.Rucker
Hi, -Original Message- From: Randall Arnold From: Carsten Munk cars...@maemo.org To: meego-dev meego-dev@meego.com; meego-comm...@meego.com Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 1:01 AM Subject: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo Hi all, MeeGo is dead

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-03 Thread ext-iekku.pylkka
Hi, Sounds great! Count me in. -- Iekku -Original Message- From: meego-dev-boun...@meego.com [mailto:meego-dev- boun...@meego.com] On Behalf Of ext Carsten Munk Sent: 03 October, 2011 09:01 To: meego-dev; meego-comm...@meego.com Subject: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-03 Thread Alberto Mardegan
Il 10/03/2011 09:01 AM, Carsten Munk ha scritto: The goal is to find a truly sustainable way for MeeGo and other interested communities to work with Tizen. Our solution is the Mer Project: [...] That's fantastic! I can't make any promises, as free time is an obsolete concept for me, but I'll

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-03 Thread nic...@nicoladefilippo.it
Hi, +1 Nicola Da: meego-dev-boun...@meego.com A: meego-dev meego-dev@meego.com, meego-comm...@meego.com Cc: Data: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:01:17 +0200 Oggetto: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo Hi all, MeeGo is dead ... long live Tizen !! -

Re: [MeeGo-dev] MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo

2011-10-03 Thread Si Howard
I'm for that! Wasn't the Mer project part of the Maemo 5.0 porting to the Nokia N8X0 platform? On 03/10/2011 07:01, Carsten Munk wrote: Hi all, MeeGo is dead ... long live Tizen !! - Haven't we heard that before? - Maemo, Moblin? We need a community that transcends the mere branding of