hi, On Fr, 2008-09-26 at 15:37 +0200, Steve Paine wrote: > > I was proposing that I send an SC3 to Oliver (mainly as I know him and > he's not far from me in Germany) to help out with the SCH/Poulsbo > testing, not buying up the contents of Dynamism and shipping it to > him ;-) i'd love to get one, but please be aware that i moved to kassel 2 years ago so its not like driving 50km and dropping it off at my door anymore (unless you like to drive 300km more indeed :) )
> How many people on the Ubuntu Mobile (distro) team right now though? I
> get the impression that its, er, not many more than Oliver?
even though i built the first image on my own and am mainly responsible
for it, it is still a team effort. i wouldnt be anywhere if emmet
wouldnt care for the installer bits, without steven's work on the build
system (who additionally has a similar position as i do in -mobile wrt
ubuntu-mid), loic as our special force and team lead who puts out the
worst fires or david who does an awesome job as manager to keep all our
backs free (not to talk about the distro and desktop teams from where i
get the apps and who are listening to my change requests ... or even the
launchpad team that makes sure our infrastructure is always reliable).
in ubuntu we usually have one responsible person for a project but most
stuff builds on work of other team members so even though i'm the
responsible guy i'm not the owner of ubuntu-mobile ... its only a
skeleton without a community fleshing it out, without users who give
feedback, file bugs and help with QA ...
so in the end its up to you guys to make it fly :) i will listen to your
requests and complaints and act accordingly since its not my image but
yours ;) team size isnt defined by headcount inside a company in the
opensource world but by the amount of feedback and participation you get
from the community and its great to see that so many people like it and
that i got so much response already ...
please keep in mind that things like poulsbo and other hardware support
are often dependant on the manufacturer and driver developer, i will
happily test and push for fixes upstream (and indeed send patches where
i can) but nobody in our team can guarantee that it will be fixed in
time for 8.10 (especially Xorg was just undergoing a massive transition
which makes many drivers fall behind, i.e. see my work on the evtouch
touchscreen driver where i'll be happy to have at least the mainstream
stuff supported in 8.04), it might take until 9.04 ... (though having
the HW around surely helps speeding it up)
ciao
oli
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