You need to take into account that this is just a milestone release, a snapshot of the current progress of the ASU development. It is *NOT* a final release in any way, shape or form. If you read the announcement by William Lai he lists:
"- A stable and working phone stack realized by using Qtopia. - A new and flexible window manager [Illume] that broadens our support for the different graphic libraries, including GTK+ and more. - The whole system software has been reworked which leads to a very fast and reliable suspend & resume, LED control and power management. - A graphical frontend [Installer] for package management as installing, removing or updating applications via repositories. - Also included is an application which combines GPS and SMS [Locations] for easy sharing of locations among friends." I would say it does meet all of those points. What is it not, is a final phone distribution that is completely finished. This is only the first of many milestones before any type of final release. -Jacob On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Bumbl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As it seems they have the contrary. > They have a leader which seems to dictate everything without > accepting ideas from the developers or the community. > > Dimitri wrote: > > It's hard to argue with your points, since the phone STILL can't connect > to > > the internet *out-of-the-box*. > > > > (Who wants to manually hack a dozen files, or install some guy's > > half-working gui posted on some blog that requires google-translate to > > read?) > > > > Why the developers are spending time breaking things that were previously > > worked (see ASU keyboard), rather than fixing what's broken and in > desperate > > need of fixing, is beyond me. > > > > Is it a lack of leadership? For this aggressive undertaking to be > > successful, it needs at least one person to prioritize, delegate, and > lead > > the other developers. > > > > Is there such a person at Openmoko? If not, that's the problem. Having a > > team of developers, without clear leadership, is akin to herding cats :) > > > > D > > > > > > ted braak wrote: > > > >> I have real doubts about the some Quality Assurance aspects of this > team. > >> Also I don't see real dedication and vision to get rid of bugs and > produce > >> something stable and usable. It looks like there is more effort in > >> bringing us bling. > >> I think bling is something that can be created by the community itself. > >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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