Jay Vaughan wrote: >> 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. >> >> > > Yeah I concur with this here, its definitely been a matter of > patience, watching things go backwards before they apparently .. any > day now .. go forwards. > > >> 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. >> > > Its a bit hippy-dippy, if you want to know my opinion (you probably > don't), and by that I mean that the punch-bowl is running linux. > > >> 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 :) >> > > > I think the best we can hope for is that from the 2008.8 release > onwards, we'll now start to see the massive progress we've always been > promised as a result of community contributions. I suppose its fair > to say that the majority of the platform-specific 'hard work' has been/ > is being done by the core OM team, and now its up to us to start > contributing. > > That said, I have not been able to succesfully complete a 'make > openmoko-developer-image' for a week, and its been terribly > frustrating watching all the bloat of OM go by, with little final > 'caught up with the main developers' resuts. I'm going to give it > another go, though, so stay tuned .. > > ; > -- > Jay Vaughan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > The only thing I want to see improved is the documentation..... ther is no info on ASU at all.... even hackers/tinkers are spending much more time than they have to, to customize the images/system..... lets face it in many ways software is only useful with documentation and this has none.
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