Dear Wolfgang and Mareck : Feel free to put the link here : http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Weekly_Engineering_News
Wolfgang Spraul ??: > OK great. I didn't know about this beforehand, but appreciate the > help. Thanks Marek! > Marek and I will take turns, or find some other way to publish some > sort of 'weekly engineering news' each week, ideally on the weekend. > Hope it's helpful, Best Regards, > Wolfgang > > On Sep 20, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Marek Lindner wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> as Wolfgang is out of town I jump in and try to summarize what >> happened last >> week. Hope you don't mind. ;-) >> >> Bug fixing, bug fixing, bug fixing: >> Last week our PM plus his Q&A team pushed even harder to get things >> fixed. >> 2008.9 was on the way and needed some more love here and there. >> Finally, it >> was released yesterday night (Taipeh time). The last days/hours were >> spent >> collecting all bits and bytes of information to properly document the >> changes / improvements / known issues. Everything was made public on >> our >> wiki. That is the kind of work nobody wants to do but everybody >> wants to >> have. :-) >> >> Decentralizing the package maintenance: >> We noticed more and more hints / patches come in from the community. >> Sometimes >> we don't respond within a short time frame - we know that. >> Developing a phone >> is a huge task. We simply are too few people to handle all this >> input. Be >> patient with us. To improve the situation we were disucssing a more >> decentralized package maintenance approach. Openmoko would give >> write access >> to its own OE tree to community people which maintain packages / >> bumb up >> revisions / include patches. Openmoko would centrally build & >> distribute it. >> That way Openmoko would give away some of its control but would gain >> speed in >> the development process. You would be able to bring in new packages >> and >> extend the platform as you wish. One day if your package does not >> build the >> build system goes on with the next package. Our admin team is trying >> to find >> a way to protect us from vandalism (see: >> https://admin-trac.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1554) and we have to >> think about >> how that could look like in detail. What do you think ? >> >> Hiring, hiring, hiring: >> Also, we are looking at many candidates to hire experienced >> engineers / people >> in nearly all fields. We spoke to several mechanical and layout >> engineers, IT >> and Q&A people, software developers. We have many open positions but >> its not >> easy to find the right mix of attitude, cultural background and >> expertise >> towards Open Source. We keep on searching and let you know once new >> people >> join us. >> >> >> Marek >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
