2014-04-13 14:14 GMT+02:00 Marko Saukko <marko.sau...@gmail.com>:
> On 04/13/2014 01:55 PM, Carsten Munk wrote:
> ...
>
>> * Updated Systemd to 208
>>
>> (Primary maintainer, Pekka Lundstroem)
>>
>> http://github.com/mer-packages/systemd
>> https://github.com/mer-packages/kmod.git
>> https://github.com/nemomobile/systemd-user-session-targets.git (new)
>
>
> Should be noted that this will drop support for hw adaptations that have
> kernel older than 3.0 by default. There might be way to backport some
> patches to the respective hw adaptation kernels to maintain those
> adaptations.
>
>
>> * Project config enablers to make X11-less builds in Mer, which will
>> be default off (i.e. X11 enabled) in Mer QA builds and general package
>> updates/build system adjustments:
>>
>
> Will this mean that libX* packages and dependencies will be dropped from mer
> core?
Inverse, what I meant was that we add enablers for doing X11-less
builds, but we don't drop X11 in default Mer builds.

>
>> https://github.com/mer-packages/boardname.git
>
>
> boardname should be dropped in favor of ssu and oneshot. There is already
> ongoing work to do this but not sure if it was finalized properly yet.
>
> ...
>
>>
>> Package Management daemon and bindings:
>>
>> https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/PackageKit-Qt.git
>> https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/PackageKit.git
>> https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/polkit-qt-1.git
>>
>> (Primary maintainer: Thomas Perl)
>
>
> Will we continue supporting zypper in the future?
Yes, zypper is a frontend to libzypp in practice.

>
>
>>
>> Synchronization framework: (not obligatory)
>>
>> https://github.com/nemomobile/buteo-mtp.git
>> https://github.com/nemomobile/buteo-sync-plugins-google-simple.git
>> https://github.com/nemomobile/buteo-sync-plugins-google.git
>> https://github.com/nemomobile/buteo-sync-plugins.git
>> https://github.com/nemomobile/buteo-syncfw.git
>> https://github.com/nemomobile/buteo-syncml.git
>
>
> I would say we should get these in as synchronization is one of the main
> features in any mobile device.
>
> ...
>
>> Primary maintainer: Thomas Perl (thp)
>>
>> Media indexing framework (optional):
>> https://github.com/nemomobile/libqtsparql.git
>> https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/tracker.git
>> https://github.com/nemomobile/tumbler.git
>> [and likely a boatload of the dependencies below]
>
>
> I think most of the deps are already listed after the rest of the things
> would be merged. I would propose that we evaluate this after everything else
> is merged to see how much it actually takes as maintenance load. In the end
> I don't think it is much if we just limit it to media indexing.
>
> ...
>
>> Additional packages for discussion if they're alive or not and if
>> other packages above depend on them and if they are not more part of
>> UI.
>
>
> From this list I would mainly pick the ones that are dependencies for
> everything else. Couple of comments though:
>
> ...
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/nemomobile/profiled.git
>
>
> Maybe this should be taken as part of mer?
I'm unsure if it's even used at all. But I'd like to be proven wrong.

>
> ...
>>
>> https://github.com/nemomobile/sd-utils.git
>
>
> We are missing sd card and mass storage handling in general from Mer.
>
> ...
>
>>
>> If you claim meritocratic maintainership to any of these packages,
>> please let me know and we'll set up access rights for merging and
>> review rights accordingily after 1st of May 2014 if proposal holds.
>
>
> I can take some maintainership of some of the generic packages that I've
> done general updates in the past as well. But lets see what is left, we
> should probably collect wiki page about all the packages with primary
> maintainer listed.
>
>
>> Protesting to the architectural and location move of your component is
>> perfectly valid to do, as well.
>>
>> I believe from an architectural and project point of view that this
>> move will strengthen Mer and related Nemo middleware components as a
>> open source mobile platform in it's own right and make contribution
>> and participation easier to understand, explain and do.
>>
>> With best regards,
>> Carsten Munk
>> Mer project architect
>>
>
> Very nicely put. Thank you for the effort.
>
> Best Regards,
> Marko "Sage" Saukko
> One of the Mer maintainers that just stopped having enough free time :/
>
>
>


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