Carsten Munk <carsten.m...@gmail.com> writes: > The mission and goals of Mer is amongst others: > > Mer is an open, mobile-optimised, core distribution aimed at device > manufacturers; powered by Qt/QML and HTML5 - openly developed, > inclusive, and meritocratically governed. > > Provide a mobile device oriented architecture > Primary customers are device vendors - not end-users. > > Over time, the traditional mobile device focus has been done mostly as > part of the Nemo Middleware project, with Mer focusing on base system, > with a large overlap in contributor, vendor participation, use and > contributions, even infrastructure. > > The barrier between Mer and Nemo Middleware and what goes where has > often been confusing and let to big architectural challenges and > difficulty in contributing to Mer and especially Nemo MW based > projects, with differing methods, bugtrackers, requirements, etc - > despite the overlap of people, bugtrackers, even if they were on the > same infrastructure. > > In that sense, it makes sense that we try to remove the artifical gap > between Mer and Nemo Middleware to ensure a productized and working, > tested mobile core distribution. > > This is a RFC for Mer vendors, remaining advisory board members and > maintainers, with idea of implementation happening after 1st of May > 2014. > > We have already begun (a long time ago goal) to try and make Mer > contribution easier, through setting up GitLab and migrating the core > repositories from Gerrit to GitLab, hosted in Mer infrastructure, > authenticated with Mer bugtracker accounts. > > In addition to that, we have set up a OBS _service based Mer build in > https://build.merproject.org/project/monitor?project=mer-core%3Ai486%3Adevel > and https://build.merproject.org/project/monitor?project=mer-core%3Adevel > > This uses the tar_git web service with option 'dumb' to utilize old > Mer repository formats. > > Due to previous inability for Mer to accept contributions and release > sufficiently fast for Mer-based products, a method was devised to make > sure contribution could happen faster, by overlaying Mer with a > faster-moving set of packages, based on git repositories where actual > development happened. The lessons from that has been learnt and were > part of the reason for the GitLab move and _service based mentioned in > the previous three paragraphs. It led to bad situations before that > the factual bleeding edge Mer was not in Mer Gerrit, but in Mer GitHub > repositories. > > It is also worth noting that it is easy, and possible to only use a > subset of Mer source packages in vendor builds for specific purposes. > The original thought that Mer vendors would typically use full binary > releases of Mer has been disproven and most uses are using their own > Mer builds, done on own OBSes, and hence it makes more sense to see > Mer as a set of software components that can be combined in different > ways and built in a couple of different configurations for QA. > > The intended components to be updated and replacing current versions > in Mer (currently Qt 5.0 based): > > * Mobile-productized Qt5.1 packaging and modifications from Nemo's Qt fork: > > (Primary maintainer, Robin Burchell/w00t) > > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtdocgallery > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtwayland > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtdeclarative > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtsystems > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtbase > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtmultimedia > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtlocation > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtscenegraph-adaptation > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtwebkit5 > https://github.com/mer-packages/qttranslations > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtjsbackend > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtsvg > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtquick1 > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtsensors > https://github.com/mer-packages/qtxmlpatterns > [some may be missing] > > With updated 5.2 packages in a staging project while it gets > productized, https://github.com/mer-qt > > * Updated ConnMan 1.23 > > (Primary maintainer, Lorn Potter/lpotter/ljp) > > http://github.com/mer-packages/connman > https://github.com/mer-packages/crda.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/wireless-regdb.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/wpa_supplicant.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/mobile-broadband-provider-info.git (APN list) > https://github.com/nemomobile/libconnman-qt.git (new) > https://github.com/nemomobile/connectionagent.git (new needed for UI > enablement of ConnMan) > > * Updated PulseAudio 4.0 > > (Primary maintainer, Juho Hammilinen/jusa) > > http://github.com/mer-packages/pulseaudio > https://github.com/mer-packages/sbc.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/pulseaudio-modules-nemo.git (new) > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libcanberra.git (new) > > * 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) > > * Updated versions of Qt5 ports of Mer middleware such as KCalcore, > Resource framework enablers, Accounts framework, Sensor framework > > https://github.com/mer-packages/mkcal > https://github.com/mer-packages/kcalcore > https://github.com/mer-packages/libresource > https://github.com/mer-packages/libresourceqt > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/signon-plugin-oauth2.git (new) > > * BlueZ 4.101, > - includes patches to successfully pass Bluetooth certifications > > https://github.com/mer-packages/bluez > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/openobex.git (new) > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/bluez-hcidump.git (new) > https://github.com/nemomobile/libbluez-qt.git (new) > https://github.com/nemomobile/obex-capability.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/obexd.git > > (Primary maintainer: Hannu Mallat) > > Wayland related updates and fixes: > > https://github.com/mer-packages/llvm.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/mesa.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/wayland.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/libxkbcommon.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/xkeyboard-config.git > > * 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: > > https://github.com/mer-packages/boardname.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/build-compare.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/busybox.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/cairo.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/gdb.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/giflib.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/glib2.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/gst-plugins-bad-free.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/gst-plugins-base.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/libjpeg-turbo.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/libyaml.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/libzypp.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/openssh.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/pam.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/pango.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/pixman.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/repomd-pattern-builder.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/tzdata.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/upower.git > https://github.com/mer-packages/zlib.git > > The intended additional components to be merged into Mer: > > * Ruby (minimal) > -- needed for QtWebKit for Qt5 builds. > > (Primary maintainer: Islam Amer) > > * libsystrace (for doing easier tracing of Mer/Qt5-based systems) > > https://github.com/mer-packages/libsystrace > > (Primary maintainer: Robin Burchell/w00t) > > Location framework: GeoClue: > > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/geoclue.git > > (Primary maintainer: Aaron MacCarthy/amccarthy) > > Improvement for image creation and package updates: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/oneshot.git > > (Primary maintainer: Bernd Wachter/Aard) > > Replacement for unmaintained ContextKit, statefs > > https://github.com/nemomobile/cor.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/fuse.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/statefs-loader-qt.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/statefs-providers.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/statefs-qt.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/statefs.git > > (Primary maintainer: Denis Zalevski/dez) > > Utilizing a FUSE based file system for context information: > > Audio resource policy system independent bindings and completeness of > Resource Policy implementation before partially in Mer: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/libaudioresource-qt.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libaudioresource.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libdres-ohm.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/swi-prolog.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libprolog.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libtrace-ohm.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/ohm-plugins-misc.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/ohm-rule-engine.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/ohm.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/policy-settings-common.git > > (Primary maintainer: Juha Hammalinen/jusa) > > 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) > > 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 > > BTRFS related support: (like e2fsprogs) > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/btrfs-progs.git > > oFono with ability to connect with Android RILD stack and bindings: > > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/ofono (update) > https://github.com/nemomobile/libqofono.git (new) > https://github.com/nemomobile/tone-generator.git (new) > > Telepathy framework + oFono telepathy plugin: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/telepathy-accounts-signon.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/telepathy-farstream.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/telepathy-gabble.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/telepathy-glib.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/telepathy-mission-control.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/telepathy-qt.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/telepathy-rakia.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/telepathy-ring.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/farstream.git > > Device state management: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/libiphb.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/dsme.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libdsme.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/mce-dev.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/mce.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-keepalive.git > > Primary maintainer: Simi Piironen/spiironen > > Communication logging and contacts framework: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/commhistory-daemon.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/contactsd.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libcommhistory.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libcontacts.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/qtcontacts-sqlite.git > > SDL2 framework (not obligatory) > > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libsdl-gfx.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libsdl-image.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libsdl-mixer.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libsdl-net.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libsdl-sound.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libsdl-ttf.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libsdl.git > > (Primary maintainer: Thomas Perl) > > Application booster - a method to start up Qt (and others) > applications much faster: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/mapplauncherd-qt.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/mapplauncherd.git > > (Primary Maintainer: John Brooks) > > Maliit Input Framework: > > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/maliit-framework.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/maliit-plugins.git > > (Primary Maintainer: Pekka Vuorela) > > Time daemon (also for synchronization, alarms, timezone changes): > > https://github.com/nemomobile/timed.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/tzdata-timed.git > > (Primary Maintainer: Petri M. Gerdt) > > QML Bindings for common middleware tasks: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/mlite.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-accounts.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-configuration.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-connectivity.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-contacts.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-contextkit.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-dbus.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-messages.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-notifications.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-policy.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-signon.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-social.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-systemsettings.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-thumbnailer.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qml-plugin-time.git > > Non-graphical feedback (vibrations, sound, etc) framework: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/fftune.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/ngfd.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/qt-mobility-haptics-ffmemless.git [for > Qt5Feedback] > https://github.com/nemomobile/libngf-qt.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libngf.git > > Seamless Software Updates: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/ssu.git > - a way to authenticate access to repositories, easier do upgrades > between updates, etc. > > Primary maintainer: Bernd Wachter/Aard > > Python3 + TheOtherSide bindings for Qt5: > > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/python3.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/pyotherside.git > > 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] > > Qt-based script framework and backup framework: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/cutes-js.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/cutes.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/the-vault.git > > Primary maintainer: Denis Zalevski (dez) > > Wayland compositor framework/lipstick: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/lipstick.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/eventfeed.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libcontentaction.git > > Primary maintainer: Robin Burchell (w00t) > > Transfer management engine: > https://github.com/nemomobile/transfer-engine.git > > Media playback and playlist management framework: > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/grilo-plugins.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/grilo.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/taglib.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/totem-pl-parser.git > > Social media framework: > https://github.com/nemomobile/libsailfishkeyprovider.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libsocialcache.git > > User management framework: > https://github.com/nemomobile/password-manager > https://github.com/nemomobile/libshadowutils.git > > Framework for building telephony dialers with telepathy(-ring) and oFono: > > https://github.com/nemomobile/voicecall.git > > Gecko-based browser engine with Qt5 bindings: > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/embedlite-components.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/gecko-dev.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/yasm.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/qtmozembed.git > > USB mode management framework: > https://github.com/nemomobile/usb-moded.git > > Primary maintainer: Phillipe De Swert > > 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. > > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/aspell-en.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/aspell.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/calligra-extra-cmake-modules.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/enchant.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/exempi.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/fbset.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/fingerterm.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/glib-networking.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/gmime.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/gnome-common.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/gst-plugins-good.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/hunspell.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/iotop.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libcreds3.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/eigen2.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libenca.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libgdata.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libgee.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libgsf.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libiodata.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libmlocale.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libnice.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libopenal.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/libprofile-qt.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/quillmetadata.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libquvi-scripts.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libquvi.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/librest.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libsmack.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libsoup.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/lsof.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/mapplauncherd-booster-qtcomponents.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/mascara.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-configs-n950-n9.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-control-panel-applets.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-qtmultimedia-plugins.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/nemo-theme-default.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/poppler.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/profiled.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/protobuf.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/python-openssl.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/python-imaging.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/python-twisted.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/python-zope-interface.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/qmsystem.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/qt-components.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/libquazip.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/quillimagefilters.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/recode.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/screen.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/sd-utils.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/smpeg.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/sound-theme-freedesktop.git
> https://github.com/nemomobile/tut.git This package provides very small and lightweight C++ unit testing framework, it depends only on standard library and is header-based, so it is the build-time only dependency. It is used e.g. by cor (^). I am ready to maintain it. - denis (dez/deztructor) > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/uthash.git > https://github.com/nemomobile-packages/vala.git > https://github.com/nemomobile/vmtouch.git > > 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. > 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
