Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-14 Thread Roland Mas
arne anka, 2008-08-14 14:24:58 +0200 : >> I'm more likely to provide *.deb, actually, but that's just because >> I'm an arrogant, smug, elitist Debian bastard (and not ashamed of it, >> either). > > yeah! that's the spirit! > you don't have by chance a blog or so where you jot down your experien

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-14 Thread arne anka
> I'm more likely to provide *.deb, actually, but that's just because > I'm an arrogant, smug, elitist Debian bastard (and not ashamed of it, > either). yeah! that's the spirit! you don't have by chance a blog or so where you jot down your experiences with debian on fr? i think, i am going to

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-14 Thread Roland Mas
Jay Vaughan, 2008-08-13 22:47:28 +0200 : >> Oh come on. After reading all your (and others') scary messages >> about that, I decided to give it a try. So I pointed my browser to >> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MokoMakefile. Half an hour later, I >> had a build in progress. Most of that half-

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-14 Thread arne anka
> Half an hour. 15 commands to copy and paste. How much more > hand-holding does a developer need? that's only part of the story! the stuff mokomakefile gets you is already prepared to be build with bitbake&cie -- which does not mean that everything builds at all (frinst vlc fails complete

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-13 Thread Rod Whitby
Feydreva wrote: > Does Mokomakefile can build a 2008.8 more recent than the one release on > August 08 of 2008 ? > I setup the Makefile for > OM_GIT_BRANCH := org.openmoko.asu.testing > and run > make openmoko-qtopia-x11-image > Will I have the "fake" asu, like the one on the daily buildhost ? or

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-13 Thread Feydreva
Does Mokomakefile can build a 2008.8 more recent than the one release on August 08 of 2008 ? I setup the Makefile for OM_GIT_BRANCH := org.openmoko.asu.testing and run make openmoko-qtopia-x11-image Will I have the "fake" asu, like the one on the daily buildhost ? or will I have a 2008.8/ASU ? if

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-13 Thread Jay Vaughan
> Oh come on. After reading all your (and others') scary messages > about that, I decided to give it a try. So I pointed my browser to > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MokoMakefile. Half an hour later, I had > a build in progress. Most of that half-hour was spent waiting for > stuff to download

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-13 Thread Steven **
The MokoMakefile is great. I've had it working for months. But I still don't know how I would contribute to OM. There's a wiki page about using the MokoMakefile to edit the existing packages. But I don't think that addresses actually contributing said changes back to OM. Maybe I'm just missing

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-13 Thread Roland Mas
Jay Vaughan, 2008-08-13 14:42:23 +0200 : >> Idea of Open Source projects is to release them before they're >> ready, to let community work on them as well. > > That would be fine in our case, *if* we could work on them > concurrently, but there is so much cruft in dealing with the build > environm

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-13 Thread Jay Vaughan
>> >> Please issue it when it's READY and not on 2008.9.9 at 09:09:09 >> just for the fun >> of it. > > Idea of Open Source projects is to release them before they're ready, > to let community work on them as well. That would be fine in our case, *if* we could work on them concurrently, but th

Re: 2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-13 Thread Pawel Kowalak
On Aug 13, 2008, at 7:51 AM, Olivier Berger wrote: > "steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Then try 2008.9 when it comes >> > > Please issue it when it's READY and not on 2008.9.9 at 09:09:09 > just for the fun > of it. Idea of Open Source projects is to release them before they're ready,

2008.9 - Was Re: Third request: what *is* the warranty on the Freerunner?

2008-08-12 Thread Olivier Berger
"steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then try 2008.9 when it comes > First time I happen to meet an announcement for the next release, it seems. Please issue it when it's READY and not on 2008.9.9 at 09:09:09 just for the fun of it. Jut my 2 cents. -- Olivier BERGER (OpenPGP: 1024D/B4C5F37F