Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-25 Thread Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes
Thanks for the reply Steve, and sorry that I am being a bit confrontational!

Of course I do not expect you to do your dirty laundry in public (but it
was those lunchtime magnum bottles of champagne on the expense account,
wans't it?), but since Andy did make a lot of good and very visible
changes, a quick We are sorry to see him go, wish him all luck in his
future endeavours and Werner will take over kernel patch management
message would have been nice!

Thanks,

(also for the in buzz fix thread reply - cleared it up for me!)

- Gunnar


Steve Mosher wrote:
 Thanks Gunnar,
 
There is one thing we tend to be very tight lipped about.  HR issues.
 That is its very rare that you will find any employee commenting on why
 a particular individual is not with the company anymore. Some people are 
 let go for performance. Some are let go due to cost cutting. Some choose
 voluntary separation. Some request to be let go. This is highly personel
 data, so we try to avoid at all costs talking about these issues.
 
 As to the other issues, there are some cases were the situation is so 
 fluid and still in process that commenting really isnt possible. I'll 
 relook at the official buzz fix thread and see if I can add anything 
 helpful.
 
 
 Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes wrote:
 I love these threads where we talk about company things, like the recent
  official buzz fix thread, or the secret UI design team IRC
 conversation, and there is NEVER any response from OpenMoko.

 I wonder if they see the community mailinglist as COMMUNITY ONLY, i.e.
 no employees allowed? :)

 Cheers,

 - Gunnar

 Laszlo KREKACS wrote:
 Dear List,


 I can't express how sad I'm when I read Andy Green left Openmoko.

 I do not know why he left (and it is not my business anyway), but
 I know since Andy was at Openmoko the kernel side began
 to form shape, and got things work. (suspend? anyone?)

 I know that every people is replacable at a company, but show
 me at least two people who made as much commit/day (and code quality)
 what Andy did.
 You cant, because there is no black magic here, no marketing
 mantra, it is all public and we can see who commits what into the git tree.

 So you just let go the single most valuable people at kernel side.
 Nice try.

 I do not know who is responsible for this desicion but I hope they are
 not the same design team who had fired Rasterman.
 Oh, and Harald Welte had left Openmoko too, but we never knew the exact 
 details.

 Who left?
 At the hardware side: Werner and Joerg
 at the software side: Mirko and hmm, nobody?

 Im counting... How long will they stand?

 If I had enough money I would just hire those people and form a new company 
 and
 outsource the fabrication to a chinese company
 (that's exactly what everyone does including apple) and forget about 
 Openmoko
 (the name was a bad choice anyway ;)

 I know this letter a bit harsh, but it is intented to address to whom
 is concerned:
 Get your head out of your @ss, sit down and think about a bit.
 You must honor those people who gets the job done!

 The best would be just hire back those valueable people, and work out how
 they want to work. Even if they want to form a new (software) company, to
 make sure this situation will never happen again.

 I always wanted to buy the next model of openmoko, but I know exactly,
 if it has
 bugs (and surely it will), never or really slowly will be fixed
 (as the current(=everyone gets fired) situation shows).

 And if it will have hardware bugs, they will be never fixed by
 Openmoko (as the company),
 and I can just hope that some people offer *their free time and
 knowledge* and fix
 the problem UNOFFICIALLY (unless they did not get until fired).

 Can you imagine where we were today without Andy and Rasterman?
 I surely can: an unofficial/unsupported qtextended with an unoptimized
 2.6.22 kernel.

 All those nice things came from these (fired) people.

 I'm afraid of the future.

 Best regards,
  Laszlo

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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-25 Thread arne anka
There is one thing we tend to be very tight lipped about.  HR issues.

nobody expects to hear internals, but visible information about staff  
changes, at least when it affects people being some kind of om's face to  
community, would help.

 As to the other issues, there are some cases were the situation is so
 fluid and still in process that commenting really isnt possible. I'll
 relook at the official buzz fix thread and see if I can add anything
 helpful.

of course it is problematic. but communication is an important part of  
community building and community relations.

we got those montly community updates, a section like from om, the  
company, noticing about ongoing issues would be highly apprecaited, i  
think.
there, in short, could be mentioned that important, community visible  
members of staff are leaving or hired or what you wrote regarding the  
buzz: tests going on, procedure has been etablished, bids are requested,  
pondering ways of fixing in field ...
so we could rest assured that those things are not forgotten but being  
worked on (and maybe the wired headset buzzing would have come up again  
earlier).

the heated debates when rasterman left or about the way to handle th buzz  
fix could maybe have been a lot cooler with a constant flow (or trickle)  
of information, even if it says we hear you, but we're not quite sure  
yet, how to procede.

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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Mosher
  Gunnar,

I didnt consider your post the least bit confrontational. You should 
see some of the mails I send to folks. I like your suggestion about
some sort of farewell announcement.

Gunnar AAstrand Grimnes wrote:
 Thanks for the reply Steve, and sorry that I am being a bit confrontational!
 
 Of course I do not expect you to do your dirty laundry in public (but it
 was those lunchtime magnum bottles of champagne on the expense account,
 wans't it?), but since Andy did make a lot of good and very visible
 changes, a quick We are sorry to see him go, wish him all luck in his
 future endeavours and Werner will take over kernel patch management
 message would have been nice!
 
 Thanks,
 
 (also for the in buzz fix thread reply - cleared it up for me!)
 
 - Gunnar
 
 
 Steve Mosher wrote:
 Thanks Gunnar,

There is one thing we tend to be very tight lipped about.  HR issues.
 That is its very rare that you will find any employee commenting on why
 a particular individual is not with the company anymore. Some people are 
 let go for performance. Some are let go due to cost cutting. Some choose
 voluntary separation. Some request to be let go. This is highly personel
 data, so we try to avoid at all costs talking about these issues.

 As to the other issues, there are some cases were the situation is so 
 fluid and still in process that commenting really isnt possible. I'll 
 relook at the official buzz fix thread and see if I can add anything 
 helpful.


 Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes wrote:
 I love these threads where we talk about company things, like the recent
  official buzz fix thread, or the secret UI design team IRC
 conversation, and there is NEVER any response from OpenMoko.

 I wonder if they see the community mailinglist as COMMUNITY ONLY, i.e.
 no employees allowed? :)

 Cheers,

 - Gunnar

 Laszlo KREKACS wrote:
 Dear List,


 I can't express how sad I'm when I read Andy Green left Openmoko.

 I do not know why he left (and it is not my business anyway), but
 I know since Andy was at Openmoko the kernel side began
 to form shape, and got things work. (suspend? anyone?)

 I know that every people is replacable at a company, but show
 me at least two people who made as much commit/day (and code quality)
 what Andy did.
 You cant, because there is no black magic here, no marketing
 mantra, it is all public and we can see who commits what into the git tree.

 So you just let go the single most valuable people at kernel side.
 Nice try.

 I do not know who is responsible for this desicion but I hope they are
 not the same design team who had fired Rasterman.
 Oh, and Harald Welte had left Openmoko too, but we never knew the exact 
 details.

 Who left?
 At the hardware side: Werner and Joerg
 at the software side: Mirko and hmm, nobody?

 Im counting... How long will they stand?

 If I had enough money I would just hire those people and form a new 
 company and
 outsource the fabrication to a chinese company
 (that's exactly what everyone does including apple) and forget about 
 Openmoko
 (the name was a bad choice anyway ;)

 I know this letter a bit harsh, but it is intented to address to whom
 is concerned:
 Get your head out of your @ss, sit down and think about a bit.
 You must honor those people who gets the job done!

 The best would be just hire back those valueable people, and work out how
 they want to work. Even if they want to form a new (software) company, to
 make sure this situation will never happen again.

 I always wanted to buy the next model of openmoko, but I know exactly,
 if it has
 bugs (and surely it will), never or really slowly will be fixed
 (as the current(=everyone gets fired) situation shows).

 And if it will have hardware bugs, they will be never fixed by
 Openmoko (as the company),
 and I can just hope that some people offer *their free time and
 knowledge* and fix
 the problem UNOFFICIALLY (unless they did not get until fired).

 Can you imagine where we were today without Andy and Rasterman?
 I surely can: an unofficial/unsupported qtextended with an unoptimized
 2.6.22 kernel.

 All those nice things came from these (fired) people.

 I'm afraid of the future.

 Best regards,
  Laszlo

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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Mosher
Inlines below.

arne anka wrote:
There is one thing we tend to be very tight lipped about.  HR issues.
 
 nobody expects to hear internals, but visible information about staff  
 changes, at least when it affects people being some kind of om's face to  
 community, would help.

A couple other have made this suggestion. I would put it on the 
responsible manager to announce the changes in his departments 
coordinated with the person who has a change in status.

  In Sales and Marketing We had the following changes:

  1. Ailsa is no longer with the company
  2. Ijen is no longer with the company.
  3. Tony Tu is no longer reporting to me.

So for right now Sales and Marketing is:

  1. Steve
  2. Chelsea
  3. Jollen

and we get assistence from liane who works the web shop.

 
 As to the other issues, there are some cases were the situation is so
 fluid and still in process that commenting really isnt possible. I'll
 relook at the official buzz fix thread and see if I can add anything
 helpful.
 
 of course it is problematic. but communication is an important part of  
 community building and community relations.
 
 we got those montly community updates, a section like from om, the  
 company, noticing about ongoing issues would be highly apprecaited, i  
 think.
 there, in short, could be mentioned that important, community visible  
 members of staff are leaving or hired or what you wrote regarding the  
 buzz: tests going on, procedure has been etablished, bids are requested,  
 pondering ways of fixing in field ...
 so we could rest assured that those things are not forgotten but being  
 worked on (and maybe the wired headset buzzing would have come up again  
 earlier).

We dont disagree. The issue is always priorities. A while back when we 
were more heavily staffed in sales and marketing I made it a point to
read the community list everyday; however, more and more of my time is
now taken up by other matters; At some point I look at my community list
and say  600 mails, i never get through that then it goes to 800, then
1000. Luckily, there a few folks who will mail me directly when they 
see that some big fire needs my attention. You can do that if you like
Just dont make it an everyday thing.

 
 the heated debates when rasterman left or about the way to handle th buzz  
 fix could maybe have been a lot cooler with a constant flow (or trickle)  
 of information, even if it says we hear you, but we're not quite sure  
 yet, how to procede.

understood.
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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread Michele Renda
On 24/03/2009 03:44, Laszlo KREKACS wrote:
 The best would be just hire back those valueable people, and work out how
 they want to work. Even if they want to form a new (software) company, to
 make sure this situation will never happen again.

Hello,
who told you that he was fired from Openmoko? May be simply he wanted to 
move to another company.
In every case I think is better to stop to speak until we receive a 
official announce (from OM or from Andy).

Michele Renda

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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread clare johnstone
Michele and others you could try reading what Andy said here:

fromAndy Green a...@openmoko.com   hide details   
 Mar 23 (17 hours ago)
to  Nicolas Dufresne nicolas.dufre...@gmail.com   
cc  openmoko-ker...@lists.openmoko.org  
dateMar 23, 2009 1:32 PM
subject Re: [PATCH] Forced shutdown for / Andy  
mailed-by   lists.openmoko.org

regards,
clare

On 3/24/09, Michele Renda michele.re...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 24/03/2009 03:44, Laszlo KREKACS wrote:
   The best would be just hire back those valueable people, and work out how
   they want to work. Even if they want to form a new (software) company, to
   make sure this situation will never happen again.
  

 Hello,
  who told you that he was fired from Openmoko? May be simply he wanted to
  move to another company.
  In every case I think is better to stop to speak until we receive a
  official announce (from OM or from Andy).


  Michele Renda


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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:44:06 +0100 Laszlo KREKACS
laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com said:
 
 I do not know who is responsible for this desicion but I hope they are
 not the same design team who had fired Rasterman.

who said i was fired? i quit (hanged in my resignation) of my own volition. :)
handed in resignation last year start of august - that was mu last month @
om. :)

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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread Alexey Feldgendler
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:04:30 +0100, clare johnstone clar...@gmail.com  
wrote:

 Michele and others you could try reading what Andy said here:
   
   fromAndy Green a...@openmoko.com   hide details   
  Mar 23 (17 hours  
 ago)
   to  Nicolas Dufresne nicolas.dufre...@gmail.com   
   cc  openmoko-ker...@lists.openmoko.org  
   dateMar 23, 2009 1:32 PM
   subject Re: [PATCH] Forced shutdown for / Andy  
   mailed-by   lists.openmoko.org

That still doesn't say he was fired.


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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:12:42 +0100 Alexey Feldgendler ale...@feldgendler.ru
said:

 On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:04:30 +0100, clare johnstone clar...@gmail.com  
 wrote:
 
  Michele and others you could try reading what Andy said here:
  
  fromAndy Green a...@openmoko.com
  hide details Mar 23 (17 hours ago)
  to  Nicolas Dufresne
  nicolas.dufre...@gmail.com cc
  openmoko-ker...@lists.openmoko.org date Mar 23, 2009 1:32
  PM subject  Re: [PATCH] Forced shutdown for / Andy  
  mailed-by   lists.openmoko.org
 
 That still doesn't say he was fired.

at least Laszlo never said he was fired at all. quote:

I can't express how sad I'm when I read Andy Green left Openmoko.

and you  just let go is ambiguous - i.e. he could have been made redundant
(different to being fired), and it could just as easily mean he decided to
leave and you didn't make a counter offer to keep him.

he was wrong that they fired me though. :)

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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes
I love these threads where we talk about company things, like the recent
 official buzz fix thread, or the secret UI design team IRC
conversation, and there is NEVER any response from OpenMoko.

I wonder if they see the community mailinglist as COMMUNITY ONLY, i.e.
no employees allowed? :)

Cheers,

- Gunnar

Laszlo KREKACS wrote:
 Dear List,
 
 
 I can't express how sad I'm when I read Andy Green left Openmoko.
 
 I do not know why he left (and it is not my business anyway), but
 I know since Andy was at Openmoko the kernel side began
 to form shape, and got things work. (suspend? anyone?)
 
 I know that every people is replacable at a company, but show
 me at least two people who made as much commit/day (and code quality)
 what Andy did.
 You cant, because there is no black magic here, no marketing
 mantra, it is all public and we can see who commits what into the git tree.
 
 So you just let go the single most valuable people at kernel side.
 Nice try.
 
 I do not know who is responsible for this desicion but I hope they are
 not the same design team who had fired Rasterman.
 Oh, and Harald Welte had left Openmoko too, but we never knew the exact 
 details.
 
 Who left?
 At the hardware side: Werner and Joerg
 at the software side: Mirko and hmm, nobody?
 
 Im counting... How long will they stand?
 
 If I had enough money I would just hire those people and form a new company 
 and
 outsource the fabrication to a chinese company
 (that's exactly what everyone does including apple) and forget about Openmoko
 (the name was a bad choice anyway ;)
 
 I know this letter a bit harsh, but it is intented to address to whom
 is concerned:
 Get your head out of your @ss, sit down and think about a bit.
 You must honor those people who gets the job done!
 
 The best would be just hire back those valueable people, and work out how
 they want to work. Even if they want to form a new (software) company, to
 make sure this situation will never happen again.
 
 I always wanted to buy the next model of openmoko, but I know exactly,
 if it has
 bugs (and surely it will), never or really slowly will be fixed
 (as the current(=everyone gets fired) situation shows).
 
 And if it will have hardware bugs, they will be never fixed by
 Openmoko (as the company),
 and I can just hope that some people offer *their free time and
 knowledge* and fix
 the problem UNOFFICIALLY (unless they did not get until fired).
 
 Can you imagine where we were today without Andy and Rasterman?
 I surely can: an unofficial/unsupported qtextended with an unoptimized
 2.6.22 kernel.
 
 All those nice things came from these (fired) people.
 
 I'm afraid of the future.
 
 Best regards,
  Laszlo
 
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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread arne anka
 I love these threads where we talk about company things, like the recent
  official buzz fix thread, or the secret UI design team IRC
 conversation, and there is NEVER any response from OpenMoko.

 I wonder if they see the community mailinglist as COMMUNITY ONLY, i.e.
 no employees allowed? :)

well, there are employees  available at community (judging from @openmoko  
addresses) -- but this constant ... brain drain is nothing that makes me  
happy.
at least the community update should have mentioned that.

atm om rather looks like a black box with only now and then some glint  
indicating activity inside and an information flow which seems rather like  
leaking.

after all, om's business is centered around open and based on a strong  
community, if the people being more or less om's face to the community  
leave one after one ... it's not really reassuring.

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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread Joerg Reisenweber
Am Di  24. März 2009 schrieb Laszlo KREKACS:
 Who left?
 At the hardware side: Werner and Joerg
I'm no longer busy for OM on a regular monthly plan. OM is free to contract me 
for particular tasks, but for now that doesn't seem to happen in the near 
future.

cheers
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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread Gothnet




You should have stopped here IMHO. It really is none of our 
(community's) business, and it would be a lot more productive to just 
focus on the question of where do we go from here?


Hey, something being none of our business has never stopped a good rant before!

Personally I'm beginning to feel like the only hope for getting a decent phone 
out of the FR is the independent work going on around android.

Actually, beginning is a lie.

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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-24 Thread Steve Mosher
Thanks Gunnar,

   There is one thing we tend to be very tight lipped about.  HR issues.
That is its very rare that you will find any employee commenting on why
a particular individual is not with the company anymore. Some people are 
let go for performance. Some are let go due to cost cutting. Some choose
voluntary separation. Some request to be let go. This is highly personel
data, so we try to avoid at all costs talking about these issues.

As to the other issues, there are some cases were the situation is so 
fluid and still in process that commenting really isnt possible. I'll 
relook at the official buzz fix thread and see if I can add anything 
helpful.


Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes wrote:
 I love these threads where we talk about company things, like the recent
  official buzz fix thread, or the secret UI design team IRC
 conversation, and there is NEVER any response from OpenMoko.
 
 I wonder if they see the community mailinglist as COMMUNITY ONLY, i.e.
 no employees allowed? :)
 
 Cheers,
 
 - Gunnar
 
 Laszlo KREKACS wrote:
 Dear List,


 I can't express how sad I'm when I read Andy Green left Openmoko.

 I do not know why he left (and it is not my business anyway), but
 I know since Andy was at Openmoko the kernel side began
 to form shape, and got things work. (suspend? anyone?)

 I know that every people is replacable at a company, but show
 me at least two people who made as much commit/day (and code quality)
 what Andy did.
 You cant, because there is no black magic here, no marketing
 mantra, it is all public and we can see who commits what into the git tree.

 So you just let go the single most valuable people at kernel side.
 Nice try.

 I do not know who is responsible for this desicion but I hope they are
 not the same design team who had fired Rasterman.
 Oh, and Harald Welte had left Openmoko too, but we never knew the exact 
 details.

 Who left?
 At the hardware side: Werner and Joerg
 at the software side: Mirko and hmm, nobody?

 Im counting... How long will they stand?

 If I had enough money I would just hire those people and form a new company 
 and
 outsource the fabrication to a chinese company
 (that's exactly what everyone does including apple) and forget about Openmoko
 (the name was a bad choice anyway ;)

 I know this letter a bit harsh, but it is intented to address to whom
 is concerned:
 Get your head out of your @ss, sit down and think about a bit.
 You must honor those people who gets the job done!

 The best would be just hire back those valueable people, and work out how
 they want to work. Even if they want to form a new (software) company, to
 make sure this situation will never happen again.

 I always wanted to buy the next model of openmoko, but I know exactly,
 if it has
 bugs (and surely it will), never or really slowly will be fixed
 (as the current(=everyone gets fired) situation shows).

 And if it will have hardware bugs, they will be never fixed by
 Openmoko (as the company),
 and I can just hope that some people offer *their free time and
 knowledge* and fix
 the problem UNOFFICIALLY (unless they did not get until fired).

 Can you imagine where we were today without Andy and Rasterman?
 I surely can: an unofficial/unsupported qtextended with an unoptimized
 2.6.22 kernel.

 All those nice things came from these (fired) people.

 I'm afraid of the future.

 Best regards,
  Laszlo

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Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-23 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
Dear List,


I can't express how sad I'm when I read Andy Green left Openmoko.

I do not know why he left (and it is not my business anyway), but
I know since Andy was at Openmoko the kernel side began
to form shape, and got things work. (suspend? anyone?)

I know that every people is replacable at a company, but show
me at least two people who made as much commit/day (and code quality)
what Andy did.
You cant, because there is no black magic here, no marketing
mantra, it is all public and we can see who commits what into the git tree.

So you just let go the single most valuable people at kernel side.
Nice try.

I do not know who is responsible for this desicion but I hope they are
not the same design team who had fired Rasterman.
Oh, and Harald Welte had left Openmoko too, but we never knew the exact details.

Who left?
At the hardware side: Werner and Joerg
at the software side: Mirko and hmm, nobody?

Im counting... How long will they stand?

If I had enough money I would just hire those people and form a new company and
outsource the fabrication to a chinese company
(that's exactly what everyone does including apple) and forget about Openmoko
(the name was a bad choice anyway ;)

I know this letter a bit harsh, but it is intented to address to whom
is concerned:
Get your head out of your @ss, sit down and think about a bit.
You must honor those people who gets the job done!

The best would be just hire back those valueable people, and work out how
they want to work. Even if they want to form a new (software) company, to
make sure this situation will never happen again.

I always wanted to buy the next model of openmoko, but I know exactly,
if it has
bugs (and surely it will), never or really slowly will be fixed
(as the current(=everyone gets fired) situation shows).

And if it will have hardware bugs, they will be never fixed by
Openmoko (as the company),
and I can just hope that some people offer *their free time and
knowledge* and fix
the problem UNOFFICIALLY (unless they did not get until fired).

Can you imagine where we were today without Andy and Rasterman?
I surely can: an unofficial/unsupported qtextended with an unoptimized
2.6.22 kernel.

All those nice things came from these (fired) people.

I'm afraid of the future.

Best regards,
 Laszlo

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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-23 Thread Mike Montour
Laszlo KREKACS wrote:

 I can't express how sad I'm when I read Andy Green left Openmoko.
 
 I do not know why he left (and it is not my business anyway), but
 I know since Andy was at Openmoko the kernel side began
 to form shape, and got things work. (suspend? anyone?)

You should have stopped here IMHO. It really is none of our 
(community's) business, and it would be a lot more productive to just 
focus on the question of where do we go from here?


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Re: Back to the Basics plan: Andy left

2009-03-23 Thread NeilBrown
On Tue, March 24, 2009 2:03 pm, Mike Montour wrote:
 Laszlo KREKACS wrote:

 I can't express how sad I'm when I read Andy Green left Openmoko.

 I do not know why he left (and it is not my business anyway), but
 I know since Andy was at Openmoko the kernel side began
 to form shape, and got things work. (suspend? anyone?)

 You should have stopped here IMHO. It really is none of our
 (community's) business, and it would be a lot more productive to just
 focus on the question of where do we go from here?

I have to say that I think the answer to that is up stream.

Code doesn't have to be completely working before it goes into
the upstream kernel.  Just supported and useful are often enough.

I understand that there is work underway to get some of the openmoko
kernel code upstream.  I think that should be a major focus.  Once it
is all in, then work can go back to enhancing and bug fixing.
It would be awesome if mainline-2.6.30 or even 2.6.31 would run on
the Freerunner unchanged!

When it is all in mainline, it is a lot easier for more people
to contribute.

NeilBrown


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