Hi >> the last days I thought a little bit about our current development for >> FSO and SHR and I am not very happy with it. >Thank you for asking these questions. Here are my immediate thoughts on >them. Yes, dito from my site. It's a real problem that OpenMoko had not this good start that we all hoped, and that we lack of enough developers to get further then we could...
>- I also feel concerned about the future of FSO and SHR, so I appreciate
> your raising this topic. I wonder how big the pool of interested
> people is now? Could it now be so small as to be unsustainable? (I
> hope not! We need an open smartphone platform now more than ever.)
FACK
>- I agree with you that it would be nicer to have more a structured
> roadmap and release schedule, but the community cannot impose that on
> the developers. Those who actually do the work must decide.
Yes. That's it... well we could do it like Maemo which nearly "enslaves" their
FOSS-developers by putting pressure on them with deadlines and so on.
I totally hate such politics.
Where I come from, no one takes orders from anyone.
I used to be in anarchistic bunch of people where a minimum of coordination is
needed because everyone can take care of himself very well and knows himself
what to do.
And it seems to have worked out here as well.
At least the product of our work is sufficient for the usage as a dayli phone
for me :-)
>- My personal interest is for the GTA02 and forthcoming GTA04. My first
> goal would be for FSO/SHR to reach "square one" of being a reliable
> smartphone platform, which for me just means reliable telephony, GPRS,
> GPS, Wifi and web browsing. Once the platform is in place and
> reliable, I'd like to see us move onto "apps" - which in many cases
> means just simplified interfaces to existing websites.
Well, I today finalized the OE boardspec for the gta04 devboard (beagle hybrid)
as soon as mickey as finished review and polishing, he will upload it.
I hope that this might motivate some people to help developing SHR,
even if they don't have a FreeRunner, but a BeagleBoard.
I also have designed some very innovative features for feature OpenMokos
which will build up a killer argument against recent smartphone series.
>- I am personally trying to finalize my commitments in other places so
> that I have more time to contribute.
Very well, now that the new device will come out soon, we can use more
manpower to improve the userspace part too.
>Hope that's of some use!
> Neil
Absolutely.
best regards
lev
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