Hi Martin, Exciting times. Thanks for letting us know about this.
On 5 April 2010 10:23, Martin Albisetti <[email protected]> wrote: > We're still ramping up our servers to support new record level loads, so we > expect the next week or two to be a bit bumpy. We should have these > infrastructure improvements ready before the Lucid release. > > All of the information to start testing is available at: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/PhoneSync/ > Any chance this page can get some love from the developers? My phone (Android based HTC Hero) is not listed at https://edge.one.ubuntu.com/phones/ - perhaps you should add a note to _that_ page rather than have it has a bracketed side note on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/PhoneSync/ that iphone and android users might want to click one of these three links. The fact that two of the most popular platforms (iPhone and Android) are relegated to side notes rings alarm bells for me. On the subject of which none of them lead me to a friendly way to install funambol on my phone. The first two are flat out broken links (accept this could be a local issue) the third tells me the project has moved and there's no easy way on the target linked page to actually _get_ a released package, just an alpha version. Not sure I like the sound of alpha quality code monkeying with my contacts :S Looking at the alpha link I see "Latest version is Funambol Sync Client v. 8.5 (alpha), contacts sync for Android 2.0 only (not compatible with Android 1.6 and older"). The HTC Hero runs 1.6. So it looks like I can't install it even if I wanted to. Navigating to "Downloads" and then "I want to sync my Phone" https://www.forge.funambol.org/download/#phone (the direct link we should probably have on the wiki), I find Android only listed under "Latest Funambol Clients Developers-only Release v. 8.5". Furthermore I'd much prefer to install a package from the marketplace. Given we are often telling our Ubuntu users to use the store/package manager to search rather than installing debs from random sites, it seems somewhat crooked to ask people to do exactly that on their phone. The whole "installing something on the phone" process needs to be made a lot smoother and it should be made clear in the wiki that Android 1.6 isn't even supported. HTC Heros still ship with 1.6 and they're a fairly popular phone here in the UK. Cheers, Al. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-users Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuone-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
