Drawing up a roadmap

One of the most important documents a project can have is some kind of elaboration of what the maintainers want to see happen in the future. This is the concrete expression of the project vision – it allows people to adhere to the vision, and gives them the opportunity to contribute to its realisation. This is the document I’ll be calling a roadmap.

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Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 7 Feb 2011

Front Page Minutes from MeeGo Community Office on taking “Extras” forward Following discussions on the MeeGo mailing lists, David Greaves presented his thoughts on the issues needed to be addressed to take the concept of community repositories forward on MeeGo.

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.06

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-01-31 through 2011-02-06 As of 2011-02-07 Extras contains: total items 2309 ( 40) total open items 861 ( 18) open bugs 504 ( 7) critical/blocker 29 ( 1) “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 3 “crash” 0 “patch” 4 reopened 7 unconfirmed 304 ( 6) open enhancements 357 ( 11) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 4 reopened 1 unconfirmed 147 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (7%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (5%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 5181 [gPodder] Automatically download new episodes when on ‘home’ connection (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 7413 [ogg-support] Cover art not shown for Ogg Vorbis files (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (4%) 11844 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Email problem if attachment or picture included (new this week) (3%) 5504 [ogg-support] No seeking for Flac (1.0.5) (-1 this week) (3%) 6456 [ogg-support] Register audio/ogg mimetype to support *.oga Vorbis audio files (-1 this week) (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (-1 this week) Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free.

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Seeding MeeGo

Propagating a novel  operating system (OS) can often be a frustrating chicken-vs-egg scenario, as many abandoned platforms and even current ones like Linux can demonstrate.  An OS won’t gain many converts without a reasonable stream of ready-made applications as well as the necessary ecosystem support ( especially device drivers ).  In open source contexts, this is compounded by Digital Rights Management (DRM) and similar sticky, usually legal, bogeys

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Maemo Weekly News for Monday, 31 Jan 2011

Front Page Maemo 5 & N900 get community OS updates One of your editors, Andrew Flegg , posted – on behalf of the Maemo Community Council and Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh – the announcement of the Fremantle Community SSU project. “Seamless Software Update (SSU), is the term Nokia used to brand the over-the-air updates of Maemo.

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maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2011.05

A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-01-24 through 2011-01-30 As of 2011-01-31 Extras contains: total items 2269 ( 25) total open items 843 ( 17) open bugs 497 ( 7) critical/blocker 28 ( 1) “easyfix” 4 “moreinfo” 3 “crash” 0 “patch” 4 reopened 7 unconfirmed 298 ( 4) open enhancements 346 ( 10) “easyfix” 1 “moreinfo” 1 “patch” 4 ( 1) reopened 1 unconfirmed 146 ( 8) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 13 weeks): (7%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (5%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (5%) 5181 [gPodder] Automatically download new episodes when on ‘home’ connection (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (4%) 7413 [ogg-support] Cover art not shown for Ogg Vorbis files (4%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 5504 [ogg-support] No seeking for Flac (1.0.5) (3%) 6456 [ogg-support] Register audio/ogg mimetype to support *.oga Vorbis audio files (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 5673 [eCoach] Implement translation infrastructure Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes (unchanged for 12 weeks): (7%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (6%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (6%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (5%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file (2%) 5564 [Dialcentral] Include links to the voice mail recordings in DC Please visit Bugzilla to vote.

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Maemo 5 gets community OS updates

The Maemo Community Council and Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh are pleased to announce the launch of the Maemo 5 Community SSU project. It is currently in a testing and elaboration phase, and your help is required. What is it?

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The Nokia Revolution.

Watching events unfold on the world stage, I find myself wondering exactly how much responsibility lies in the hands of the Finns. Once their goal was to put a phone into the hands of every citizen of the planet

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Technical Product Owner for Desktop, MeeGo (SYS000000CR)

  MeeGo Computers is where Nokia builds mobile computers on Linux.

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MeeGo Community Development: Apps, Surrounds and the Community OBS

So… lets say we have some device that run MeeGo; what else canit do? Where are the apps?

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