maemo.org team
maemo.org team
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Webmaster
Niels Breet (X-Fade) |
Among other things, Niels is the administrator of the Maemo servers.
Docmaster
Dave Neary (dneary) |
The goal of the docmaster is to enable co-production of documentation - by removing any barriers and by organising the community around that goal.
The ongoing tasks of the docmaster are:
- Tracking of documentation bugs in bugzilla
- Co-ordination of maintenance work in the maemo.org wiki
- Identification of points which can be improved in terms of availability and access to documentation resources related to Maemo
- Maintaining elections
Docmaster related documentation
- /Generating election results
- /Updating maemo.org - how to update the deployed Midgard install after making a change
- Edit help extension
Bugmaster
Andre Klapper (andre) (at Openismus GmbH) |
Taking care of maemo.org Bugzilla, mainly:
- Triage/Clean up reports and get them into a valuable state whenever needed
- Import and keep in sync with Nokia's internal bug database
- Maintenance (Adding / setting new products, milestones, 3rd party apps etc)
- Bugsquad community building (e.g. having Bugdays, #maemo-bugs on IRC)
Bugmaster documentation
- Bugzilla administration guide
- How to add a product from Extras to bugs.maemo.org
- Bugzilla triage guide
- How to clone bugs from public to internal bugzilla
- Stock answers to common situations that arise for bug triagers
Debmaster
Jeremiah Foster (Jeremiah) |
Specifically the debmaster:
- Works with developers who want to submit their software to maemo.org's repositories.
- Provides documentation on Debian's deb format and the various files in a package.
- Helps develop a maemo.org toolset, based on Debian tools but modified for Maemo.
- Co-operates with upstream (Debian) and downstream (users) as well as sidestream (Nokia).
- Maintains an open communication channel with the community using the various community channels: #maemo, ITt (talk.maemo.org), mailing lists, wiki, etc.
- Works with Nokia and the Community Council to develop and define packaging policy.
- Suggests innovations and developments of the Maemo packaging format.
Debmaster related documentation
Talkmaster
Reggie Suplido (Reggie) |
Distmaster
Carsten V. Munk (Stskeeps) |
The primary role as a distmaster is defined as facilitating the development of Maemo variants (Mer, Diablo/Fremantle Community Variants, etc):
- Developing collaboration spaces for developers of Maemo variants
- Mentoring and engaging developers in order to move the Maemo platform and variants ahead
- Communicating with stakeholders (Nokia, distributions implementing the Maemo platform, users and developers)
Secondary role is serving as a paid system developer for the maemo.org community:
- Developing fixes and features for the Maemo OS & variants either on his/her own based on the input of maemo.org community council
- or through activating, mentoring for and collaborating with community developer(s) in order to get it completed in collaboration with upstream developers.
Community Council
Randall Arnold (Texrat) | Alan Bruce (qole) | Graham Cobb (gcobb) | Matthew Lewis (penguinbait) | Valério Valério (VDVsx) |
Council Chair |
Community processes and documentation
A list of community-related processes and documentation managed or generated by the maemo.org team:
- Karma - documentation for how users get karma points
- Social news - a description of the social news algorithm