Diablo Community Project

The goal of the Diablo Community Project is to extend the life of software inside Diablo (Maemo 4) and keep it fully functional.

Contents

Short Term Goals

  • Extend the usable life of Diablo and associated GUI
  • Extend the usable life of the N8x0 internet tablets
  • Focus, harness and support community contributions to Diablo
  • Facilitate updates of the software on N8x0 internet tablets (e.g. SSU)

SSU Project

  1. Promote the development of "opt-in" packages as a "community-updates" component for Diablo.
  2. Add "community-updates" component to Extras.
  3. Build new hildon-application-manager and osso-software-version-rx* packages.
  4. Install opt-in packages as "community-updates" and test.


Discuss the SSU Project here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=30648

Initial Update

  • Catch low-hanging fruit: (bugs which are already fixed, stable and desirable enhancements (e.g., screen rotation, OTG) - no betas)
  • OMAP2 graphics drivers
  • Maintain 100% compatibility for all apps
  • Install on N8x0 NITs with cooperation of Nokia
  • Provide changelog
  • User level documentation (NOT a hacker's edition)
  • Timeline: 2-4 months(?)

2010 Update

  • More bug fixes, enhancements (RtComm (or Ofono))?
  • Rewrite or open previously closed components of Diablo
  • Promote new features and enhancements to Diablo

Future Goals

  • Transition support of Diablo from Nokia to the open source community
  • Archive/maintain Diablo specific software

Current status

  • "community" and "community-testing" maemo.org repositories have been created: 
deb http://repository.maemo.org/community/ diablo free non-free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/community-testing/ diablo free non-free

Testing

  1. Understand that these packages are unofficial software updates provided by the maemo.org community with no warranty expressed or implied and are not supported by Nokia. Is is highly recommended that you have a recent backup before proceeding and that you are comfortable reflashing your device if necessary.
  2. Make sure you have not (perhaps unintentionally) removed the appropriate osso-software-version-rxXX package for your device, of if you have re-install it as SSU simply won't work without it.
  3. Visit http://repository.maemo.org/community-testing/community-testing.install with the built-in browser (microb) and open it with the application manager when prompted. This will install the community-testing repository and an enabler package that loads its public key and sets up the package domain with a higher priority than the nokia-system one so that nokia-system packages can be updated.
  4. Refresh the application manager (bottom right button) so it will see the packages in the community-updates domain and offer the update.
  5. Install the update.
  6. Report any issues here.
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