Open development/Maemo roadmap/Fremantle
Information announced about the Fremantle roadmap:
New to Maemo:
- OMAP3 support
- HSPA/3G support
- High definition camera support
- OpenGL ES
- Clutter
- Meta Tracker
- PulseAudio
- GUPnP
- OHM
- upstart
- A2DP & AVRCP support
- OpenMAX
Remarkable updates:
- GTK+ 2.12
- Farsight2
More explained at http://flors.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/osim-world-maemo-devsesh-slides/ (relevant content needs to be moved here).
Initial list of packages planned for the Fremantle SDK alpha.
Timeline
This is a timeline based on known events and announcements. Many dates are quite flexible at this point.
- First Alpha SDK, first report on API changes and beginning of weekly releases. Suitable for platform development only. December 2008.
- Mature alpha SDK with application framework and API freeze available around January-February 2009.
- FOSDEM in February. Proposal for a Maemo developer gathering with a set of goals.
- Bossa conference in March. Proposal for a Maemo developer gathering with a set of goals.
- Beta SDK released between March-May, ready for application development including support for Mozilla based browser and Greasemonkey add-ons.
- Qt 4.4 "garage" support and Theme Maker by Urho Konttori planned to be ready by the beta SDK release.
- Final release when ready. :)