Diablo Community Project

The goal of the Diablo Community Project is to extend the life of Diablo software 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

Update Details

  • Maintains 100% compatibility for all apps
  • Installs on N8x0 NITs with cooperation of maemo.org
  • User level documentation (NOT a Nokia hacker's edition)
  • Rewrite or open previously closed components of Diablo
  • "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

Current status

  • Bugtracker: bugs.maemo.org, classification: Extras product:diablo-community-updates. Please check the bugtracker for progress. Fixes may not be reported here.
  • Currently in public testing (changelog). Will be moved to community repository once testing is completed and judged to be stable.

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.


Future Goals

Efforts to rewrite or open previously closed components of Diablo have been unsuccessful. See http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=699617&postcount=461 Therefore, a plan needs to be developed to avoid obsolesence that is not dependent on the cooperation of Nokia.

  • Ensure ongoing support for Diablo by maemo.org or other
  • Archive/maintain Diablo specific software
  • Promote new features and enhancements to Diablo
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