Mer/Releases/0.13
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Mer 0.13 was prepared in the sprint 0.13: 27. April 2009 - 11 May 2009. Testing period: 11 May 2009 - 18 May 2009, release 20 May 2009. If you want help with the release, show up in #mer on IRC, on irc.freenode.net.
Call for developer participation
There will be a Maemo/Mozilla hackfest in Copenhagen (Mozilla Maemo Danish Weekend), Saturday-Sunday 30-31 May 2009 (with party Friday 29 May), where Mer is one of the focus areas as well. As it is a hackfest the focus will be more on coding than on presentations. From Mer project so far Stskeeps will be attending.
If you have the time and ability to show up and ability to push some code or artwork or other things through and help out - do show up, it'll be a blast and will bring us closer to Mer 1.0. We hope to establish a IRC presence as well if you want to contribute remotely.
Focus area from Mer project point of view will be a weekend focused on getting Mer ready for day-to-day usage (1.0), both logistically (repositories, restricted builders, etc) and user interface (control panels, getting audio to work on N8x0, and so forth).
Notable accomplishments and news
- We have moved away from Jaiku for microblogging, please see Mer/Awareness on how to keep track of the Mer activities now.
- We have now 100% moved Mer to being built in OpenSUSE Build Service, which means no more Scratchbox. See Mer/Build for more information or contact lbt.
- Nokia has sponsored several of the Mer team members making them able to show up at the Mozilla Maemo Danish Weekend - thanks!!
- We began to include Fremantle beta sources
- First boot wizard on the Neo Freerunner
- Left handed scroll bars setting in themes control panel
- Mer on a Zaurus showing Google Maps under Midori
- There will be discussions on UDS Karmic about Mer as Ubuntu MID, and we look forward to working together with them to improve Mer packages and spread the Maemo platform to more users.
- zenvoid and Stskeeps have received donated SmartQ5 devices from SmartDevices and Mer was running on it less than 23 hours after receiving it :) We welcome all SmartQ MID users to the Mer project and hope you'll help us :)
- There are discussions of SmartDevices and 10 developer rebates, more information to come.
- SmartDevices has provided bootloader (Qi, uboot), kernel sources and firmware maker, so far holding up to Mer/Documentation/Vendor_Social_Contract
- Aired Vendor social contract & Mer, ways to deal with OpenGL ES on N8x0s
- Qt for Maemo framework compiled
- Now using fbdev instead of omapfb as X driver on N8x0
- Midori now has webkit by Bundyo with HIM support.
- For v0.14 only X86, N8x0, SmartQ5 is supported
- Rest will come (770, Beagleboard, Pocket Loox) once we can build their kernels in OBS.
- Our sprints now last a month - and we've put a guide up on how to participate in Mer in a structured manner, see Mer/Sprints
