Period: 16 February 2009 - 2 March 2009 [[Mer/Releases/0.9|Release]]

==== Tasks ====

{| class="wikitable"
| style="background:LightGreen" | Completed
| style="background:LightBlue" | Good progress
| Just standing
| style="background:Orange" | Some help needed!
| style="background:Tomato" | Urgent for next release
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Committed & Target
! Task
! Owner
! %
! Highlights
|- style="background:Orange"
| || set kernel.core-pattern to something sane consistent across platforms || none || 50% || [http://webwizardry.net/~timeless/10-coredumps.conf
this sysctl conf file], needs packaging: mkdir -p /var/cores from postinst.
|- style="background:Orange"
| || Include hildon-theme-layout-4-synth (alter to use proper fallback icon theme) and tritanium, meta, okuda, kobayashi from extras-devel || none || 10% || hildon-theme-layout-4-synth now in repository (Stskeeps). Themes seem to depend on maemo4-theme-fixes??
|- style="background:Orange"
| || Look into porting Powerlaunch or doing an alternative in Python || VDVsx || 5% || Starting
|- style=""
| || package a tslib calibration tool for X or framebuffer? || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || home applets behave oddly when in non-800x480 || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Port gdm-autologin from deblet and use /etc/default/autologin || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || look at timeless' enus stuff || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || 770 wifi module patches to support WPA, IW wireless extensions || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Use lp:~mer-committers/m-r/hildon-input-method & lp:~mer-committers/m-r/hildon-input-method-framework and see if you can get them to work (Fremantle versions) || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Implement hald-addon-bme open source based on [https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/dsme/trunk/adhoc/dummy_bme.c?revision=155&root=dsm&view=markup dummy BME] and [[Mer/Documentation/BME_Protocol]] , see [http://gitweb.pingu.fi/?p=hald-addon-retu-adc.git;a=tree this] for example || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Implement a libconic ICD dbus messages handler relaying to NetworkManager || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || QEMU/N8x0 image of Mer || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Start localization project for Mer, using launchpad (we have .pos, but we need people and translations) || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || get a run-standalone.sh like thing || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Fix C++ in SDK (see straightjacket packages) || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Rotation shouldn't crash X? || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Fix rootstrap for SB to be more recent (libkrb depends on libc6 >= 2.9 at the moment) || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Try to get various Python-based applets working for Mer || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || docpurge should interact better with dpkg and upgrades || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Replacing SDK icons with more modern ones || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Modern kernels, get newer kernels working with the 770, N8x0, and use stlc45xx on N8x0s || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Make kernel-diablo-modules-gserial and implement support with help of rescue menu || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Find better solution for APT not working on jffs2: http://glomation.net/smf/index.php?topic=5.0 || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Update debhelper in Mer Scratchbox SDK devkit || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || hildon-plugins-settings-cpa: creates duplicate application menu. || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Figure out why python-osso fails to build in SDK || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Patch libvte with further maemo changes (blinking interval, Enter, etc) || none || 0% ||
|- style="background:LightBlue"
| || Make 770 image not have kernel-diablo-modules and such || none || 30% || found a kernel-diablo-modules in foundations/mer, might have done something..
|- style="background:LightBlue"
| || Add FDI for Nokia keyboards (see [http://trac.tspre.org/svn/deblet/trunk/packages/main/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi this] and [http://trac.tspre.org/svn/deblet/trunk/packages/main/nokia-xkb-data/ this] || Darken || 80% || Check this [http://internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=259961&postcount=57] - Added keycode problem fix in xserver-xorg-input-evdev, now in repository. Patched repository actually. Needs testing.
|- style="background:LightBlue"
| || Make hildon-desktop-env use a configuration file to determine wether it needs to show cursor or not (useful for x86) || johnx || 95% || Could use some testing on x86s with touchscreens
|- style="background:LightBlue"
| December || [[Task:Community_firmware_image_distribution|Proposal for distribution of firmware images including closed-source bits needed for community editions]] || Stskeeps || 50% || First proposal involving initfs bits proposed through maemo-community. [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-community/2009-January/002946.html Positive Nokia response] [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2009-February/003114.html wish list for 3rd party components]
|- style="background:LightBlue"
| 2009-01-17 || Move project from launchpad to maemo.org garage || Stskeeps || 40% || Project retrieved (mer.garage.maemo.org), [https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mer Mer on bugs.maemo.org]. Blockers: [https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3319&group_id=841&atid=3136 Multiple git repositories per project] [https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3320&group_id=841&atid=3136 Personal git repositories].
|}

==== Bugs ====

Bug reports in bugzilla discovered through or related to Mer development in this sprint or outstanding still:

{{#bugzilla:id=4111,4102,4101,4062,4093,4043,4023,3858,3939,3021
|columns=id,severity,product,status,resolution,summary,to
}}

== Released files and guides ==

Disclaimer:

* '''There is -no- warranty'''. This may blow up your MMC, steal your wife or cause doomsday to come around. But if you find some bugs, please report them on [https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mer bugs.maemo.org] and we'll try to see what we can do to fix the bug causing it.
* If anything goes wrong, grab a USB cable, and rescue mode is done through holding down Home key when booting Mer (on tablets)

=== MD5sums ===

0772b1e9696abfa3385f225d7c22cecb mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.img.raw.gz
d88403e0aef6a9a0e14fbdcc7d848565 mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.tar.gz
63e824cd3cab12e6c5088df3a11d6e2b mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.vmdk.zip

{|
|-
|0772b1e9696abfa3385f225d7c22cecb || mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.img.raw.gz
|-
|d88403e0aef6a9a0e14fbdcc7d848565 || mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.tar.gz
|-
|63e824cd3cab12e6c5088df3a11d6e2b || mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.vmdk.zip
|}

=== Generic x86 - VMDK (VMware disk image) ===

* [http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.8/mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.vmdk.zip Generic X86 bootable VMDK image] - root password is 'rootme'

==== Installation in VirtualBox ====
# Unzip zip file
# Open VirtualBox, create new machine (click *New*):
#* Name: Mer 0.8
#* OS type: Linux
#* Version: Ubuntu
#* RAM: 128 at least.
#* Disk: click "existing", find the mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.vmdk file, select, select
#* Next
#* Finish.

=== Generic x86 - RAW image ===

* [http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.8/mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.img.raw.gz Generic X86 RAW gzipped image] - usable in virtual machine products such as Parallels and such supporting RAW disk images (gunzip first).

=== Generic x86 - tar.gz image ===
* [http://stskeeps.subnetmask.net/mer/0.8/mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.tar.gz Generic X86 tar.gz rootfs image]. Usable both for chroot and actually installing on a machine.

==== Installation (chroot) ====
<pre>
mkdir mer-0.8
cd mer-0.8 && sudo tar xzf mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.tar.gz
sudo mkdir -p tmp/.X11-unix home/$USER/.osso
sudo mv usr/bin/maemo-invoker usr/bin/maemo-invoker.real
echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nPROG="$1"\nshift\nexec "$PROG" "$@"' | sudo tee usr/bin/maemo-invoker
sudo chmod 755 usr/bin/maemo-invoker
echo 'nameserver <mynameresolver>' | sudo tee -a etc/resolv.conf
</pre>

===== Start-up (from within <tt>mer-0.8</tt> directory) =====
<pre>
Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac -extension Composite 2>/dev/null 1>&2 &
sudo mount --bind /tmp/.X11-unix tmp/.X11-unix
sudo mount --bind /dev/pts dev/pts
sudo mount -t proc proc proc
sudo mount -t sysfs sysfs sys
sudo chroot .
export DISPLAY=:2.0
/etc/init.d/dbus start
start-hildon
</pre>

==== Installation (machine) ====

See [[Mer/Documentation/Making_x86_Mer_Bootable]]

Mer/Releases/0.8

2009-02-07T16:03:27Z

84.238.94.136:

This documentation is entirely for the purpose of implementing software gathering battery information on Nokia Internet Tablets, not alteration of battery management state.

General protocol, published https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/dsme/trunk/adhoc/dummy_bme.c?revision=155&root=dsm&view=markup , released as LGPL 2.1

* UNIX socket connection to /tmp/.bmesrv
* Client: send('BMentity')
* Server: send('\n')

After handshake:

<pre>
typedef struct {
uint16 type, subtype;
} BMEHeader;
</pre>

types so far (NAME, (type, subtype)):

== EM_BATTERY_INFO_REQ (0x06, 0x00) ==

<pre>
typedef struct {
BMEHeader header;
u_int32_t flags; // Set to 0xFFFFFFFF to get all data
} BME_EM_BATTERY_INFO_Req;

struct emsg_battery_info_reply {
uint32 a;
uint32 flags;
uint16 c;
uint16 d;
uint16 temp; // Battery temperature measured in Kelvin
uint16 f;
uint16 g;
uint16 h;
uint16 i;
uint16 j;
uint16 k;
uint16 l;
};
</pre>

== Some BULK0 message (0x42, 0x00) ==

<pre>
typedef struct {
BMEHeader header;
u_int32_t flags; // Set to 0xFFFFFFFF to get all data
} BME_EM_BULK_Req;

struct emsg_bme_bulk_reply {
uint32 unknown1;
uint32 unknown2;
uint32 unknown3;
uint16 sw_status; // Battery monitor SW status
uint16 instaneous_battery_voltage; // Instantaneous battery voltage (mV)
uint16 // Remaining standby time to battery low (mins)
uint16 unknown4;
uint16 unknown5;
uint16 unknown6;
uint16 // Battery monitor check voltage (mV)
uint16 // Battery low warning interval counter
uint16 // Double median filtered battery voltage
uint16 // Initial battery monitor voltage (mV)
uint16 // Time per battery bar (mins)
uint16 // DMF voltage sampled at first battery low (mV)
uint32 // Average phone current (uA)
uint16 // Most recent battery charge condition (mAh)
uint16 // Lowest TX-Off voltage (mV)
uint16 // Lowest TX-On voltage (mV)
uint16 // Largest TX-Off/On voltage difference (mV)
uint8 // Battery bar level log mask
uint8 // Previous battery bar level
uint8 // Battery low reason
uint8 // CS state information
uint16 // Number of battery bars
uint16 // Battery type
uint16 // Temperature, in kelvin
uint16 // Battery capacity
uint16 // Battery impedance (mOhm)
uint16 // Present value of v_bat_full_level
uint16 // Present value of v_bat_low_ths_mv
uint16 unknown7;
uint16 unknown8;
uint16 unknown9;
uint16 // Load current estimated by Batmon4 (uA)
uint16 unknown10;
};
</pre>

== Some BULK1 message (0x43, 0x00) ==

<pre>
typedef struct {
BMEHeader header;
u_int32_t flags; // Set to 0xFFFFFFFF to get all data
} BME_EM_BULK1_Req;

struct emsg_bme_bulk1_reply {
uint32 unknown1;
uint32 unknown2;
uint32 unknown3;
uint16 // Elapsed model time (min)
uint16 // Tx-Off battery voltage (mV)
uint16 // Tx-On battery voltage (mV)
uint8 // Battery power state
uint8 // Batmon4 internal flags2
uint8 // Batmon4 internal flags3
uint8 // Charging method
uint16 // Present Phi value (mV)
uint16 // Present Delta Phi value (mV)
uint8 // Charging mode
uint8 // Previous charging mode
uint8 // Charger type
uint8 // Previous charger type
uint16 // Instantaneous battery voltage (mV)
uint8 // Number of charger checks (0-9) ?
uint8 // Charger recognition state
uint16 unknown4;
uint16 // Instantaneous charger current (mA)
uint16 unknown5;
uint16 // Charging time (min)
uint16 // Average Vchar (mV)
uint16 // Equivalent DC charger current (mA)
uint8 // Battery full flag (0 or 1)
uint8 // HW Cha PWM value L ??
uint8 // Cha PWM value L ??
uint8 unknown6;
uint16 // Open switch battery voltage (mV)
uint16 // Closed switch battery voltage (mV)
uint16 unknown7;
};
</pre>

== Some BULK2 message (0x44, 0x00) ==

<pre>
typedef struct {
BMEHeader header;
u_int32_t flags; // Set to 0xFFFFFFFF to get all data
} BME_EM_BULK2_Req;

struct emsg_bme_bulk2_reply {
uint32 unknown1;
uint32 unknown2;
uint32 unknown3;
uint16 // Conf. battery footprint
uint16 // Conf. minimum standby current (mA)
uint16 // Conf. Batmon battery low voltage (Safety level)
uint16 // Conf. Batmon battery low voltage (Empty)
uint16 // Configured number of battery bars
uint16 unknown4;
};
</pre>

2009-01-26T13:05:24Z

84.238.94.136:

== Straightjacket packages ==

This is a list of packages that did not compile in Scratchbox, and that we had to build natively:

* python-osso: http://trac.tspre.org:8000/python-osso_jaunty-armel-1232387331.log (python extension build problem)
* python-hildon: http://trac.tspre.org:8000/python-hildon_jaunty-armel-sb-1232400294.log (python extension build problem)
* python-hildondesktop: http://trac.tspre.org:8000/python-hildondesktop=0.0.2-2mer2_armel-0901212232.log (python extension build problem)
* python-conic: http://trac.tspre.org:8000/python-conic_armel-sb-0901212240.log (python extension build problem)
* vte: http://trac.tspre.org:8000/vte=1:0.17.4-0ubuntu1mer2_jaunty-armel-1232381310.log (potential debhelper issue)

This is a list of packages that did compile in Scratchbox but failed natively:

* hildon-application-manager: (c++ problem /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_ARM_1.3.3' not found (required by hildon-application-manager.launch) )

Mer/Sprints/0.7

2009-01-26T12:12:46Z

84.238.94.136: /* Bugs */

Period: 18 January 2009 - 1 February 2009 [[Mer/Releases/0.7|Release]]

==== Tasks ====

{| class="wikitable"
| style="background:LightGreen" | Completed
| style="background:LightBlue" | Good progress
| Just standing
| style="background:Orange" | Some help needed!
| style="background:Tomato" | Really stuck/delayed
| style="background:Red" | Urgent for next release
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Committed & Target
! Task
! Owner
! %
! Highlights
|- style="background:Orange"
| || [[Mer/Tasks/Open_System_Sounds|Open system sounds]] (startup chime, touchscreen tap, etc) || opengeekv2 || 0% ||
|- style="background:Orange"
| || Include hildon-theme-layout-4-synth (alter to use proper fallback icon theme) and tritanium, meta, okuda, kobayashi from extras-devel || none || 10% || hildon-theme-layout-4-synth now in repository (Stskeeps). Themes seem to depend on maemo4-theme-fixes??
|- style=""
| || Use lp:~mer-committers/m-r/hildon-input-method & lp:~mer-committers/m-r/hildon-input-method-framework and see if you can get them to work (Fremantle versions) || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || integrate clipboard-manager || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || get a run-standalone.sh like thing || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Port and build http://repository.maemo.org/pool/diablo/free/h/hildon-plugins-settings/ (statusbar applet config || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Experiment with Droid Sans within hildon-theme-liberty || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Make an error screen and reboot after 15 seconds if Mer is booted through normal bootmenu (check if /var/run is a symlink to /tmp/.run) || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Try to get various Python-based applets working for Mer || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Figure out how to make the theme switcher work. (It's a control panel applet), see libpersonalisation.so || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || docpurge should interact better with dpkg and upgrades || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Replacing SDK icons with more modern ones || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Modern kernels, get newer kernels working with the 770, N8x0, and use stlc45xx on N8x0s || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Make hildon-desktop-env use a configuration file to determine wether it needs to show cursor or not (useful for x86) || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Make kernel-diablo-modules-gserial and implement support with help of rescue menu || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Fix key generation of openssh-server so it doesn't do it on imager but does it when booting || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || File bug on 'recognize' vs ' 'recognise' in gtk20-l10n / en_US and such | none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Update debhelper in Mer Scratchbox SDK devkit || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Look into porting Powerlaunch or doing an alternative in Python || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Add FDI for Nokia keyboards (see [http://trac.tspre.org/svn/deblet/trunk/packages/main/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-keymap.fdi this] and [http://trac.tspre.org/svn/deblet/trunk/packages/main/nokia-xkb-data/ this] || none || 0% ||
|- style=""
| || Figure out why python-osso fails to build in SDK || none || 0% ||
|- style="background:LightBlue"
| 0.7 || Working X-terminal with hildon input method working || Stskeeps || 80% || Some vte patches still needed, but working: [http://bsd.tspre.org/~stskeeps/mer-ossoxterm.png screenshot]
|- style="background:LightBlue"
| 2008-15-12 - 0.7 || [[Mer/Tasks/Mer_Installer|Installer for Mer on Diablo]] || b-man || 90% || [http://trac.tspre.org/bman Initial versions]
|- style="background:LightBlue"
| December || [[Task:Community_firmware_image_distribution|Proposal for distribution of firmware images including closed-source bits needed for community editions]] || Stskeeps || 20% || First proposal involving initfs bits proposed through maemo-community. [http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-community/2009-January/002946.html Positive Nokia response]
|- style="background:LightBlue"
| 2009-01-17 || Move project from launchpad to maemo.org garage || Stskeeps || 40% || Project retrieved (mer.garage.maemo.org), [https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mer Mer on bugs.maemo.org]. Blockers: [https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3319&group_id=841&atid=3136 Multiple git repositories per project] [https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3320&group_id=841&atid=3136 Personal git repositories].
|- style="background:LightBlue"
| 2009-01-16 || nit-kernel-compat (support kernel booting rootfs directly), base on [http://guug.org/nit/nitboot/ nitboot]|| qwerty12 || 90% || In repository - needs testing
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| January || Missing localization strings in Hildon, (#4001) || Stskeeps || 100% || There are still some strings to be fixed. But that's for l10n people.
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-24 || Package up Droid Sans (apache license) || qwerty || 100% || was in ttf-droid in ubuntu universe
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-23 || Figure out how to make gnome-keyring invisible to the user || Stskeeps || 100% || Fixed in hildon-desktop-env
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2008-01-23 || Bring in new changes from http://gitweb.pingu.fi/?p=xf86-video-omapfb.git;a=summary to xserver-xorg-video-omapfb || Stskeeps || 100% || Now in repository
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 0.7 || [[#qemu-eabi_cputransp_for_Scratchbox|qemu-eabi cputransp for Scratchbox]]|| qwerty12 || 100% || Deb (i386) & source package [http://trac.tspre.org/qwerty12 provided here].
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 23-01-2008 || Package up advanced-power as a debian source package || qwerty12 || 100% || In repository.
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-20 || Fix sapwood crash problem on ARMv5t (bug 4023) || johnx, RST38h, r2d2rogers || 100% || Fixed in repository.
|- style="background:LightGreen"
| 2009-01-19 || Mer-ize hildon-application-manager || [[User:Jaffa|Jaffa]] || 100% || Screenshots: [http://www.flegg.org/~andrew/mer-ham-01.png 1], [http://www.flegg.org/~andrew/mer-ham-02.png 2], [http://www.flegg.org/~andrew/mer-ham-03.png 3]
|}

==== Bugs ====

Bug reports in bugzilla discovered through or related to Mer development in this sprint or outstanding still:

{{#bugzilla:id=4043,4039,4023,4001,3858,3939,3997,4016
|columns=id,severity,product,status,resolution,summary,to
}}