User:Stskeeps/Draft Mer Blueprint
The Mer platform is a Linux distribution for mobile devices based on the Maemo platform from Nokia. Mer goals include:
- Improving and developing parts of Maemo that are of interest to the Maemo community.
- Making it easier to port existing desktop applications by hildonizing and adjusting them to the tablet form factor.
- Encouraging third party experimentation and development.
- Supporting tablet hardware no longer receiving updated OS software by Nokia.
- Making Maemo a generic platform for all tablet devices, including non-Nokia ones.
- Focusing Maemo community efforts in platform-related areas
Mer platform development will be done in the open, with public SCM repository, bugtrackers, and Wiki-based blueprint discussion.
We should stop seeing the tablets as strictly under-powered embedded systems, and see them for what they really are: powerful, power-efficient, economical handheld computers.
Historically, the Mer platform came from a discussion on reconstructing Maemo and a desire to make a proof of concept system of the thoughts in this proposal (M-R PoC), which developed into Mer after realization that it was a viable direction of development.
Sprints
Sprint January 2008 and before: Basic installable image
The purpose of this milestone:
- To provide a basic installable image, both through installer and through flashing, for N8x0 tablets.
- The image must include a basic user interface and ability to connect to Wi-Fi networks.
- To provide a installer and image for 770 tablets.
- To provide initial developer tools so we can start developing for the tablets.
- Prepare for next milestone in terms of collaborative technologies.
If you have a task that needs to be done to fullfill the purposes of this milestone, add it to the table below, set it to 'Just standing' status, and with no commit date and owner.
If you want to take on a task, set the initial commit date, your nickname, and update your progress as you go, and update highlights of your work (including what gets added) as you work on it.
| Completed | Good progress | Just standing | Some help needed! | Really stuck/delayed |
| Committed | Task | Owner | % | Highlights |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-08-12 | Better organization of bugs.maemo.org components: Sort out last unclear issues, come up with implementation plan | Andre | 70% | Draft available at Talk:Task:Getting Nokia involved in bugs.maemo.org#Draft_structure, implementation planned for Saturday 6 of December |