Brainstorm 2010/Packages

Latest revision as of 15:50, 24 May 2010

This article is continued discussion from the Maemo brainstorm 2010
Please see the Brainstorm 2010 agenda for more.

What can be improved in the packaging & testing processes and interfaces for Maemo application developers?

Make it easy for developers to support older hardware (Naranek)
Align testing and publishing processes with MeeGo (Qgil)
- Solve main use-case of an application developer using the Qt SDK and OBS to go from source code to packages ready for Maemo 5, MeeGo (rpm) and Harmattan (deb)
Ensure that it's possible to build packages locally without having to go through OBS - need independence from builder for freedom (javispedro)
Provide automated hooks to a developer providing easy hints for improving packaging (eg. "We noticed you use *po files for Italian and German. The N900 currently also supports French, Spanish, <add official languages here>. You may want to actively use community resources like talk.maemo.org or transifex.net to add more languages to your project. More here: wiki-link") (benny1967)
Allow easy mirroring of package repository (ZogG, in this thread)

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 * Ensure that it's possible to build packages locally without having to go through OBS - need independence from builder for freedom (javispedro)
 * Provide automated hooks to a developer providing easy hints for improving packaging (eg. "We noticed you use *po files for Italian and German. The N900 currently also supports French, Spanish, <add official languages here>. You may want to actively use community resources like talk.maemo.org or transifex.net to add more languages to your project. More here: wiki-link") (benny1967)
+* Allow easy mirroring of package repository (ZogG, [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=53400 in this thread])