Mer/Sprints/0.11

Period: 16. March 2009 - 30 March 2009. Testing period: 30 March 2009 - 6 April 2009 Release

Contents

Tasks

Completed Good progress Just standing Some help needed! Really stuck/delayed Urgent for next release

Guide

  • If you want to take on a task, write your nickname in the task item (at the ?) contact the mentor of the task.
  • If you want something tested when the task is done, move the task to Component: Testing, tell the mentor of the testing component, and change Owner, Mentor

to "?, your nickname". You're now the mentor for the tester in this particular task.

  • If you want to propose a task, contact the mentor of the component
  • If you find a bug, report it on http://bugs.maemo.org in the Mer product.

Component: Documentation

Mentors:

  • None at the moment, ask Stskeeps

High-level goals for sprints 0.11 and 0.12:

  • Provide initial documentation for Nokia N8x0 installation, jffs2 and installer version with screenshots
  • Establish "initial" Mer developer documentation, linking to Maemo developer documentation and indicating sections which are still valid
  • Locate a mentor for this area
Committed & Target Task Owner, Mentor/Suggested by  % Highlights

Bug reports in bugzilla discovered through or related to development of this component in this sprint, please convert into tasks or refute bug.

no bugzilla tickets were found


Component: Builders and developer tools

Mentors:

  • None at the moment, ask Stskeeps

High-level goals for sprints 0.11 and 0.12:

  • Move infrastructure to maemo.org (repository, builder)
  • Provide builder for Mer/x86, Mer/armv5te and Mer/armv4t (lenny based) and release the software for it (SDK)
  • Locate a mentor for this area
Committed & Target Task Owner, Mentor/Suggested by  % Highlights
2009-03-16 Build a cross-compilation toolchain for Ubuntu Jaunty armel gcc+glibc and provide for Scratchbox zenvoid, Stskeeps 0% none
2009-03-16 Build a cross-compilation toolchain for Debian Lenny armel gcc+glibc and provide for Scratchbox zenvoid, Stskeeps 0% none
not yet Upgrade rootstrap for Mer/armv5te for Scratchbox Accelerator  ?, Stskeeps 0% none
not yet Provide rootstrap for Mer/armv4t for Scratchbox Accelerator  ?, Stskeeps 0% none
not yet Update debhelper in Mer Scratchbox SDK devkit  ?, Stskeeps 0%
2008-03-16 Investigate usage of OpenSUSE Build Service as builder and SDK ability lbt, Stskeeps 10% Meeting on #mer with OBS people
not yet Discuss with maemo.org their requirements for including Mer repository and builders  ?, Stskeeps 0% none
not yet Move repository.mer.tspre.org to maemo.org infrastructure  ?, Stskeeps 0% none
not yet Provide script for first x86 building, then sb-accelerated armv5te, and armv4t build, and then if fails, qemu build  ?, Stskeeps 0% none
2009-01-17 Move project from launchpad to maemo.org garage Stskeeps 40% Project retrieved (mer.garage.maemo.org),

Mer on bugs.maemo.org. Blockers:

Multiple git repositories per project

Personal git repositories.

Bug reports in bugzilla discovered through or related to development of this component in this sprint, please convert into tasks or refute bug.

no bugzilla tickets were found

Component: Ports and base system

Mentors:

  • None at the moment, ask Stskeeps

High level goals for sprints 0.11 and 0.12:

  • In addition to existing ports, provide Mer/armv4t (lenny based) image for [Neo Freerunner], and Mer/armv5te for ADP1
  • Provide battery reporting on Nokia N8x0(W) (optionally 770)
  • Provide accelerated X on Nokia 770 + Nokia N8x0(W), using Xomap
  • Locate a mentor for this area
Committed & Target Task Owner, Mentor/Suggested by  % Highlights
not yet Create imager scripts for Mer/armv4t (lenny based)  ?, Stskeeps 0% none
not yet Implement hald-addon-bme open source based on dummy BME and Mer/Documentation/BME_Protocol , see this for example daperl, Stskeeps 0%
not yet docpurge should interact better with dpkg and upgrades  ?, Stskeeps 0%
not yet set kernel.core-pattern to something sane consistent across platforms  ?, timeless 50% this sysctl conf file, needs packaging: mkdir -p /var/cores from postinst.
not yet Implement a libconic ICD dbus messages handler relaying to NetworkManager  ?, Stskeeps 0%
not yet Adapt imager scripts for Beagleboard to be using .scr like in http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu  ?, Stskeeps 0%
not yet Figure out why upstart from https://code.launchpad.net/~mer-committers/m-r/upstart fails to boot on armel  ?, Stskeeps 0%
not yet maemo-launcher should not execute from init.d  ?, Stskeeps 0%

Bug reports in bugzilla discovered through or related to development of this component in this sprint, please convert into tasks or refute bug.

no bugzilla tickets were found

Component: User interface (code)

Mentors:

  • None at the moment, ask Stskeeps

High level goals for sprints 0.11 and 0.12:

  • Provide resolution independent hildon desktop code and layout, accessible even on 320x240
  • Start building generic control panel applets for the Mer system
  • Locate a mentor for this area
Committed & Target Task Owner, Mentor/Suggested by  % Highlights
not yet package a tslib calibration tool for X or framebuffer? none, Stskeeps 0%
not yet home applets behave oddly when in non-800x480 none, Stskeeps 0%
not yet hildon-plugins-settings-cpa: creates duplicate application menu. none, Stskeeps 0%
not yet Patch libvte with further maemo changes (blinking interval, Enter, etc) none 0%
not yet Figure out why Hildon Input Method refuses to show when under Xomap  ?, Stskeeps 0% none
not yet Build qt4.5-hildon for armel  ?, Stskeeps 0% none
not yet Screen should not dim and turn off during first boot wizard  ?, Stskeeps 0% none
not yet Magic X menu stretches too far, before adding v ^ buttons.  ?, Stskeeps 0% none
not yet Magic X menu should have current app highlighted and in top of list  ?, Stskeeps 0% none

Bug reports in bugzilla discovered through or related to development of this component in this sprint, please convert into tasks or refute bug.

4062majorMerRESOLVEDFIXEDInstaller crashes when writing a bootmenu item in advanced-mode for external card.Carsten Munk

Component: User interface (artwork)

Mentors:

  • wazd

High level goals for sprints 0.11 and 0.12:

  • Provide a furry of themes, icons, backgrounds (in multiple resolutions) to make Mer look pretty.
Committed & Target Task Owner, Mentor/Suggested by  % Highlights
not yet Make replacement(s) for SDK icons (hildon-icons) none, wazd 0% none
not yet Finish icons for Magic X, Menu button, Applications menu and select-buttons for liberty-mer none, wazd 0% none
not yet Develop new themes based on -mer layout none, wazd 0% none

Bug reports in bugzilla discovered through or related to development of this component in this sprint, please convert into tasks or refute bug.

no bugzilla tickets were found

Component: User interface (localization)

Mentors:

  • None at the moment, ask Stskeeps

High level goals:

  • Locate a mentor for this area
  • Establish component activity.
Committed & Target Task Owner, Mentor/Suggested by  % Highlights
not yet Start localization project for Mer, using launchpad or other (we have .pos, but we need people and translations) none 0%
not yet Find and package l10n for osso-xterm  ?, Stskeeps 0% none
not yet look at timeless' enus stuff in extras none, timeless 0%

Bug reports in bugzilla discovered through or related to development of this component in this sprint, please convert into tasks or refute bug.

no bugzilla tickets were found

Component: Testing

Mentors:

  • None at the moment, ask Stskeeps

High level goals:

  • This is where all needed items to be tested are put.
  • Locate a mentor for this area


Committed & Target Task Owner, Mentor/Suggested by  % Highlights
not yet 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
2003-03-17 Hildon input method fails to manifest Stskeeps 95% Needs testing, fixed in hildon-input-method-framework=1:2.0.1-1mer2
2003-03-17 xkb-data seems to be included in debootstrap and cannot dist-upgrade to the correct one without forcing, killing N810 keymap  ?, Stskeeps 95% Fixed in imager, needs testing

Bug reports in bugzilla discovered through or related to development of this component in this sprint, please convert into tasks or refute bug.

no bugzilla tickets were found

Upstream

Bug reports in bugzilla discovered through or related to Mer development but not within Mer:

IDSeverityProductStatusResolutionSummary (9 tasks) Assignee
4178+majorDesktop platformRESOLVEDFIXEDhildon-input-method needs a finger keyboard exampleMurray Cumming
4101enhancementMerRESOLVEDWONTFIXzenity list should allow clicking in any column for radio and check listsCarsten Munk
4102normalMerRESOLVEDWONTFIX(dpkg?) error message shouldn't say "reached already"Carsten Munk
4111normalMerRESOLVEDWONTFIXinstall catalog details dialog is fatally modalCarsten Munk
3858+normalSystem softwareRESOLVEDFIXEDmaemo-launcher build-depends on libhildondesktop-dev, which in turn build-depends on maemo-launcher-devGuillem Jover
4148normalMerRESOLVEDWONTFIXalarmd should use '.' instead of 'source' in '/bin/sh' scriptsCarsten Munk
4023+criticalDesktop platformRESOLVEDWONTFIXSapwood doesn't align PixbufOpenRequest properly (crash on 770)Sven Herzberg
3939+normalDesktop platformRESOLVEDWONTFIXsapwood loops infinitely at malformed requestunassigned
4043+enhancementSettings and MaintenanceRESOLVEDFIXEDApplication Manager should not depend on "user" accountunassigned