[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Building maemo from cvs

[From: Carlos.Guerreiro at nokia.com]

Hi,

> On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 20:34 +0300, Carlos.Guerreiro at nokia.com wrote:
> > Yup. We've been little by little moving components to open
> > development in the stage svn but still not everything required
> > to build Maemo (or even the HAF) from source (at the most
> > current releases) is available. There's still some way to go.
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Could we have at least the names of these software modules, please?

Have a look here:
https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/hafbuildbot/sources
This is the file that drives the build bot I'm playing with.
We'll be keeping it up to date until we have something better.
I'll try to blog about this today.

> 
> For the modules that are in the public svn, those are all totally
> up-to-date, right? For instance, there's not some secret copy of
> hildon-libs with extra changes?
Yes they are up-to-date There are no secret copies.

> 
> [snip]
> 
> I started a little release planning page, as something to inform the
> public development community:
> http://maemo.org/maemowiki/MaemoModules
> 
> It would be nice to see it gradually expanded with 
> - A correct list of modules, with descriptions of those modules.
> - Information about approximate development plans and 
> scheduled freezes.

That's a good start :-)

> 
> I can imagine that you don't want to say everything because 
> it gives too
> many clues about product features and launch dates, but 
> there's probably
> a lot that you can say, and it might be acceptable to be very
> approximate about dates.

Yes, there's some of those concerns. However, most of these components
don't carry big secrets, and we're looking at releasing Maemo more
frequently than the products. The biggest constrain is quite simple.
Prioritization of limited resources ;-)
Expect things to happen and to move in the right direction, but to
take time.

> As well as helping developers and consumers of Maemo to adapt their
> plans, this will help us to anticipate the priorities and 
> stress levels
> of Maemo developers at various times.
>  

Yup.

Br,
Carlos