[maemo-developers] new contributors: maemo5 testing, extras repository etc.

[From: Dieter Plaetinck]

On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:01:25 +0300
daniel wilms <daniel.wilms at nokia.com> wrote:

> Hi Dieter,
> > I'm still having some problems with pushing my code to the online git clone (http://sprunge.us/JhDZ) (same with GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=1),but once I've succeeded that I'm wondering:
> >   
> You could give some further information about the problems you have, 
> perhaps we could help out a bit.
That's okay. It's already fixed

> > 1) how do I test my code on maemo5 ? I think I saw i mail about that on this list but couldn't find it back in the archives.  IIRC the conclusion was "you pretty much can't .. yet"
> >   
> You can install the Scratchbox and test it there. All information about 
> the development environment you will find here [1]. Further you could 
> put it into extras-devel, and people internally can test it on the 
> device and can give feedback. [2] First place for the feedback should be 
> the tracker in garage or in the next step it is possible to think about 
> adding it in the bugzilla [3].
> 
> Further a good place for developers is their category in maemo wiki. [4]
> 
> [1] http://maemo.org/development/sdks/maemo_5_beta_2_sdk/
> [2]  http://wiki.maemo.org/Uploading_to_Extras
> [3] http://wiki.maemo.org/Category:Development
> [4] http://wiki.maemo.org/Bugs:Adding_Extra_products
> 
> Hope this helps,
> cheers Daniel
> 
> 

Thanks.  I'm installing the scratchbox as we speak.
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Development_Environment/Maemo_SDK is an interesting page i hadn't found before.

Dieter