On Saturday 03 May 2008 20:25:00 hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Fopr the sake of argument, let's suppose I'm convinced. Now comes the > question of what I can do to join the project in orger to develop the > todo list. > > I regularly use two machines -- a 32-bit Debian Lenny, and a 64-but > Debian etch. No, make that three machines -- I have an n800 > with OS2007. I haven't upgraded to 2008 for two reasons: (1) > inertia and (2) I've heard a lot of complaints about 2008. You need to be able to do development and testing for the systems you are targetting (IT2007 is fine, although being able to also boot into IT2008 for testing would be an advantage in case there are bugs which only show up on that platform -- the Hildon widgets are different). To develop for the Internet Tablet you would need to install the scratchbox-based Maemo SDK. The SDK is easy to install and run on 32-bit Lenny (that is my main development environment). It is hard to make it work on 64-bit Debian (or on Etch) but there is also a VMware appliance which may work in those environments. > Presumably I have to install development software that's > specific to Debian and to the n800, as well as relevant versioning > system(s). What do I need? How do I get started with it? Do I need to > convince anyone that my ideas (such as nonautomatic task ordering) are > worthwhile? To work on GPE you will need SVN installed. You would definitely want to subscribe to the GPE mailing list -- where people will be happy to help you with the process of getting started. You don't have to get any sort of permission to start making changes and submitting patches to the mailing list (as with most open source projects that is the usual way to start contributing -- once people see you are doing good work you may be offered direct update access to the SVN repository). In principle, you might need to convince Florian (the GPE project leader) your ideas are worthwhile for him to be willing to accept your patches. In practice I can't see anyone complaining about the manual task ordering idea -- it sounds like a good idea to me. The most likely problem is that GPE actually runs on many different platforms and any patches must not break the other platforms (sometimes a new feature might not work on other platforms but the code should still build and the old behaviour work). But people on the list or reviewing and testing your patches can help with that. Maemo-users is probably not the right place to go into any more detail. If you are interested in contributing to the project please either contact me off list (I would be happy to supply much more information and pointers to things like the SDK and the GPE mailing list) or just join the GPE mailing list and introduce yourself there. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
