Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

I'm trying to spice up a blog post I'm about to write with faint memories from earlier days (à la "this is not the first time such a close collaboration happens..."), but I can't find my faint memories. ;)

IIRC, in the past there were one or two solutions/patches/ideas that or came from community members but were eventually adopted by Nokia as part of the Maemo system. I'm almost sure I read about this in bugzilla or here in the forum... but I cannot remember at all what projects and how and which version of Maemo it was etc.

Anybody with a younger brain help me? ;)
It would be enough to throw parts of your faint memories at me, maybe if I just get together enough keywords I can actually start to search. ;)

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

Jaffa's patch to Hildon Application Manager replacing the long list of category buttons with a proper grid view was included in Diablo if I remember correctly.

Unfortunately, they did not include our patch to remove the legalese when installing something... I wonder why. ;)

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

Virtual memory swap on a MMC or internal flash device.

http://armin-warda.de/slide-14.png

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

aaahhh - beautiful example. thx!

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

not sure... there's no grid on my n810, just a list of buttons with category names.

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

Indeed, however it was in Maemo 5's 1.2009.42-11. They just never released an update to HAM after my patch.

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

Oh - one of the things they fixed in Diablo but never released for that platform. Interesting to know.

So it does count, too. Thank you. Guess that's what I need then, shouldn't be more than a side note. ;)

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

WiFi memory corruption (bug #2006) - fix and patch provided by the community, don't think it was ever released by Nokia though.

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

There was another HAM patch by me which was merged (and, AFAICT, shipped) of no benefit to Maemo, but lots of benefit to Mer (i.e. it removed a whole lot of /home/user hardcoding).

Merging something which doesn't even benefit your own product, for Nokia, is impressive.

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

I'd like to point you to a great place for getting patches accepted. If you can reduce a developer's work in adding a patch, the better - Do it through maemo.gitorious.org 's merge requests.

Lately, javispedro's patch for inverted colors was added:

http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle..._requests/2248

And my patch for ARMv4t support/non-VFP support(!) in libosso: http://maemo.gitorious.org/fremantle..._requests/2249

Bootmenu hook in getbootstate

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

Also, didn't things from ssvb/serge/Siarhei Siamashka go into Xomap before he got hired by Nokia?

Fanoush's bootmenu was on stage.maemo.org SVN at some point too, used in Sardine? (not sure)

Another interesting thing to look into, how many community members turned into Nokia employees or subcontractors.

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

I don't know if this qualifies, but I remember at some time someone fixed the App Manager so when you added a program, it didn't start you over at the beginning again to find the next program you wanted to add. You kept your place after the list of apps refreshed.

Unfortunately, in the current App Manager it appears to have reverted to its original behavior, so unless you know the exact name of apps you want to add (difficult if you are looking thru the list for programs you might want to add) every time you install one, you have to start over to find the next one.

I hope this is clear! I tried...

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

Probably more than there have been patches accepted. :\

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

This has been fixed in PR 1.1's Hildon Application Manager. Fixed by, I believe, a Nokian or an employee of one of its subcontractors - not sure which, but the log on maemo.gitorious.org listing the commits would probably tell you who.

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

... wasn't the N800's FM radio receiver "easter egg" discovered by a user?

Re: Help me remember: Which community projects/patches did Nokia include in earlier Maemo versions?
 

Yes, then Nokia shipped software to support it.