Thread: The in-development Maemo 5 Community SSU
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gazza_d is offline gazza_d
2011-01-18 , 12:40
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#39
Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
As you'll know that a lot of discussion happened in the thread "Fremantle Community SSU" on maemo-developers (a better home for in-depth technical discussion about the vagaries of HAM), which you participated in. Many of your questions then were about policy - and, as stated above, this hasn't yet been discussed (let alone decided).

OTTOMH, some of the big policy questions to be decided are:
  1. Who ultimately owns the CSSU?
    • Council?
  2. How will included improvements be decided? (Matan)
    • Will there be an inclusive policy - every improvement that someone is willing to work on will be included - or will there be a gatekeeper that will decide what to include? (Matan)
    • Is the scope limited to improving packages which are included by Nokia in the OS; or should it grow to include "useful" stuff?
    • Should wholesale replacement of apps (such as Media Player) be done with open source, feature- & UI-compatible versions; if available?
  3. How will testing be organised?
    • Positive
    • Negative
    • Regression
    • Installation from scratch
    • Upgrade from previous version
  4. How will it be advertised?
  5. How will it be supported?
    • Bugzilla
    • IRC?
    • Forum
In my opinion....

1. The CSSU should be owned and steered by the council, for the good of the community.

2. Improvements should be limited to bugfixes, and improvements to the core OS. I think either seperate packages should be created for replacement of core apps, or a metapackage which will offer the ability to install apps such as MAG's portrait varients, and the new QT media player. A good example of how this could be implemented is the Maemodder package, which lets you pick and easily install common mods via GUI, and allows regression. An alternative for OS alternatives may be as a distinct section within the Repos, and to prefix the packages appropriately so "upgrades/replacements" can be easily found.

3. Testing - should be as an upgrade from PR1.3, with regression back to it on removal. Testing should also be limited to the specific fixes/enchancements which have been changed, otherwise it'll take ages.

4. Should be advertised by forum initially for keen/adventurous/power users, and then barring any major issues, be advertised heavily on the seperate sections of maemo.org including MWN.

5. Official support should be via bugzilla for confirmed issues, There will be forum threads regarding any CSSU anyway.
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