<div dir="ltr">You need to take into account that this is just a milestone release, a snapshot of the current progress of the ASU development. It is *NOT* a final release in any way, shape or form. If you read the announcement by William Lai he lists:<br>
<br>"- A stable and working phone stack realized by using Qtopia.<br>
- A new and flexible window manager [Illume] that broadens our support<br>
for the different graphic libraries, including GTK+ and more.<br>
- The whole system software has been reworked which leads to a very fast<br>
and reliable suspend & resume, LED control and power management.<br>
- A graphical frontend [Installer] for package management as installing,<br>
removing or updating applications via repositories.<br>
- Also included is an application which combines GPS and SMS [Locations]<br>
for easy sharing of locations among friends."<br><br>I would say it does meet all of those points. <br><br>What is it not, is a final phone distribution that is completely finished. This is only the first of many milestones before any type of final release.<br>
<br>-Jacob<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Bumbl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bumbl3x3@gmail.com" target="_blank">bumbl3x3@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
As it seems they have the contrary.<br>
They have a leader which seems to dictate everything without<br>
accepting ideas from the developers or the community.<br>
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Dimitri wrote:<br>
> It's hard to argue with your points, since the phone STILL can't connect to<br>
> the internet *out-of-the-box*.<br>
><br>
> (Who wants to manually hack a dozen files, or install some guy's<br>
> half-working gui posted on some blog that requires google-translate to<br>
> read?)<br>
><br>
> Why the developers are spending time breaking things that were previously<br>
> worked (see ASU keyboard), rather than fixing what's broken and in desperate<br>
> need of fixing, is beyond me.<br>
><br>
> Is it a lack of leadership? For this aggressive undertaking to be<br>
> successful, it needs at least one person to prioritize, delegate, and lead<br>
> the other developers.<br>
><br>
> Is there such a person at Openmoko? If not, that's the problem. Having a<br>
> team of developers, without clear leadership, is akin to herding cats :)<br>
><br>
> D<br>
><br>
><br>
> ted braak wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I have real doubts about the some Quality Assurance aspects of this team.<br>
>> Also I don't see real dedication and vision to get rid of bugs and produce<br>
>> something stable and usable. It looks like there is more effort in<br>
>> bringing us bling.<br>
>> I think bling is something that can be created by the community itself.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
<br>
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