<div dir="ltr">2008/10/5 Steve Mosher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@openmoko.com">steve@openmoko.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Nope. nobody signed up.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Hi Steve,<br>I think it's not easy to involve the community in a specific task as bug fixing.<br><br>According to me:<br>* this requires high knowledge and systematic approach, so only a part of community may be affected<br>
* too many peoples thinks they already paid for a phone and the paid openmoko developers should fix bugs (I do not think this!!!)<br>* there is a lack of information about future direction of the software stack<br>* community peoples hacks openmoko for fun, so they want to spend their time following their needs, passions and capabilities.<br>
<br>I report an example about me, I'm not a kernel guru, so I'll never take a bug on suspend/resume and I'll not take a bug about qtopia on x11, as I think it will not be used in the future, so why should I waste my time?<br>
At the same time I like to develop with C++ and QT library, and the big part of time spent on openmoko goes there. So you may find a lot of my threads in this mailing-list about Qt, related bugs openened on the issue tracker here, at openembedded and trolltech, a wiki page to help/be helped from other peoples about qt developing etc. etc. I'm planning to write a qt application to test dbus api on FSO, and as I need pan network over bluetooth that will be my first try. As it seems there is nothing available when ready I'll be happy to share it!<br>
Only a part of problems i solved are available on mailing lists archives or on the wiki due to lack of time.<br><br>Consider now that a lot of peoples acts in a similiar manner, so a lot of excited guys are working "randomly" on somethink, someone is able to use python/gtk, someone is a distro guru etc. etc., they love to fix their own problems and write their scripts that often will be never shared, becouse they do not know that a lot of peoples may need it!!!<br>
<br>So it should be easier to involve community in a "application wish list", in a "how-to/documentation wish list" and in a "test suite".<br>These are simple and fun tasks.<br><br>Regards<br>
<br> Nicola<br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div>