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Marcel tanuva at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 7 20:28:01 CEST 2009


Am Tuesday 07 April 2009 20:14:18 schrieb Steve Mosher:
> Fernando Martins wrote:
> > Steve Mosher wrote:
> >> And you are right the community can help:
> >>  1. get code upstream. That decreases our cost to maintain.
> >>  2. Stay involved or get involved, either by coding, testing, or
> >>     spreading the word.
> >>  you get the idea.
> >
> > My biggest itch was the frustration of getting a phone which, at that
> > time, was not yet, say, a smooth phone, and still today has some rough
> > edges, depending on distribution of course. I think this common
> > experience is now acknowledged as what is hurting more the FR (leading
> > to the slashdot post, but I'm also sure it can succeed and your recent
> > posts are very convincing to me)
> >
> > Although I'm a programmer (C, Python), right now I can only spare a few
> > hours a week which makes it difficult for me to be effective. Any
> > suggestion how to best put my small resources at use? How much
> > investment would it be needed to work on phone specific functions? I
> > know this is the bazaar, but I miss a bit the cathedral to be more
> > focused and effective. A todo list, who's doing what, change logs,...
> > What's the status of FSO?? Maybe I have to explore better but there is a
> > lot of info how there, spread all over, and too often not up to date.
> > Working on documentation is also fine for me, but what is the most
> > needed to choose from?
>
>   What I would do is get in contact with the folks working on a specific
> distribution ( SHR for example) or specific piece of infrastructure
> Paroli, tichey,FSO, kernel and ask them these questions. The lack of a
> "todo" list and the lack of focused development has also been a
> frustration for me. It means development happens like an untended garden
> grows. But look what grew that we never imagined.

What would be useful and what even non-coders can (partially) do: Updating and 
editing wiki pages to reflect the most recent development.

--
Marcel




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