om2009/paroli status

[Sebastian Krzyszkowiak]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 04:11, Nicola Mfb<nicola.mfb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Risto H. Kurppa<risto at kurppa.fi> wrote:
> [...]
>> r - someone unhappy feeling that no-one is working on Paroli or
>> bugfixing it.. I actually tried Zhone the other day (when Paroli or
>> FSO failed to delete SMS's from the SIM) and was very pleased with it
>> - I'd really like to see it developed further!
>
> Hi Risto,
>
> If I remember well Mickey announced that zhone will not get anymore
> improvements and the one in fso 5.5 is basically the same of 5.1 :(. I
> suppose that FSO/SHR joint will mean that while FSO will be improved
> and extended SHR applications will be the natural candidate for their
> testing and reference implementation. As there is a distro based on
> zhone I do not know if at least their guys will improve it.
>
> The problem is that SHR promised on late 2008 a stable milestone,
> after that it was forgotten, they promised again on 22 may 2009, a lot
> of unstable to test fork where done and abandoned. Finally I just
> realized that it's a real nice hacking distro with tons of bleeding
> edge and regular breaking updates and there is no real interesting on
> stabilize it. I do not want to hurt anyone is only my opinion.
>
> With om2009 release plan I just thought: SHR has no man power or will
> to maintain two different branch, the stable and the developing at
> least now, the same for OM guys with OM2009, but I'm lucky and I may
> have OM2009 on the flash to have a stable working device, and shr on
> the SD to test and enjoy bleeding edge.
>
> I'm really afraid of all the shots that our device is taking while I
> think that the community is completely unorganized and the term
> "community driven" completely abused.
>
> m2c
>
>    Nicola

We just don't want to release crap as "stable". There were problems
with either FSO, SHR, build system etc. We wanted to start releasing
testing images regular every week... week ago. But there is opkg
problem, which is preventing us from doing that. Do you really want
buggy and unstable system marked as "stable", only due to deadline?

And "unstable" is bleeding-edge. As it should be.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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