Open development/Maemo roadmap/Fremantle

Information announced about the Fremantle roadmap:

New to Maemo:

• OMAP3 support
• HSPA/3G support
• High definition camera support
• OpenGL ES
• Clutter
• Meta Tracker
• PulseAudio
• GUPnP
• OHM
• upstart
• A2DP & AVRCP support
• OpenMAX

Remarkable updates:

• GTK+ 2.12
• Farsight2

More explained at http://flors.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/osim-world-maemo-devsesh-slides/ (relevant content needs to be moved here).

Initial list of packages planned for the Fremantle SDK alpha.

Timeline

This is a timeline based on known events and announcements. Many dates are quite flexible at this point.

• First Alpha SDK, first report on API changes and beginning of weekly releases. Suitable for platform development only. December 2008.
• Mature alpha SDK with application framework and API freeze available around January-February 2009.
• FOSDEM in February. Proposal for a Maemo developer gathering with a set of goals.
• Bossa conference in March. Proposal for a Maemo developer gathering with a set of goals.
• Beta SDK released between March-May, ready for application development including support for Mozilla based browser and Greasemonkey add-ons.
• Qt 4.4 "garage" support and Theme Maker by Urho Konttori planned to be ready by the beta SDK release.
• Final release when ready.  :)

Feature requests implemented

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