Mer/Sprints/0.9

Period: 16 February 2009 - 2 March 2009 Release

Tasks

Completed

Good progress

Just standing

Some help needed!

Urgent for next release

Committed & Target	Task	Owner	%	Highlights
	set kernel.core-pattern to something sane consistent across platforms	none	50%	[http://webwizardry.net/~timeless/10-coredumps.conf this sysctl conf file], needs packaging: mkdir -p /var/cores from postinst.
	Include hildon-theme-layout-4-synth (alter to use proper fallback icon theme) and tritanium, meta, okuda, kobayashi from extras-devel	none	10%	hildon-theme-layout-4-synth now in repository (Stskeeps). Themes seem to depend on maemo4-theme-fixes??
	Look into porting Powerlaunch or doing an alternative in Python	VDVsx	5%	Starting
	package a tslib calibration tool for X or framebuffer?	none	0%
	home applets behave oddly when in non-800x480	none	0%
	Port gdm-autologin from deblet and use /etc/default/autologin	none	0%
	look at timeless' enus stuff	none	0%
	770 wifi module patches to support WPA, IW wireless extensions	none	0%
	Use lp:~mer-committers/m-r/hildon-input-method & lp:~mer-committers/m-r/hildon-input-method-framework and see if you can get them to work (Fremantle versions)	none	0%
	Implement hald-addon-bme open source based on dummy BME and Mer/Documentation/BME_Protocol , see this for example	none	0%
	Implement a libconic ICD dbus messages handler relaying to NetworkManager	none	0%
	QEMU/N8x0 image of Mer	none	0%
	Start localization project for Mer, using launchpad (we have .pos, but we need people and translations)	none	0%
	get a run-standalone.sh like thing	none	0%
	Fix C++ in SDK (see straightjacket packages)	none	0%
	Rotation shouldn't crash X?	none	0%
	Fix rootstrap for SB to be more recent (libkrb depends on libc6 >= 2.9 at the moment)	none	0%
	Try to get various Python-based applets working for Mer	none	0%
	docpurge should interact better with dpkg and upgrades	none	0%
	Replacing SDK icons with more modern ones	none	0%
	Modern kernels, get newer kernels working with the 770, N8x0, and use stlc45xx on N8x0s	none	0%
	Make kernel-diablo-modules-gserial and implement support with help of rescue menu	none	0%
	Find better solution for APT not working on jffs2: http://glomation.net/smf/index.php?topic=5.0	none	0%
	Update debhelper in Mer Scratchbox SDK devkit	none	0%
	hildon-plugins-settings-cpa: creates duplicate application menu.	none	0%
	Figure out why python-osso fails to build in SDK	none	0%
	Patch libvte with further maemo changes (blinking interval, Enter, etc)	none	0%
	Make 770 image not have kernel-diablo-modules and such	none	30%	found a kernel-diablo-modules in foundations/mer, might have done something..
	Add FDI for Nokia keyboards (see this and this	Darken	80%	Check this [1] - Added keycode problem fix in xserver-xorg-input-evdev, now in repository. Patched repository actually. Needs testing.
	Make hildon-desktop-env use a configuration file to determine wether it needs to show cursor or not (useful for x86)	johnx	95%	Could use some testing on x86s with touchscreens
December	Proposal for distribution of firmware images including closed-source bits needed for community editions	Stskeeps	50%	First proposal involving initfs bits proposed through maemo-community. Positive Nokia response wish list for 3rd party components
2009-01-17	Move project from launchpad to maemo.org garage	Stskeeps	40%	Project retrieved (mer.garage.maemo.org), Mer on bugs.maemo.org. Blockers: Multiple git repositories per project Personal git repositories.

Bugs

Bug reports in bugzilla discovered through or related to Mer development in this sprint or outstanding still:

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Released files and guides

Disclaimer:

• There is -no- warranty. This may blow up your MMC, steal your wife or cause doomsday to come around. But if you find some bugs, please report them on bugs.maemo.org and we'll try to see what we can do to fix the bug causing it.
• If anything goes wrong, grab a USB cable, and rescue mode is done through holding down Home key when booting Mer (on tablets)

MD5sums

0772b1e9696abfa3385f225d7c22cecb mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.img.raw.gz d88403e0aef6a9a0e14fbdcc7d848565 mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.tar.gz 63e824cd3cab12e6c5088df3a11d6e2b mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.vmdk.zip

0772b1e9696abfa3385f225d7c22cecb	mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.img.raw.gz
d88403e0aef6a9a0e14fbdcc7d848565	mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.tar.gz
63e824cd3cab12e6c5088df3a11d6e2b	mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.vmdk.zip

Generic x86 - VMDK (VMware disk image)

• Generic X86 bootable VMDK image - root password is 'rootme'

Installation in VirtualBox

1. Unzip zip file
2. Open VirtualBox, create new machine (click *New*):
   • Name: Mer 0.8
   • OS type: Linux
   • Version: Ubuntu
   • RAM: 128 at least.
   • Disk: click "existing", find the mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.vmdk file, select, select
   • Next
   • Finish.

Generic x86 - RAW image

• Generic X86 RAW gzipped image - usable in virtual machine products such as Parallels and such supporting RAW disk images (gunzip first).

Generic x86 - tar.gz image

• Generic X86 tar.gz rootfs image. Usable both for chroot and actually installing on a machine.

Installation (chroot)

mkdir mer-0.8
cd mer-0.8 && sudo tar xzf mer-x86-generic-image-v0.8.tar.gz
sudo mkdir -p tmp/.X11-unix home/$USER/.osso
sudo mv usr/bin/maemo-invoker usr/bin/maemo-invoker.real
echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nPROG="$1"\nshift\nexec "$PROG" "$@"' | sudo tee usr/bin/maemo-invoker
sudo chmod 755 usr/bin/maemo-invoker
echo 'nameserver <mynameresolver>' | sudo tee -a etc/resolv.conf

Start-up (from within mer-0.8 directory)

Xephyr :2 -host-cursor -screen 800x480x16 -dpi 96 -ac -extension Composite 2>/dev/null 1>&2 &
sudo mount --bind /tmp/.X11-unix tmp/.X11-unix
sudo mount --bind /dev/pts dev/pts
sudo mount -t proc proc proc
sudo mount -t sysfs sysfs sys
sudo chroot .
export DISPLAY=:2.0
/etc/init.d/dbus start
start-hildon

Installation (machine)

See Mer/Documentation/Making_x86_Mer_Bootable