Community SSU/QA

Set of notes and action points from the discussions about Community SSU on #maemo-ssu freenode

Main participants

  • lcuk
  • MohammadAG
  • Jaffa
  • Venemo
  • lma
  • x-fade
  • rst38h
  • crashanddie

and more


Contents

Discussion topics

  • finding source locations and identifying GOOD patches
  • submitting potential patches to a central testing source
  • making a new mp-generic* meta package
  • discussing with lma about current n8x0 community ssu problems and workarounds and insight
  • looking into getting the wiki sorted
    • need wiki editor :P
  • looking at how to manage the patchsets
    • we know the N900 Fremantle system works well using git tags
    • the 8x0 patchset currently contains 10 local based quilts


Build Sources

We must gather together and list the main giturl sources and tags used to build from.

for instance: http://gitorious.org/modest/modest tag 3.4.8

This allows us to reproduce builds and get source to the same location we build from. 

<lcuk> how many packages for n8x0 are you looking at including in an ssu?
<lcuk> and how have you considered looking at updating the system so far - you said its all manual at the moment
<lma> I have 10 (source) packages at the moment
<lcuk> do you mind listing them 
<lma> busybox dnsmasq loudmouth modest osso-pdf-viewer osso-software-version tinymail community-ssu-enabler xorg-server kernel-diablo

This has started at http://gitorious.org/community-ssu, but needs completing with things like Modest.

Process

As started being discussed on talk.maemo.org:

  1. Who ultimately owns the CSSU?
    • Council?
  2. How will included improvements be decided?
    • Will there be an inclusive policy - every improvement that someone is willing to work on will be included - or will there be a gatekeeper that will decide what to include?
    • Is the scope limited to improving packages which are included by Nokia in the OS; or should it grow to include "useful" stuff?
    • Should wholesale replacement of apps (such as Media Player) be done with open source, feature- & UI-compatible versions; if available?
  3. How will testing be organised?
    • Positive
    • Negative
    • Regression
    • Installation from scratch
    • Upgrade from previous version
  4. How will it be advertised?
  5. How will it be supported?
    • Bugzilla
    • IRC?
    • Forum

Technical

  1. How to work out value of Maemo-Required-Free-Space header in mp-fremantle-community-pr?
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