Comment 1 Andre Klapper 2008-08-25 13:56:13 UTC

Can you define "alarm" a bit better and describe some usecases? It makes it
easier to convince people...

I see, the name is not consistent in the documentation.
I'm not sure if other components are affected, but the alarm framework consists
of libalarm and alarmd at least.
http://maemo.org/development/documentation/how-tos/4-0-x/using_alarm_interface.html
http://maemo.org/api_refs/4.0/alarm-api/index.html

Comment 3 Eero Tamminen 2008-09-01 13:35:42 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you define "alarm" a bit better and describe some usecases?

Especially as I think that e.g. "cron" from Debian provides most of the alarm
functionality except the device wakeup when the device is powered off
(which should be uncommon use-case)...

That's true - atd can do the same job, but that's not my point. Developing
applications you want to use the same API on all devices. libalarm offers a
nice highlevel api independent from the machanism that is used, but the
motivation to use it is very limited since it is not portable in any way.

Comment 5 Quim Gil 2008-09-01 13:51:53 UTC

In principle the request sounds reasonable. I will organize a request
internally so at least we will know if there is any obstacle.

The first thing to do is define the package/s that belong to this framework and
need to be opensourced: libalarm and alarmd. Anything else?

From what I know only these two components are affected, but maybe these rely
on something that is not known publicly.

Comment 7 Quim Gil 2008-09-08 10:40:57 UTC

Just a note: I will work on this after the Maemo Summit.

As a followup to the discussions at Maemo Summit I have these additional
remarks:
- garage has a project 'alarmd'
- the project hasn't released any file
- trying to check out the sources returnes an error (403, forbidden)

So it seems the fact that alarm framework sources are not available is a bug
and was not intended.

Comment 9 Quim Gil 2008-10-04 18:47:04 UTC

David told me that the Alarm framework *is* open source. Apparently the sources
are lost/missing, though. 

Changing summary and reassigning to him.

Comment 10 David Weinehall 2008-10-06 09:22:25 UTC

At least intended to be, yes.

Comment 11 Andre Klapper 2008-11-22 02:54:05 UTC

David, any news here in making the code available to public?

Comment 12 Andre Klapper 2009-01-19 18:46:47 UTC

Any news in making the code of libalarm and alarmd available for public?

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/alarmd/ is still empty.

Comment 13 Andre Klapper 2009-03-03 10:34:48 UTC

Still nothing in https://garage.maemo.org/projects/alarmd/ .

http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo5.0alpha/free/a/alarmd/alarmd_1.0.11.tar.gz
exists (and .tar.gz also existed in Diablo).

I wonder if the existence of the tar archive would be sufficient to close the
bug. In fact I get a 404 error for this link. The direcory contains deb
packages only.

Comment 15 Quim Gil 2009-03-06 11:12:34 UTC

That tarball was pulled just because it had not a proper licensing text. We are
working (finally, trust me) on moving alarmd to open development and I expect
to have not only sources but also the code repository out before the Fremantle
beta (or at the same time, latest).

Comment 16 Andre Klapper 2009-04-09 16:56:16 UTC

(In reply to comment #15)
> I expect to have not only sources but also the code repository out before the 
> Fremantle beta (or at the same time, latest).

Just to warn you: According to the internal ticket things unexpectedly have
become more complicated, so this might not be ready for beta SDK ("to be
released between March-May" as per
http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle )

The garage svn is still closed, but source tarballs are currently available in
both beta & beta2 repositories, under LGPL 2.1.

Comment 18 Quim Gil 2009-09-21 08:49:53 UTC

It's coming... but the team is extremely busy with the Maemo 5 final release.

Just a quick follow up to this report after reading
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33653 and wondering about the source for
alarmd.

I can see a Debian source package now at this URL:

http://repository.maemo.org/pool/fremantle/free/a/alarmd/

The SVN repo @ https://garage.maemo.org/projects/alarmd/ is still not
accessible, though.

Comment 20 Andre Klapper 2009-11-09 15:30:31 UTC

alarmd-1.1.13 has now been copied to
https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/?root=dsm .

Comment 21 Andre Klapper 2010-01-14 12:27:55 UTC

The problem reported here should be fixed in the update released today for
public: The Maemo5 update version 2.2009.51-1 (also called "PR1.1" sometimes).
Please leave a comment if the problem is not fixed for you in this update
version.