[MeeGo-community] MeeGo Community Development: Apps, Surrounds and the Community OBS

[David Greaves]

On 16/03/11 21:30, quim.gil at nokia.com wrote:
> (((Pasting https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12805#c3 here t make sure it gets the attention)))
>
> What is the status of this? Is there any development happening? Anywhere
> visible?

There is some work on the OBS/BOSS side. It's not stunningly visible at the 
moment since we're mainly working on individual parts of it.

I'm working on repackaging BOSS to sort out some 'productisation' issues that 
we've identified having used it in anger inside Nokia. This should be done this 
week. (I literally just deployed it on a VM a few moments ago).

Improving the docs for all of this is part of the MeeGo integration project that 
the Nokia build/OBS infrastructure team (me, Aapi, Aleksi, Islam, Marko etc) are 
working on.

> Yesterday I had a short chat with lbt at #meego and I recommended to focus on a
> single use case:
>
> - User can download stable apps from apps.meego.com and install them in her
> MeeGo compatible device.

FWIW I'm going to make supporting this goal a personal objective since a fair 
bit of the things I'm working on will be used :)

I (and Niels of course) can work on getting the OBS projects setup and then get 
some automation working. Hopefully we can then work with a few application 
developers to run through the build process.

> Can you define the unavoidable required tasks to get this use case running and
> focus only on this until we have something working? Otherwise I fear not making
> it for the MeeGo 1.2 release, and this would be bad.

* OBS to build the apps (minor tweaking)
* BOSS to do some promotion automation (setup and small amount of work)
* Web UI to support user input (new task - however much of it is within the 
scope of the current Nokia team's productisation work)
* and of course http://apps-beta.meego.com/

> There hasn't been much visible progress since MeeGo 1.1 / Dublin and we need to
> make a radical change in just few weeks.
 >
> Hopefully I'm wrong and there is nothing to worry about.  :)

I think we need pushing.

David

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