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At last! I’m happy to report that I merged the MTP backend to gvfs master yesterday. It’ll show up in the upcoming 1.15.2 release, and for Ubuntu users, I’ve updated my PPA to include builds for Precise, Quantal and Raring.
Enjoy!
Dear Jolla,
Thank you for your response to our Open Letter. As you can see from the community conversation regarding your response — here, as well as various social media circles — most of our members want more. The Hildon Foundation appreciate the invitation to become “true pioneers,” but in all honesty, the Maemo community has been a true pioneer for many years now as a unique open source initiative combining developers and users with a community repository of applications and platform components.
This being said, we understand that Jolla is a future that we would like to help make successful if possible. Currently, neither Jolla nor any Jolla affiliates affiliates (Mer, Nemo, Sailfish OS, etc.) have any sort of “community,” user base, or public space for communication to speak of. These assets can be extended if, for example, you are interested in a community repository, cross-platform development, or helping developers migrate to Sailfish. We had already intended to provide a public space for Jolla/Nemo/Sailfish and will continue to do so regardless. Would Jolla like to help with any of these efforts that will benefit Jolla?
We thank you for indicating on our website that Jolla agrees to support a Sailfish on N900 project. Of course, our community contains the world’s most knowledgeable developers on the N900 device. We would promote and host the project in a variety of ways to leverage our existing expertise and bring in new participants.
What type of support and/or cooperation does Jolla envision providing?
Thank you,
The Hildon Foundation
We had another daughter. I'm mostly busy with family projects and personal software projects are mostly related to GStreamer nowadays.
I'm sorry but links to nethack and tuner tool were lost when I've I changed the ISP provider and forgot about it for too long.
Now I've moved nethack port source code to FDO and uploaded a new build OS2008 to my dropbox account . I've added the "twoweapons" menu entry in the Apparel menu which was a missing feature and also changed the map background to just solid black.
The tuner tool was already in the maemo garage and I've just updated the links to there.
Hi everyone,
Happy New Year! And the new year brings new updates on the gvfs MTP front. I received a bunch of useful feedback from the gvfs maintainers last month, which I was finally able to get time to sit down and address over the last few days. Accordingly, I’ve made a series of updates that fix a variety of things, from small memory leaks all the way to, finally, implementing the right way to tell Nautilus to do directory downloads/uploads in the right way (You’ve got to return a specific error code) – which fixes the one remaining functional gap in the code. Uploading a directory is still not fully working as I need to handle the way Nautilus ends up referring to uploaded directories by name when trying to upload their contents. Right now there’s no logic to remap the name to the MTP entity ID so the file uploads fail, but I know what has to be done.
I think we’re nearing the finish line, with respect to getting this merged upstream. *phew*
As always, the easiest way to try the code out is to install the packages from my PPA. I have also put a build of libmtp 1.1.5 in there so that unlock events and thumbnails work out of the box too.
Enjoy!
Happy New Year Maemo Community!
As we move into the new year, we’re also faced with a very new phase of life — that is, complete control of the maemo.org infrastructure, meaning community governance of the Maemo Community and everything that it implies (community servers and software repositories, various maemo-related software and technology, the talk.maemo.org forum and wiki, etc.). It’s a lot to fathom, but we are certain that if any community can handle it, this one can.
gPodder 3.4.0 running on MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan (N9)
As always, updated packages will be available via Nokia Store once the QA process has finished. As there have been problems with apps.formeego.org recently (3.3.0 isn't even out of the staging area yet, after 3 months), we now provide a package of gPodder for MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan on gpodder.org/downloads for those who want to avoid or can't use Nokia Store (you have to enable packages from unknown sources, and you might have to uninstall the previous version if it came from Nokia Store or Apps For MeeGo due to the Aegis security policy). The source and packaging is available in the "harmattan" branch in Git, as has always been the case.I hope you like the new UI changes. If you are missing the feed update button in the lower left corner, try "pull to refresh" on the podcast list (this avoids accidental updates when pressing the back button twice). I'd like to create a nicer "pull to refresh" implementation, but the limitations of Qt 4's QML Flickable prevent me from creating a better one (if you have a better implementation than gPodder's PullDownHandle, I'd love to hear from you). Scrolling the episode list should now also be faster (than before), and some unnecessary animations were removed in the process.
gPodder 2.20.3 running on Maemo 4 (N810)
Packages have been uploaded to Maemo Extras, but as people have reported problems with the autobuilder, and as maemo.org seems to be moving these days, anyway (to the Hildon Foundation, apparently), we also provide for the first time since.. well, since a very long time I guess.. binary .deb packages for gPodder on Maemo 4 and Maemo 5 :)
gPodder 2.20.3 running on Maemo 5 (N900)
You can find the download links on the gPodder download page - you can directly download gPodder 2.20.3 from the web browser in both OS versions, and choose to open the .deb file with the Application Manager. Be sure to choose the right package for your device (N8x0 users choose the Maemo 4 version, N900 users choose the Maemo 5 version). Enjoy :) Next up: A new release of gPodder 3.x for Harmattan. Soon!
This is just a quick note of thanks (again) to the Maemo Community for stepping up and donating their hard-earned money in order to keep our community alive.
Because of your donations and the help of many community members — especially Reggie Suplido (rsuplido), long-time Maemo Community member and Super Admin of TMO (talk.maemo.org) and internettablettalk.com — we were able to purchase a license for vBulletin, the software that runs the TMO forums.
But, what does this mean for our community? It means that when we are set to migrate all of the maemo.org infrastructure to new servers at the end of this year, TMO will be coming with it. Hopefully, due to the migration and the vBulletin license, the community downtime will be negligible.
Again, thank you for supporting this community. And, if you haven’t donated any money yet, please consider doing so here:
http://hildonfoundation.org/support/
Happy Holidays everyone!
Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)
Attending: DocScrutinizer05, qwazix, ivgalvez, Mentalist Traceur.
Absent: NielDK.
Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):
- CC Device Issue Almost At Dead End
- Hildon Foundation Monthly Monetary Reports
- Infrastructure
Topic (CC Device Issue Almost At Dead End):
- qwazix still has no reply from anyone about the CC devices.
- ivgalvez recently acquired one more Nokia contact, who he will try.
Topic (Hildon Foundation Monthly Monetary Reports):
- Mentalist Traceur brought up for consideration that the Board could publish a monthly (or some other timeframe) report to the community, saying how much money was earned, how much was spent where, and what the financial aftermath was for Hildon Foundation for that month.
- There was mutual agreement with this suggestion.
- ivgalvez will forward this suggestion to the Board
Topic (Infrastructure):
- Nokia agreed to pay for everything except TMO for two months while the preparations for a transition are ongoing.
- TMO, however, has no such provision, and is thus fairly urgent.
- TMO will be needing an administrator in the near future.
- It is looking likely that the Foundation will have to hire a professional sysadmin at some point, if there is no sufficiently skilled volunteer.
- We had a significant debate about what the better course of action was (note: infrastructure decisions are decided by Board, not Council, so this has only indirect influence on policy, if any).
- The disagreement largely boils down to whether the hosting of talk.maemo.org forums and the other maemo.org website needs to be on one server, and more importantly, how soon should the servers be consolidated.
- It is also partly informed by a claim made that the laws of the US (where TMO is currently hosted) would require us to notify and/or get the agreement of all TMO members before the forum could be relocated to the EU.
- The details of the discussion can be seen in the IRC log, linked above, but were not included in the minutes for brevity.
- ivgalvez will contact his remaining Nokia contact in the hope of getting the CC issue unstuck.
- ivgalvez will forward the monthly (or other time period) Foundation financial report to community idea to the Board.