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Autobuilder for extras repository public beta
A while ago we discussed the idea of an autobuilder for the extras repository. We have been working on creating such an autobuilder and have been testing it in private. As a result we now think it is...
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maemo packaging policy draft
A draft for the maemo packaging policy has been released for comments by the community.What is the maemo packaging policy good for?Like it's Debian counter part, the maemo policy specifies how...
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Autobuilder for maemo extras repository part 2
Some time has passed since we first announced the maemo autobuilder for the extras repositories. Some people have tested it and we got a little bit of feedback. Not as much as we hoped, but I'm sure...
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Rebuild all chinook source packages on autobuilder
Currently Ed Bartosh and I are working on taking all source packages from the extras repository and try to build them on the autobuilder. The goal of this chinook rebuild effort is to get a set of...
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Application in Extras-Devel OK? Promote it!
Now that we have the autobuilder in place for Diablo, it is a good time to talk about how to get your package from Extras-Devel into the Maemo Extras repository.Before a package will end up in Extras...
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maemo.org/downloads automatic updates from Extras
The maemo.org downloads section now automatically picks up updated versions from the Maemo Extras repository. The 'Fresh' list will show the applications that were recently uploaded or promoted to...
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Maemo Summit 2008, Awesome!
The gathering of everybody Maemo has ended yesterday. 2 days filled with very interesting or even amazing meetings, talks and gossip. There was a very sharp contrast with the days before that at OSiM....
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Talk: Reducing number of external repositories
At the Maemo Summit, I had a talk about the Extras repositories and the plans for the future. The slides can be found on Slideshare: The huge number of external repositories makes it increasingly hard...
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Reducing number of external repositories #1
In my talk at the Maemo summit 2008, I talked about starting an effort to reduce the number of external repositories. Talking about this helps, but actively contacting developers and repository owners...
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New features autobuilder and Extras Assistant
Rejecting packages when the same version is uploaded for the second time.The autobuilder has been modified to reject a package when the same version is already available in the extras-devel...
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Packaging Policy change proposal
After long and heated discussions, we finally managed to finish the Better Package Categories task. When I started the discussion in April, I knew it would not be an easy task. It remained on my task...
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Improving maemo.org Downloads
As part of my tasks in the January 2009 Sprint for maemo.org, I want to gather improvement ideas for downloads.maemo.org. A list of improvements that I have come up with can be found at the wiki page....
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Introducing maemo.org packages
Starting with Fremantle, packages can now be managed by developers through the maemo.org packages interface. Community testers can help in the QA process by testing applications in the queue and...
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Fremantle maemo-select-menu-location change
While working on the maemo.org package interface, I noticed that quite a few package's developers didn't notice the changes in Fremantle regarding maemo-select-menu-location.Fremantle changes the way...
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Proposal: XSBC-Bugtracker in debian package
While implementing the maemo.org packages interface, I wanted to add a link to the bugtracker for a package or project. Eventually integrating bug reporting/searching, but more on that later. As all...
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Maemo 5 Downloads now available
For Maemo 5 applications which managed to reach the Extras repository through the community QA testing queue, maemo.org Downloads now has a home.The Download catalog automatically imports all...
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Backwards compatibility broken PR1.1 SDK
I've been discussing this issue with some people before as hypothetical case, but now it seems that we run into it: Compiling and application against the PR1.1 SDK creates packages which can not be...
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Extras dput and promotion changes
With the change to the new server infrastructure, we also changed the way developers can use dput to upload their source packages to the autobuilder. We created a special host named drop.maemo.org for...
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Maemo 5 Extras reaches 3.5M downloads
The maemo.org Extras repository for community contributed software has reached 3.5 million downloads for Maemo 5. Software is offered through maemo.org free of charge and the repository is open to all...
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Apps for MeeGo
Happy New Year everybody! Wow it has been a long time since I blogged :)A new year and we got new things to announce. We have been working on apps.formeego.org for a while. The idea is to have a...
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