info needed for Plasma Active Two release announcements

[martin brook]

Hi,

Carl, good to see so much interest.

I've been working on porting Plasm Active to Advent Vega (Tegra2), Nokia
N950, trimslice and lately G9 with an unlocked device from Archos in my
spare time.

There are instructions and images for N950 and Trimslice at

http://images.formeego.org/trimslice/
http://images.formeego.org/n950/plasma-active/

Instructions and images for Advent Vega and point of view Tegra 2 tablet at

http://share.basyskom.com/contour/Deployment/latest-basyskom-plasma-active-tegra2-mer.html
http://share.basyskom.com/contour/Deployment/mer_arm_install_archive/point_of_view_nvidia_tegra2/readme.txt
http://share.basyskom.com/contour/Deployment/mer_arm_install_archive/point_of_view_nvidia_tegra2/

G9 Images and kernel can be found here, although you will need an onlocked
bootloader which I understand will ba avaiable in the next few days.

http://share.basyskom.com/contour/Deployment/mer_arm_install_archive/archos-generation-9/
https://www.gitorious.org/archos-gen9-mer-adaptation-kernel

There has been a number of large changes in the architecture of some of
these pieces the biggest for me is the move away from MeeGo as the core to
Mer.  http://www.merproject.org/   These changes have meant that keeping up
with the latest baseline on these pieces of hardware is a large task.

These ports are very young and are not production quality so any help is
welcome.

You can find me and the guys on #Mer and #active on Freenode IRC and more
information on the Mer community wikipages,
http://wiki.merproject.com/wiki/Community_Workspace

I suggest that once PA2 hits a stable RC point (please let me know) that we
make images for each of the devices listed above and if you have a device
spare let me know I'm always on the lookout for potential Mer/Plasma Active
targets.

BR

vgrade (mad scientist)




On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Carl Symons <carlsymons at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 3:13 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > hi...
> >
> > we are tentatively going with the following three messages for the
> release
> > announcement around PA2:
> >
> > * Improved usability
> >        * enhanced touch functionality in contour
> >        * improvements to web browsing
> >        * settings app
> >        * consistent interface for adding things to activities
> >        * bug fixing (bugzilla says 92 issues closed so far, with 48 open)
> >
> > * Performance improvements
> >        * improvements in keyboard
> >        * faster listings of applications
> >
> > * Recommendations
> >
> > it will wrap up with an overview of availability, which will highlight
> the
> > working partnership with Mer and the availability of Plasma Active on the
> > various devices that it has been brought up on (archos, tegra2, etc..).
> the
> > expansion of availability between PA1 and PA2 will be highlighted.
> >
> > final para will be an invitation for participation and a hint that PA3
> will be
> > a more feature-focused release.
> >
> >
> > so .. what i need from all of you is this:
> >
> > lists and details of changes in PA2 that fit in the above 3 topics. e.g.
> "what
> > has changed, exactly, in the web browser?", "what are the most
> significant
> > fixes?", "what kind of numbers do we have for the faster, model-based
> > listings?"
> >
> > also please feel free to add new subtopics. i only listed two items under
> > performance improvements, though i know there are more than that ;)
> >
> > bullet point lists are good enough. i don't need full
> sentences/paragraphs
> > (though those are also welcome ;) as i'll be putting this together into a
> > coherent text next week.
> >
> > which means i need this info by next week ;) ... tuesday at the latest
> please!
> >
> > --
> > Aaron J. Seigo
>
> I have gotten several requests from people wanting to install Plasma
> Active on their tablets. There are two camps:
> * devices currently running PA. I got a message today from someone who
> wants PA on their ARCHOS G9 tablet (publicized a day or two ago).
> People are hungry for notiOS and notAndroid. Plus they want real open
> source and experimental cool stuff without having to start from zero.
>
> * devices that resemble working installations...ARM
>
> It would be useful to building traffic and awareness to have
> information to support both. Acknowledging the possibility of
> problems, including bricking...there can be warnings, fallback
> strategies, whatever else is necessary to support the mad scientists.
> Perhaps the more outlandish installation possibilities could be
> treated through a more informal website/wiki.
>
> This will take knowledgeable developer input, as well as purposeful
> coordination between the various installation suggestions, wikis and
> forums. It could (will) be messy, but the outcomes are
> valuable...potential new developers, more people, devices, traffic,
> publicity, applications.
>
> This all fits with "invitation for participation", and serves to lower
> the technical bar for involvement.
>
> Carl
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