Openmoko has announced their 'Back to basics' plan a week ago. It's time to review. Has they stick to their plan to reduce boot time and started to fix the suspend/resume problems?
I've followed the Git branches, mailing lists and trac changelogs closely and I can only say I'm deeply disappointed. There was a hooray of almost 98 messages, when Openmoko announced they would work on the low-level issues. It's sad that they will have to dissapoint them. This week Openmoko has worked on Qi (A replacement of u-boot) and Gta03 (The next openmoko cell phone)
At Openmoko: Please explain me. Am I overlooking things or are you forgotten your own plan? We (the community) hoped, you heard us clear. We want you to handle the lowlevel things. That's our main concern right now: Getting you to handle the things most of us can't.
Answer of Openmoko (John Lee): We are working on multiple issues including the two subjects you mentioned. There will be public update to the mailing list, wiki page update (Improving user experience), etc. Please just be patient.
ps. There is an update of openmoko on their progress with the 'back to basics' strategy, please read.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Is Openmoko working on their 'back to basics' plan?
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ONE WEEK passed and it's time to review? Are you serious?
We are working on multiple issues including the two subjects you mentioned. There will be public update to the mailing list, wiki page update (Improving user experience), etc. Please just be patient.
- John Lee
Yeah, I will try to give all the users a weekly headup of what Openmoko is doing on his 'back to basics' plan. I think the community deserves to know. We all are eager to see the changes that will let the freerunner became solid. But by reading through the mailing list/trac/git, I've noticed that nothing has changed. (Or nothing is announced) So that's what I tell them.
"I think the community deserves to know."
Since when does the community "deserve to know"? The GTA03 hasn't been released so nothing to demand there. The distro.. patches and other software are opensource, nothing the community "deserves to know" either.
Will you send an angry mail to the kernel developers if they change something in the kernel without telling you? Maybe a stupid example, but.. oh well.
Impatience is bad, OpenMoko isn't dead.
@laen: The community deserve to know I didn't found anything on the mailing list/trac/git that correspondent with the back to basics strategy.
I didn't say Openmoko has to say everything they do. Or they have to warn befor changing things.
It wasn't intended as flame war. It was just a quick update on the 'back to basics' strategy and a question to openmoko, if I'm looking at the wrong things.
It was maybe a little bit sharp post, but it was how different people saw it. They all saw a week going pass by and nothing changed.
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