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Set of notes and action points from the discussions about Community SSU on #maemo-ssu freenode

Main participants

* lcuk
* MohammadAG
* Jaffa
* Venemo
* lma
* x-fade
* rst38h
* crashanddie

and more


== Discussion topics ==
* finding source locations and identifying GOOD patches
* submitting potential patches to a central testing source
* making a new <code>mp-generic*</code> meta package

* discussing with lma about current n8x0 community ssu problems and workarounds and insight

* looking into getting the wiki sorted
** need wiki editor :P

* looking at how to manage the patchsets
** we know the N900 Fremantle system works well using git tags
** the 8x0 patchset currently contains 10 local based quilts

* we need a gitorious group to cover these ''Done: http://gitorious.org/community-ssu''


== Build Sources ==

We must gather together and list the main giturl sources and tags used to build from.

for instance:
http://gitorious.org/modest/modest tag 3.4.8

This allows us to reproduce builds and get source to the same location we build from.

<pre>
<lcuk> how many packages for n8x0 are you looking at including in an ssu?
<lcuk> and how have you considered looking at updating the system so far - you said its all manual at the moment
<lma> I have 10 (source) packages at the moment
<lcuk> do you mind listing them 
<lma> busybox dnsmasq loudmouth modest osso-pdf-viewer osso-software-version tinymail community-ssu-enabler xorg-server kernel-diablo
</pre>

''This has started at http://gitorious.org/community-ssu, but needs completing with things like Modest.''

== Process ==
As started being discussed on [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=67905 talk.maemo.org]:

# Who ultimately owns the CSSU?
#* Council?
# How will included improvements be decided?
#* Will there be an inclusive policy - every improvement that someone is willing to work on will be included - or will there be a gatekeeper that will decide what to include?
#* Is the scope limited to improving packages which are included by Nokia in the OS; or should it grow to include "useful" stuff?
#* Should wholesale replacement of apps (such as Media Player) be done with open source, feature- & UI-compatible versions; if available?
# How will testing be organised?
#* Positive
#* Negative
#* Regression
#* Installation from scratch
#* Upgrade from previous version
# How will it be advertised?
# How will it be supported?
#* Bugzilla
#* IRC?
#* Forum

== Technical ==
# How to work out value of <code>Maemo-Required-Free-Space</code> header in <code>mp-fremantle-community-pr</code>?

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