A couple of weeks back twenty-nine Symbian eco-system tools creators spent the day sharing plans, strategies and goals here in the Bay Area. We had representatives from handset manufacturers, package owners, chip vendors, startups, tools vendors, and service providers. This is after all an open community.
Let me share that with you and see if you’ve any ideas for improving our process or thinking. For those not in the tools business but with an interest in Symbian – why is this important? Going forward we need to create ways that people not steeped in the Symbian tradition can participate, easily, effectively and collaboratively in the contribution process – i.e. taking the OS and tools forward.
- Platform Creation – Use tools to support, ease, and encourage platform creation and collaboration
- Getting Started – It should be easy and fast to create a Symbian hello world program
- Understand the Tools Portfolio – There are a few hundred different tools in the Symbian eco-system. There needs to be a good way to understand them and find what you need
- Tools Package Owners – need encouraging to make the “leap of faith” and contribute even if there are no known collaborators
- Symbian Foundation Tools team and community – need to encourage collaborators to express interest in contribution
Some of the tools and issues we are talking about?
Qt Tools Qt is an application framework (not just a User Interface framework). Qt Creator is focused on being a great C++ development environment.
Open Source Best Practices. Qt and CodeSourcery shared best practices from being successful open source eco-system tools providers. Some examples of best practice:
- Meet the community on its own turf – through mailing lists, IRC, forums
- Making sure contributors see value in their contribution
- Consider using more existing well known open source tools instead of open sourcing comparable historically closed source tools
There are more SIG meeting details and presentations on the Symbian wiki. Meantime we agreed to create a Working Group to create a better organization of the tools for documentation, installation and usage. See the Symbian tools forum for more details.
Hi! I’m trying to find how can I config my N85 to make the vibe to last only a few seconds and the music to go on playing, both in a call and in a message.
thank you very much!
PD: Please, guide me if this is not the correct place.