Hello everyone!
No. You are not dreaming. This posting is actually real (and in my usual 'not that good' english).
It's been awhile since I worked on www.opkg.org. More than one whole year, to be exact. Over the past year there has been a lot going on. Many things have changed - to the good and to the bad.
Since the Openmoko-Project was officially 'killed', www.opkg.org became less important to me. I thought to myself 'Why creating a website for a project, that is dead anyway?'. Well, my prediction was, that after the announcement of Openmoko, concerning the end of the freerunner, the users will throw away their bricks and buy an iPhone (damn, I hate that thing). I thought www.opkg.org would be deserted a month later.
Well, I was wrong.
Astonishingly, you're still developing apps and other cool stuff for the neo. Even after all that time, Openmoko isn't 'officially supported' anymore, there are still 200 to 400 users that visit www.opkg.org each day. By now there are over 250 packages and more than 800 users registered in our database (not to mention the 2000 comments you've all written).
So. Why am I posting? It's simple: Even if I want www.opkg.org to die, it won't. I made no changes at all to the site for one year, and you're still visiting it! So I think that www.opkg.org is still useful for many of you.
This is why I'd like to improve the whole system. I'm not sure if there will be a new design/package system or whatsoever. But I would like to add at least some features, and this is where I ask for your help!
Please e-mail me everything you don't like about www.opkg.org or features you would like to see to
reanimation@opkg.org
Like all of you I just have 24 hours a day to work. So please, don't consider this as the 'rebirth' of www.opkg.org. I can't promise anything! I don't know how much time I can spend on developing. I can't even tell when you will see the first changes! I don't like promising things I can't deliver. This is why I don't. This time.
So, I'm looking forward to receive your input in my mailbox!
(... and don't forget to motivate me!)
Thanks.
Comments
davide wrote: (2010-01-07 00:41:23)
i suspect that there's someone working on some opkg showroom... you should ask on openmoko users list... and maybe get in touch and work together (we're a few and it would be great to link together).
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Airon90 wrote: (2010-01-07 15:13:47)
Great!
Trim wrote: (2010-01-07 18:58:24)
Mmmhh.. "Open-moko project was officially 'killed'". I think you speack about the Openmoko OS, because, the phone is still developing (but not the GTA03 version).
So, if there is always a lot of visit of this web site, it's simple because others distributions use actually .opkg packages and programs are always actual.
Thank you for this website, good bye ;)
So, if there is always a lot of visit of this web site, it's simple because others distributions use actually .opkg packages and programs are always actual.
Thank you for this website, good bye ;)
naught101 wrote: (2010-01-10 14:19:19)
This site look great, but it some things, like the search function make it feel like it's probably a hard to maintain. You should check out drupal and cck+views, it'd make everything much easier, built in search, multiple categories (like toolkits used, language written in, license). It should be easy to recreate the xml feed too with views_xml.
parilo wrote: (2010-01-11 07:04:44)
It's great that you don't let opkg.org alone :)
It would be great if in future opkg.org can produce information how to install apps into different distributions. There are a lot of distributions for Neo FreeRunner now.
It would be great if in future opkg.org can produce information how to install apps into different distributions. There are a lot of distributions for Neo FreeRunner now.
Yorick wrote: (2010-01-12 11:28:18)
great!
sadly everyone has only 24 hours in their day
maybe post something on the community list, I think there are people out there willing to help
sadly everyone has only 24 hours in their day
maybe post something on the community list, I think there are people out there willing to help
Bobby wrote: (2010-01-12 14:22:03)
Thank you!!
Fededrico Cremisi wrote: (2010-01-18 09:31:57)
Many thanks for your work, indeed. I am just an user since a couple of months. After some while in SHR I shifted toward OM2009, which is definitely better in my hands for a daily use. I am just looking to access to the database, which is still down. It would be great if somebody keeps the project alive and maintains the database. All that work must not be thrown away!
Thanks again,
federico
Thanks again,
federico
Pander wrote: (2010-01-20 13:49:08)
Great! Most of us are using SHR on Openmoko's devices. Now let's hope that SHR will run on also other devices, e.g. HTC. Thanks for maintaining this site.
bmq wrote: (2010-01-27 20:49:33)
this site is still the no. 1 reference for openmoko packages. i like the formula: abstracts describing the package, list of dependencies and one or more screenshots. please keep the repositories up and running as well!
Graziano wrote: (2010-02-16 14:53:00)
A big thank to the opkg.org maintainer.
I am one of the visitors and I don't even have a freerunner! :)
The website is beautiful and the idea is great.
Please consider joining forces with the om-showroom people:
http://www.tuxbrain.com/en/content/om-showroom-something-show
Together you can achieve something great.
Long live the Neo. :)
I am one of the visitors and I don't even have a freerunner! :)
The website is beautiful and the idea is great.
Please consider joining forces with the om-showroom people:
http://www.tuxbrain.com/en/content/om-showroom-something-show
Together you can achieve something great.
Long live the Neo. :)
