postmarketOS in 2024-10
Writing the monthly blog post is a lot of work. To scale it up (see postmarketos#79 (closed)), you can put here what either you have been working on yourself, or something significant you found others working on so we can include it. We use markdown formatted short bullet points with links to merge requests, please put it in that format.
See also: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/09/29/pmOS-update-2024-09/#behind-the-scenes
ETA: 2024-11-03 (moved to start of November because lots of other stuff going on)
Activity
added monthly-blog-post label
- A new pmOS-specific APKBUILD key has been added.
By Aster Boese on 2024-09-30T17:41:44
mentioned in issue postmarketos#79 (closed)
By Oliver Smith on 2024-09-30T17:49:15
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mrtest has gained a new option:
upgrade. Although not yet released, this allows to test packaging changes by using the artifacts on an MR as a remote repository!Side note: Ollie, I guess this deprecates one of the bpo features? In case we want to open an issue there, or you can get rid of some legacy code
By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-10-02T09:01:22
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@dannycolin and I worked on a grant application to allow him to improve and upstream stuff for mobile-config-firefox, and it got accepted! https://nlnet.nl/project/Firefox-linuxmobile/
(this was originally an idea for gsoc that didn't get accepted for gsoc)
By Oliver Smith on 2024-10-02T20:53:35
- maybe we have milestones already to link to?
- we already have some ideas for upstreaming stuff / making firefox more userfriendly (see issue tracker), but what would users like to see prioritized? let's create an issue / maybe Danny makes a mastodon post in the meantime and ask them.
Edited by Oliver Smith 
gitlab migration is done, refer to other blog post: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/10/14/gitlab-migration/
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@biktorgj, @lynxis, and @pabloyoyoista worked on a grant application for the first two to add and streamline support for VoLTE on Qualcomm phones https://nlnet.nl/project/VoLTE-Qualcom/ The grant is now approved, and although work has not started, we're proud to share it will be hosted in our new instance!
mrhlpr!46 (merged) got merged
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OpenSource Conference 2024 Tokyo/Fall edition on 10/26 (in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan):
- Great interest in pmOS overall
- There were more than 40 persons visited to our booth.
- Many of them were so surprised when they had understood the fact that very recent MATE and Linux kernel work on a 12-years-old Arm device with proper touchscreen and rotation supports!
- leaflets (jp & en) were a bit part of the success!
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pmbootstrap v3: slimmed down the milestone to the really important blockers, %3.0.0 critical path (blockers only!!) in pmbootstrap and not that many remaining.
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new device sony-togari: pmaports!5739 (merged)
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some chromebooks got disabled in edge, maybe somebody wants to help fixing it? pmaports#3186
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Wiki: There are still many pages with references to gitlab.com/postmarketOS in the wiki, incl. user-pages. --> this shows these pages maybe it would be good to have that mentioned?
mentioned in issue #185 (closed)
