Re: [Opl-dev-development] A new OPL recruit?

[Alex P. <ap...@al...>]

Arjen Broeze wrote:
> Hi Alex
>  
> Thanks for your email and yes, I'm actually reading this :-)
Great!
>  
> You're right that there hasn't been much (actually none at all) activity 
> on the sourceforge pages, but some work is definitely ongoing. A lot of 
> bugs in the 9300/9500 runtime have been fixed and a new release for the 
> Communicator is only a couple of weeks away.

Well that's excellent news!

>  
> The kind of help we need is in the development of the runtime, which is 
> written in Symbian C++. All of this is done on PC. For S80 we have a 
> pretty stable runtime, for UIQ we have a beta that still needs a lot of 
> work and for Series 60 we have almost nothing. For Series 60 we need an 
> experienced Symbian C++ developer who can help us to essentially rewrite 
> the entire runtime to work on newer S60 phones. For UIQ and Communicator 
> anyone with a little knowledge of Symbian programming can help out already.
>  
> If you have knowledge about S60 C++ programming I'd be happy to have you 
> in the team. And even if you don't you're welcome as well since, as you 
> mentioned, we also need to test the changes made.
>  
> Can you provide me with a little more information as to your programming 
> skills, interests and how you might be able to help out, based on the 
> information above?

Unfortuantely I do not have any C++ programming experience. I tend to 
stick to more simple interpreted languages.

I only own a Series 60 phone, and would be willing to test new Series 60 
runtime improvements on the Nokia 6620. I wish there was something more 
I could do for you. Perhaps there is, and we can't think of it yet ;-)

I might suggest, perhaps, that you try a slightly wider recruitment 
campaign, perhaps submitting stories to OSNews and Slashdot, as well as 
other more language/region-centric FOSS news websites, with a headline 
such as "SymbianOS Developers needed for LGPL OPL project" or 
something...make sure you get those keywords, GPL, OPL, and 
SymbianOS....otherwise your messages will almost surely go in the bitbucket.

What do you think?