Category:Package Owners

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Pages belonging to this category have useful information for Package Owners. If you just want to get up and running, jump down to Essential Reading or Get Started.

Contents 1 What's new? 1.1 On this page 1.2 Community News 1.3 Popular, new and recently changed pages 2 Essential Reading 3 Getting Started 3.1 My Package 3.2 Contributions 3.3 Development Processes and Resources 3.4 Roles 3.5 Templates & Branding 3.6 Building Community & Promoting my Package 3.7 Contacts 4 Common Tasks 5 Learn About ... 6 Meeting Minutes, Workshops and Proposals

What's new?

On this page

This list highlights significant changes to this category

• Aug 26th 2010: Added Information about SEE 2010
• Aug 16th 2010: Added Branding my package - Explains what the foundation can offer, to help you brand your package
• Aug 16th 2010: Added PPT Templates for packages - Powerpoint templates and imagery for packages, package teams, package owners and committers

Show more than the last 3 major changes to this category

Community News

Tales from the Community	The Symbian Blog
Standing out in the crowd (part 2): advertising your project or package Last weeks post looked at how to market your open source project or package looking into the question what marketing is anyway, finding out who your audience is and understanding your own and your audiences needs. This is necessary groundwork … Continue reading →	Triage Thursday has arrived! So how can we identify the real "show stoppers"? We decided to create the keyword "blocker". So, when we review critical and major bugs, and we deem them to be show stoppers for the release, they are also tagged as a blocker. To give real meaning to the list of blockers, we decided to triage all bugs (not just the ones raised by the Bug Squad). There are close to 100 defects in Symbian^3 PDKs , so we will be hosting a Triage Thursday every week until we clear the backlog. The next event is planned for 2nd September, feel free to join us!
More Standing out in the crowd (part 2): advertising your project or package Last weeks post looked at how to market your open source project or package looking into the question what marketing is anyway, finding out who your audience is and understanding your own and your audiences needs. This is necessary groundwork … Continue reading → Standing out in the crowd (part 1): marketing your project or package At OSCON and the Community Leadership Summit the question how you get noticed as an open source project (or more generally as a a community) was covered in a number of discussions and talks. A really good talk was Josh … Continue reading → Getting heard in the noise #2 – know your channels! A key success factor to “getting your message heard” is understanding who you are targeting and how to reach them.  I wanted to share with you my experiences of reaching for community members to join the BugSquad and what I … Continue reading →	More Triage Thursday has arrived! So how can we identify the real "show stoppers"? We decided to create the keyword "blocker". So, when we review critical and major bugs, and we deem them to be show stoppers for the release, they are also tagged as a blocker. To give real meaning to the list of blockers, we decided to triage all bugs (not just the ones raised by the Bug Squad). There are close to 100 defects in Symbian^3 PDKs , so we will be hosting a Triage Thursday every week until we clear the backlog. The next event is planned for 2nd September, feel free to join us! Register for the 2nd Symbian Japan Forum now! The agenda will include presentations by NTT DOCOMO, Fujitsu and other core Japanese members, as well as two presentations from Nokia. These will be the introduction of the Nokia N8, the latest Nokia N-series handset and the first Symbian^3 device, and an introduction to Qt, a cross platform UI framework. Symbian at upcoming events At each of these conferences you’ll have the opportunity to meet and talk to members of the Symbian Foundation and community, and enjoy sessions, demonstrations and presentations on a variety of Symbian-related topics.

Popular, new and recently changed pages

Popular pages	New pages	Recently changed pages
Contribution Process ‎(31,418 views) Symbian Foundation Technology Roadmaps ‎(25,284 views)	SEE 2010 information for package owners, committers, etc. (2010-08-25) Branding my package (2010-08-16)	Contribution Q&As (2010-09-01) Mercurial Q&As (2010-09-01)
More Contribution Process ‎(31,418 views) Symbian Foundation Technology Roadmaps ‎(25,284 views) Coding Standards and Conventions ‎(22,117 views) Defect Handling Guidelines ‎(16,581 views) Mercurial Q&As ‎(15,953 views) Committers ‎(13,927 views) Being a package owner ‎(13,849 views) Meet the Technology Management team ‎(12,986 views) Developer Guidelines: Foundation Builds ‎(12,951 views) Accepting Contributions ‎(12,573 views) Good Community Behavior ‎(12,316 views) Package Owner Admin Tasks ‎(12,258 views) Converting a Package to Open Source ‎(11,478 views) Contribution Process/ja ‎(11,281 views) IP Guidelines ‎(11,037 views)	More SEE 2010 information for package owners, committers, etc. (2010-08-25) Branding my package (2010-08-16) PPT Templates for packages (2010-08-16) Package Owner Admin Tasks/Mercurial Admin (2010-05-19) Package Owner Admin Tasks/Bugzilla Admin (2010-05-19) My Package Widget (2010-04-28) Package owner best practice (2010-04-13) Package Owner Admin Tasks/Create or retire a mailing list (2010-03-16) Package Owner Admin Tasks/Add or Change Committer (2010-03-16) Package Owner Admin Tasks/Add or Change Package Owner (2010-03-16) Checking legal prerequisites before accepting contributions (2010-02-04) Taking ownership of my package (2010-02-03) Tracking contributions using commit Mailing Lists (2010-02-02) Contribution Q&As (2010-01-15) How to keep on top of the PDK evolution (2009-12-16)	More Contribution Q&As (2010-09-01) Mercurial Q&As (2010-09-01) Managing my Landing Page (2010-08-31) Package Owner Admin Tasks/Bugzilla Admin (2010-08-31) Package Owner Admin Tasks/Mercurial Admin (2010-08-31) Package Owner Admin Tasks (2010-08-31) Contribution Process (2010-08-31) Package owner best practice (2010-08-31) Accepting Contributions (2010-08-31) SEE 2010 information for package owners, committers, etc. (2010-08-26) Branding my package (2010-08-16) PPT Templates for packages (2010-08-16) Contribution Process/ja (2010-08-16) Package Owner Admin Task Queue (2010-08-04) Developer Guidelines: Foundation Builds (2010-07-29)

Essential Reading

• Taking ownership of my package - a step-by-step guide to get started as package owner
• Package owner best practice - a condensed document outlining what makes a good package owner
• Being a package owner - gives an overview over the role of the package owner
• Contribution Process - outline of the Symbian contribution process
• IP Guidelines - this page provides IP guidelines and help for package owners and committers
• Good Community Behaviour - what is good community behaviour

Getting Started

My Package

• Logging into Bugzilla for the first time - read this if you or your committers have trouble seeing Bugzilla
• Tracking Package features - this page explains how to publish your Package Backlog and populate the Backlog wiki page
• Managing my Mailing Lists - this page provides suggestions on how to work with Mailing Lists
• Managing my Landing Page - this page gives instructions on how to manage your landing page
• Managing my Wiki Pages - this page provides suggestions on good Package wiki pages
• Bugzilla Admin Instructions how to request changes to your bug queue (such as new components, etc.)
• Highlight Hot Bugs - this page provides suggestions on how to advertise bugs for the community to fix
• Symbian Documentation Q&As - this page explains how to publish documentation about your Package
• A really good introduction to Mercurial
• Managing my Package from my symbian phone - A widget to manage your package bug, contribution, backlog, build results and more

Contributions

• A slideset giving an overview of topics related to contributions
• Contributing to Symbian (Trail) - this is a trail through documents that explains how to contribute to the platform (from the contributors viewpoint)
• IP Guidelines - this page provides IP guidelines and help for package owners and committers
  • The IP Management category covers all of the pages which relate to the management of Intellectual Property
• Accepting Contributions - explains how to accept a contribution from another member of the community into the master code line
  • Checking legal prerequisites before accepting contributions - shows how you check whether a contributor has done all their paperwork
  • Accepting Symbian^2 Contributions - blow-by-blow instructions for Symbian^2 contributions
• Tracking contributions using commit Mailing Lists - explains how you can use mailing lists to keep on top of Hg commits
• Tracking Bugtracker Patches - explains how you can track patches coming in via bugzilla
• Major Contribution Proposals pipeline - shows major contribution proposals submitted to the councils
• How to keep on top of the PDK evolution - to be able to work with contributors, you need to understand whether there any shortfalls in the kits. Shortfalls mainly have to do with plugging 3rd party IP holes. This page shows how you can keep on top of what is happening.
• Contributions to the Qt Package must be made using the Qt contribution model which is documented in the Contribute to Qt. See also the contribution FAQ for more details: FAQs: Qt Repositories and Contribution

Development Processes and Resources

• Source Tree Structure for Packages - Explaines the source structure of packages
• Developer Guidelines: Foundation Builds - A brief introduction to the builds to be executed within the Symbian Foundation
• Defect Handling Guidelines - Gives an overview over how we use Bugzilla, i.e. what states are used when, etc.
• Symbian BC Break Management Process - Outlines the binary compatibility process, i.e. what is involved in evolving public APIs
• How to raise a Public API CR - How to raise a request to break a public API to the Architecture Council
• Coding Standards and Conventions - Coding Standards and Conventions for the Symbian Foundation when programming in Symbian OS C/C++

Roles

• Package Owners, Committers, Contributors overview
• Committers - what are they, how are they selected
• Technology Managers’ role in working with Package Owners - what can you expect from technology managers
• Community Managers' role in working with Package Owners - what you can expect from Community Managers

Templates & Branding

• Branding my package - Explains what the foundation can offer, to help you brand your package
• PPT Templates for packages - Powerpoint templates and imagery for packages, package teams, package owners and committers

Building Community & Promoting my Package

• Building a community for a package - explains why and how you should build a community
  • The following blog series called Standing out in the crowd also provides good background information: Marketing your project or package (part 1), Advertising your project or package (part 2)
• How to ask the community for help on fixing defects / developing new features? - explains how to seek help from the community
• Talk at an event. The Community Event Calendar shows you what is coming
  • If you talk or are at event, why not add to the wiki page in the calendar?
  • If there is an event that we missed, why not add it to wiki calendar?
• Add your blog to planet.symbian.org - drop your your Community Manager a line if you want to do this
• Set up a Stammtisch - drop your your Community Manager a line and we can help you

Contacts

• Your Community Manager
• The Technology Management Team: technology managers and technology specialists
• The Delivery Team: release, integration and engineering progress support

Common Tasks

• Package Owner Admin Tasks - common administrative tasks for package owners, e.g.
  • Change a committer
  • Architectural Change Request - these help with formal interaction with the Architecture Council
  • Package Owner Admin Task Queue - shows open/closed admin tasks
• Converting a Package to Open Source - provides information on how to convert your package to the EPL

Learn About ...

This section contains Wiki categories that are relevant to Package Owners and highlights a number of articles:

• Bugzilla and Defects
  • Mylyn and TaskTop for use with Foundation Bugzilla - tools that can help you work efficiently with Bugzilla
• Builds Category - information on Symbian Foundation Build infrastructure
  • Build BRAG Status - Definition of Build BRAG status
  • Analyze a Raptor Build - explains how we process the Raptor logs and extract the number of failures and severities which is a central part of the BRAG computation.
• Coding Standards Category - information on coding standards and conventions
• Councils Category - information on councils and links to council minutes
  • Council proposal Category - proposals submitted to the councils for review
• IP Management Category - all pages which relate to the management of Intellectual Property
• Mercurial aka Hg Category - informat on how to use Mercurial
  • A really good introduction to Mercurial
  • Mercurial Quick Start
  • Mercurial Usage Cheat Sheet
  • Mercurial Q&As
  • Using Mercurial Tags
  • Working with Mercurial Queues

Meeting Minutes, Workshops and Proposals

This section is for meeting minutes, notes from workshops and proposals.

• Package Owner Workshops
  • Package_Owner_Workshops/LondonMay10 - material and notes from the package owner workshop in London on May 18 2010
  • Package_Owner_Workshops/FinlandDec09 - material and notes from package owner workshops in Finland from Dec 10-12 2009
  • Package_Owner_Workshops/BangaloreOct09 - material and notes from Bangalore package owner workshop on 12/10/2009
  • Package Owner Workshops/BangaloreOct09 - material and notes from Bangalore package owner workshop on the 12th of Oct 2009
  • Package Owner Workshops/LondonSep09 - material and notes from London package owner workshop on the 7th of Sept 2009
  • Package Owner Workshops/SEE - workshop notes from Towel Day 2009 & Towel Day Video, covering package owner views on SEE 2009
• File:Package Owner Meeting Aug v1.0.ppt - slides presented at August 20th package owner meeting