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[edit] What is it?Seamless Software Update (SSU), is the term Nokia formerly used for over-the-air updates of Maemo (generally marketed as Maemo Update as of Maemo 5).
The Community Seamless Software Update (CSSU) is being developed by the Maemo community as a continuation of, and expansion on, Nokia's update support. It aims to deliver fixes which would be difficult to deliver through Extras (like core Maemo packages). It won't, however, bundle software which can (or could) be installed through the Extras repositories.
There are two such efforts for the Maemo platform. This page describes the one for Fremantle (Maemo 5, as used in the Nokia N900). The Diablo Community Project is doing the same for Diablo (Maemo 4.1, as used in the Nokia N800, N810 and N810 WiMAX Edition).
So this CSSU is the recommended update method for Maemo 5 Fremantle. It's not a new version of maemo distribution.
[edit] Whom is it for? [edit] EveryoneSince the release of the stable branch CSSU-S is meant to be the LongTermSupport hotspot for all N900 users/owners.
Maximum compatibility for all N900 owners is CSSU primary guidance.
[edit] TestersPower-users, developers, Nokia/Maemo/MeeGo engineers, testers, documentation writers and those willing to risk a re-flash in order to help can still install the testing version and stay as bleeding edge as possible inside CSSU universe, not implying CSSU will be the bleeding edge and pacemaker of development away from maemo5 towards something above and beyond (that's not what CSSU is meant to be and never will be, see above note about maximum compatibility).
[edit] ThumbersTired of the N900's memory bottleneck, look no further. CSSU-Thumb is reducing code size by compiling packages with Thumb2 ISA.
CSSU-Thumb is based on CSSU-Testing flavor, but uses a very low level patch to kernel to overcome the bugs in OMAP chip related to thumb/ARM mixed code. Thus the binaries from CSSU-Thumb will not work in a "normal system", and several things like uBoot or flashing --flash-only=kernel stop working the way they used to, and you need to take special care regarding the changed behaviour of those. If you don't, our system might start segfaulting like mad and probably not even boot up anymore. Thus to go back from thumb-enabled kernel to stock- or any other non-thumb-kernel is not an option for CSSU-Thumb users. Generally this solution is deprecated for you if you don't feel familiar with kernel installation stuff.
Main article: Community SSU/Thumb
CSSU-Thumb talk.maemo.org Thread
[edit] Installation"Newbie" Video Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMHxo1ALXNE
Another nice one (I (jr/docS) prefer it better): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=DPVHOpGVzZY
Nevertheless read this full page as well, before starting CSSU installation, so you understand what it's all about.
Note that both videos show installation (and features) of CSSU-T - for (on first glance missing) features of CSSU-S see http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_SSU#Features
THIS IS THE ONE AND ONLY SUPPORTED AND TESTED WAY TO INSTALL CSSU, please follow instructions faithfully!
There's no way to "uninstall" CSSU! Although you hardly ever want to do that. So:
Problems? Check the Installation FAQ
Main article: Community SSU/Features
Main article: Community SSU/FeaturesStable
You find there how to use new features such as Thomas Perl's hildon-desktop improvements and the status of applications in Portrait Mode with forcerotation
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Main article: Community SSU/Changelog
Main article: Community SSU/ChangelogStable
lists all changes from stock PR1.3 to CSSU and between various CSSU releases.
Can you write documentation? If so, it'd be great to flesh out the wiki page with installation instructions (to make it easy for users to install without worrying about missing a step or getting it wrong); explain more about the SSU and generally spruce up the wiki page and maintain things like the changelogs etc.
Were you involved in developing Maemo? If so, with Nokia now looking to Harmattan and MeeGo, we'd love to see your itches addressed in the Community SSU (CSSU). Have you always wanted to implement something in hildon-desktop, but Management stood in your way? We'd love to have it!
Have you written a patch for Maemo? Raise a bug and let's get it in the CSSU.
Are you a developer? There are numerous patches floating around for hildon-desktop; but they can't be included in the CSSU until they are configurable (via gconf) and default to off.
Want to test? Not only testing this release, but writing test scripts so that each release of the CSSU can get sanity checked before unleashing it into a "stable" repo for end-users. How do we do it? What should be tested? How is it organised?
Want to organise? There's still lots of process left to organise; hopefully there'll be bugs and features to triage and manage in bugs.maemo.org as well as communication of the testing, releases and end-user readiness of the CSSU.
Have great ideas? If you have suggestions that you think could be picked up by the CSSU developers, please add them here: CSSU Requests. However see the notice above about CSSU not going to include anything that better gets implemented as a normal app. Nonetheless CSSU actually will host apps that are specific to CSSU core system, the orientation-lock applet being first of a possibly ever increasing number.
For more information: contact MohammadAG on #maemo-ssu on FreeNode IRC or council@maemo.org.
[edit] QA and bugsMain article: Community SSU/QA
Quality is of paramount importance to the Community SSU. There are, therefore, two repositories: testing and stable. Changes are carefully tested, with an extensive set of tests, before things are made "stable". Packages in cssu-testing are supposed to be crafted and tested to be in a shape where the contributor and cssu maintainers expect them to pass those tests for "stable".
If you have found a bug, in either the testing or stable releases, please raise a bug. Getting involved through testing, bug triaging and running of the tests is a good way to get involved; as, of course, is writing documentation!
[edit] DevelopmentMain article: Community SSU/Development
The Community SSU is developed and managed through Github. Bugs are tracked in Bugzilla. Collaboration largely happens on IRC. Getting involved through development, bug triaging and managing developers is a good way to get involved.
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