Tools for Mobile Linux 10-minute talk. Mauren Brenner discussed the status of TmL for Galileo

1. Tools for mobile Linux
New and Noteworthy
Mauren Brenner
Committer
Eldorado Institute
Fabio Rigo
Contributor
Eldorado Institute

2. Mission
• Tools and frameworks that assist in the
creation of a development environment
that allows developers to easily create
applications for mobile devices

3. History
• Project incubated in December 2006,
driven largely by Motorola, with
contributions from Montavista and Nokia
• Two releases to date (Oct 2008, Jan 2009)
• Release 0.3 on Galileo train
• Commercial-quality code being used in
shipping products available today

4. TmL Technology for Galileo++
• Device framework
– A framework that defines types of devices that can be simulated
– A mechanism that defines states and transitions between states
• VNC Viewer plugin
– An implementation of the VNC protocol as a View inside Eclipse
• Protocol framework
– A framework that takes the definition of a communication
protocol
• /proc Tools
– Tools that access diagnostic information in the /proc filesystem
• Device Proxy (under development)
– A framework for exchanging data between external sources and
simulated devices

5. Category Item Target Milestone TmL Bug TmL Status
http://wiki.eclipse.org/DSDP/TML/EclipseGalileoPlanning
M4 257283 Yes
Intent
M4 257285 Yes
Communicate M4 257284 Yes
Participation
Attendance M4 257286 Yes
Ramp Down Policy M5 257287 Yes
IP M5 257288 Yes
APIs M6 257289 Yes
Development
Message Bundles M4 257290 Yes
Version Numbering M5 257291 Yes
Leverage OSGi M5 257292 Yes
Bundles Execution Environment M5 257293 Yes
Signing M4 257294 Yes
Use Jars M4 257295 Yes
Builds M4 257296 Yes
Orbit M4 257297 Yes
Releng
Optimization M4 257298 Yes
New & Noteworthy RC 257299 Pending
Work Together RC 257300 Pending
Capabilities M6 257301 Yes
Deployment M6 257302 Yes
Localization
M5 257303 Yes
Branding RC 257307 Pending
Usability M5 257304 Ok
Accessibility M4 257305 Ok
Performance M7 257306 Pending
Should Do
M6 257308 Yes
Localization M6 257309 Yes
M7 257310 Pending

6. New and Noteworthy
• There is a new update site:
http://download.eclipse.org/dsdp/tml/updates/0.3M6
• Migrating the main update site to use signed jars
• Planning to move to Subversion
• /proc tools may move out of TmL after Galileo
• Use this query to show the list of bugs fixed
• For post-Galileo, submit feature requests as bugs
• For details on checkins, see the CVS changelog
• For other questions, check the TmL FAQ

7. The future of TmL
• Continue development of frameworks, protocols
and reference implementations
• Continue coordinated releases (trains)
• Support the mobile Linux and Android
development communities with tools
• Recruit contributors and committers that have
interest in mobile & embedded Linux
• Move technology that have a better fit elsewhere
• Eventual goal of reaching maturity (v 1.0)

8. Working with the TmL Team
Project web site:
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tml
Project wiki:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/DSDP/TML
Regular phone meetings:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/DSDP/TML/TmLOpenPhoneMeetings
Developer mailing list:
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/dsdp-tml-dev
dsdp-tml-dev@eclipse.org
TmL demo:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/DSDP/TML/How_to_configure_TmL_demo
Contributions, Bug Reports, Suggestions using Bugzilla
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&classification=DSDP&
product=TmL

9. TmL Committers and Contributors
Christian Kurzke Eric Cloninger
Architect Project Lead
Fabio Fabio Rigo
Mauren Otavio
Daniel
Fantato Contibutor
Ferranti
Brenner Franco
Committer Committer
Committer Committer
Eugene
Yufen Kuo Petr Baranov
Melekhov
Contibutor Contibutor
Contibutor

10. Q&A