Hello all.
As you might have noticed, there didn’t happen much the last months. Here is the reason:
We can’t keep our Repo up-to-date by hand, because we don’t have the manpower for it. So we decided to make an autobuilder, which adopts the changes from the official Arch Linux Repo and tries to build the package. admiral0 actually already started coding, but…I don’t know.
Before we can do anything else, we need that autobuilder. admiral0 wants to code it in Lua, since it’s nice and simple. If there are any Lua-Coders out there who want to help us, just join us on IRC 
I have holidays quite soon, so expect something to happen in the background, and hopefully it’s all finished when my holidays end in september.
Greetings, naeg
Belated, i wish you all a happy new year!
The Christmas and New Year trouble finally passed, but we are still a bit slow and it happened not much lately. I will, however, try to package FSO again at the beginning of february, because I have a lot of exams in january I can’t find time before. And as soon as FSO is packaged, I will use ArchMobile daily as phone(hopefully), that means for you a lot of packages
We got some new developers, e.g. Nicolae, who also works on the sheevaplug, but he couldn’t put the stuff into the repo yet.
Also a SDK[1] for archmobile is being worked on by admiral0. The first release is already out[2] but don’t expect much. There are only little differences from a normal build, but it has a couple of interesting things in the feature plan. You can also get it from AUR . The package is called archmobile-dev.
I don’t know if you read it, but there was a interview with the ArchLinux Devs, and they even mentioned us 
http://www.osnews.com/story/22692/Arch_Linux_Team (second question)
- naeg
[1] http://www.archmobile.org/trac/wiki/SDK
[2] http://download.tuxfamily.org/admiral0repo/arm/
After a short time of inactivity, we are back at work now
The sheevaplug is now supported, we already got a WikiPage about it. (thanks to debio and niku)
The WikiPages got reorganised. There is one general InstallationGuide for installing ArchMobile on a SD card, and Pre- and PostInstallation Pages for each supported device, and a general one, which just tells what has to be done. Also there are device specific Installation pages for how to install on the internal memory.
Johh promised me that he will create a Wikipage about how to install ArchMobile on a n800, this was requested by some of you.
We are still struggling around with FSO, please be patient…
We got some new developers:
niku, who joined us as a dev for the sheevaplug. He already created kernel26-sheevaplug which is already in the repo, and also a new snapshots is available.
fritschn, who joined us as a maintainer, he already packaged alot of stuff, such as vala-terminal, tangogps, etc, and he also updated outdated packages, but it’s not in the official repo yet.
So, there were alot of changes these days, i hope i missed nothing
Due to the last few weeks we’ve managed to get a stable core of packages running. This was our main goal for the 0.1 release. However it hasn’t been released for two reasons: There’s still a bug left which should be fixed before releasing 0.1 and we might abandon the release concept in general and instead become fully rolling-release. Primarily because no one takes care of releases and secondarily because there isn’t really a use for them. Speaking in terms of release dates we’re having almost 0.2 ready and 0.1 isn’t released yet. This classification does therefore not represent the project’s status.
Additionally to the core of packages the extra repository has notably grown in size containing the basic X11 packages as well as the needed libraries. While those packages are not fully maintained yet they are working. One next task will be to assign maintainers to all those packages as for now phil’s maintaining almost all of them on demand.
From developer’s view there’s nothing missing which is vital for working on this project. There are still features the project would greatly benefit from, for instance a build host which takes care of automatically updating the repositories since at the moment this is done manually. But those tasks are not really that urgent.
We are very glad that there’s also ongoing community effort not only in using our distribution but also in supporting it. naeg has taken care of the mpd package along with its dependencies which is already in the official repositories and he is planning to create snapshots from our distribution shortly while admiral0 has managed to get the basic phone functionality working based on qtmoko. His efforts are currently in a private repository but we plan to get them into the official ones. Wiki pages describing how to test his packages will follow shortly.
