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tags: Replicant news, Paul Kocialkowski
date: 2015-04-06T21:59:16+00:00
title: What’s happening (or not) at Replicant
authors: Paul Kocialkowski
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Two months ago, I (Paul Kocialkowski) gave a talk about [reached milestones
and ongoing development on Replicant][1] at [FOSDEM][2], one of the biggest
yearly European gatherings of free software developers. I was thrilled to meet
people interested in Replicant there and pleased to chat with many other free
software developers, working on various fields. As usual, talks were recorded
and most of those recordings are now available on the [FOSDEM website][3],
with no exception for the [embedded devroom][4], where I gave my talk and
joined an [embedded freedom roundtable][5] with Carsten Munk from Jolla and
the attendance. A WebM version of the talk is available on the
[Conferences][6] page of the wiki.
Back from FOSDEM, most of my work was focused on U-Boot (the universal
bootloader) for the LG Optimus Black and Sunxi (Allwinner) devices. Things are
starting to look good on the LG Optimus Black, which now correctly boots
Android without random run-time faults. As usual, things are moving very
slowly due to the lack of time. The next step there will be to submit the
first batch of LG Optimus Black support for inclusion in upstream U-Boot.
The Replicant code itself hasn't changed much in the past months, since I am
focusing on bootloaders development at this point. In addition, Gitorious is
now closing down and while we have all the source code uploaded there backed
up, we're looking for an alternative solution that doesn't compromise on the
core values behind Replicant and offers significant guarantees. Because of
this situation, nothing is to be committed to the repositories before they are
moved to a new location, that we are yet to find.
However, some security updates were kindly submitted by the community and
those will be reviewed and integrated as soon as everything is back up and
running.
So hopefully, things will start moving faster in a bit!
[1]: <https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/replicant_embedded_freedom/>
[2]: <https://fosdem.org/2015/>
[3]: <https://video.fosdem.org/2015/>
[4]: <https://video.fosdem.org/2015/devroom-embedded/>
[5]: <https://fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/embedded_freedom/>
[6]:
<https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Conferences#FOSDEM-2015>
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