Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Release Deliverables
• Release Milestones
• Target Environments
• Compatibility with Previous Releases
• Themes and Priorities

The TmL project provides support to integrate device and emulators into the Eclipse IDE and test enterprise applications using a simulated end-to-end environment.

The TmL project currently is the incubation phase and does not have a traditional release cycle yet. It is tentatively given a version of 0.1. The TmL project is divided into two main components: Device Framework and VNC Viewer. Device Framework is responsible for supporting emulators, devices and VNC Viewer is the libraries and plugins responsible for provide VNC connectivity. There is some momentum building on the project, with contributions from MontaVista and discussions with members from Symbian, Palm Inc., and Greensocs (DSDP VPP incubator project).

Currently, three engineers at Eldorado are assigned to the project (Fabio Fantato, Otavio Ferranti, and Daniel Franco). Eric Cloninger is the Motorola lead for the project to the Eclipse Foundation. Christian Kurzke was previously the lead for this project and still operates as the architectural advisor.

• Tools for mobile Linux source code release , available as versions tagged "dsdp_tml_release_0_1" in the project's
  • Device Framework CVS Repository ,
  • VNC Component CVS Repository , and

Notes:
All stand-alone components will have an integration part that makes them work inside the TmL framework. If necessary each stand-alone component could be used outside of the TmL.

The TmL team has created a 0.1 release. This release is used by several Motorola MOTODEV Studio products released in the Summer of 2008. If necessary, the TmL team will generate releases to coincide with the Eclipse Ganymede 3.4.1 (SR1) and 3.4.2 (SR2) releases. The TmL 0.2 release will take place in December 2008, containing an extension point change and a new feature that implements viewers for the Linux /proc file system. The 0.3 release will coincide with Eclipse Galileo in June 2009.

The target date for availability of Tools for Mobile Linux 0.3 is:

• Wednesday June 24, 2009 - TmL 0.3 Release date (with Galileo)

The Tools for mobile Linux Project 0.1 depends upon on the Eclipse Platform 3.4.

The Tools for mobile Linux Project 0.2 depends upon on the Eclipse Platform 3.4.1.

The Tools for mobile Linux Project 0.3 depends upon on the Eclipse Platform 3.5.

The Tools for mobile Linux deliverables will be tested and validated against a subset of the reference platforms listed in the Eclipse Platform 3.5 Project Plan (this list is updated over the course of the release cycle).

TmL 0.1 and 0.2 will be delivered using English strings.

TmL 0.3 will be delivered using English strings stored in external resource bundles. Strings may be localized to another language for 0.3, but this decision has not been finalized.

compatibility_with_previous_releases
Looks like a bug in the XSL?

Not applicable. No prior releases of TmL

Note: The TmL project team is working to move target milestones to coincide with the updated release schedule, as of September 22, 2008. The committed, proposed, and deferred items below will work once these changes are made.

Up until April 2008, the TmL team was working to make the original charter of TmL operational and usable in Motorola's MOTODEV products. No efforts were made to create an official release as there was no community interested in using it. In May 2008, the TmL team received its first outside code contribution, which brought us to the realization that we need to put what we have "to bed", as it were, and start planning for the future.

Release date was 10 October 2008. See the project page for download/update locations.

We wish to bring TmL into a mainstream project by being on the Galileo Simultaneous release. Toward this goal, we are getting build scripts running, creating update sites, planning milestones, and ensuring that the project is running as transparently as possible by transacting business in an open fashion, voting on project decisions via the portal, and conducting bi-weekly open meetings.

Discussing the architecture of TmL during the open meeting calls, one of the contributors suggested a different way to structure the architecture of the TmL components to allow for more flexible adaptation by companies adopting the project in their own products. The result of these discussions is a restructuring of the underlying classes to meet this new architecture.

This change will be implemented in release 0.2, currently slated for 27 January 2009.

Common classes, logging utilities , i18n, documentation, core APIs

Device framework

Device Proxy

VNC Viewer and protocol

/proc filesystem