Redesign restricted-manager code

Registered by Martin Pitt

The original code architecture of restricted-manager was very narrow, focusing on non-free kernel drivers in a Gnome application. A lot of new features have been bolted on this original structure, such as the KDE frontend, grouping of handlers, support for firmware installation, or non-free support packages of drivers which are free by themselves. This made the code very interdependent and hard to maintain/bugfix/understand.

We review the list of existing and proposed features and create a new code architecture which will be rewritten from scratch (with reusing most of the existing code modules, of course).

Blueprint information

Status:
Complete
Approver:
Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Martin Pitt
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Martin Pitt
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for hardy
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
None
Started by
Martin Pitt
Completed by
Martin Pitt

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Sprints

Whiteboard

jockey is in hardy, and being tested and fixed. Compared to gutsy's rm, the following things are still missing:
 - KDE port, Martin Bohm is working on it
 - broadcom wifi hander (easy to implement)

2008-04-18, pitti:
 - above two issues were implemented a few weeks ago, features in hardy (ubuntu branch) are on par with old restricted-manager
 - code is much more manageable now, has full test coverage (including UI), and much more modular
 - contact with other distros has been established (http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Driver_Backport), RedHat and SuSE want to adopt jockey, RH is actively working on the port and a network driver DB
 - code for network driver DB handling is implemented in 'remotedb' branch (not for hardy final, though).
This covers everything mentioned in the spec, so marking as implemented.

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