i guess a user often want to use apache-nuttx-external AND his own version. while you can always workaround it with symbolic links, i wonder if it could be more straightforward to use multiple "external" repos.
People have talked about this on and off for some time in various way. There really needs to be a better decoupling between the RTOS and the applications that run on top of it. I would think that incubator-nuttx-apps should be only an application framework with highly integrated apps (like NSH) and that ALL other applications reside elsewhere.
Taking this to the next step, this could involve some external repositories containing a variety of applications, original NuttX applications and 3rd party applications, along with some configuration tool to setup a NuttX userland. People, particularly Alan, has often advocated this as a "NuttX distro". However, I think the term distro alienates people. Let's just say repositories outside of Apache that integrate applications intothe incubator-nuttx-apps application framework.
There is a good spot at github.com/nuttx, but that is not currently in-use. It is currently just a free-for-all and not suitable for any critical software development. But I think we could tighten up the security there, add some automated testing, and create some kind of project structure to protect and maintain the repositories.
Ultimately, you are talking about another non-Apache project. That project would need some organization and support.
