On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Quim Gil <[email protected]> wrote:
> > a) What piece of software are you actually developing? Please provide > examples. > I can obviously provide only examples that exist for the N900 (imagine their equivalents for the successor). Thus, in no particular order: fcamera, easy debian, shortcutd, tweak flash version, power kernel, mobile hotspot, fmtxfaker, faster application manager, dreamremote, most emulators that require hardware-specific mods due to button/resolution issues, etc. These are all off-limits to MeeGo Extras as they are clearly device/vendor specific, and as is, practically none of them would be able to enter Ovi (even if it was free). Unfortunately, some of these also happen to be some of the more popular ones in maemo.org hinting that there is a serious interest in the general population. And if there is interest... > b) do you really need those channels at the level that they should adapt > to your specific needs, going against their own principles? > > ...of course they don't need to adapt, but then we're taking a step back to about 2007-2008 with all the wild-west of gronmeyer repos and the hunt for packages that make your device do what it was supposed to be doing in the first place. And the more repos people use, the less authoritative MeeGo Extras will be, far less that maemo.org's Extras is, as there will be 'wild repos' vs MeeGo Extras fragmentation right from the start. Whether that's good or bad for the principles of aforementioned channels and their long term success ? No idea. I'm just saying it looks as if Ovi/AppUp + MeeGo Extras < Ovi + maemo.org, for better or worse.
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