[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Taste the Herring!

[From: Carlos Guerreiro]

ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
>> Andrew Flegg schreef:
>>
>> > How far off is Bora? If it's next week, there's little point in
>> > continuing to port existing applications; if it's 6 months, then I'll
>> > carry on :-)
>>
>> You mean like the 'Roadmap' we both have been asking for in the past?
>
> I didn't want to use the scary "R" word, since tko confirmed there is
> no public roadmap to be announced. Asking, at least, when the next
> Maemo release is going to be should be independent of that.
>
> If Maemo is to be an open and community participated effort, rather
> than just an open source Nokia SDK[1], the leaders of the project
> (i.e. Nokia) need to start informing the community of their plans for
> the platform.
>
> Carlos' original email is a part of that, however there's no meat as
> to what will change (apart from herring-type HAF-level changes), and
> nothing at all yet as to *how* things are changing.
>
The documentation about what will change and how will come soon (matter 
of days),
you don't need to wait for Bora. Please be patient.

> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> [1] There's nothing wrong with an open source Nokia SDK - it's just not
>    what Maemo is pitched as.
>
Maemo was started as an application development platform, with SDKs 
released for
specific products. Many people who got excited about Maemo have wanted 
to see it
as an openly developed platform and so have many people inside Nokia. 
This has
influenced the Maemo message or at least colored how it is perceived.
Officially Maemo is still that, an application development platform with 
SDKs, but we
are experimenting with community development and eventually Maemo might 
develop
into a community effort.
I hope people will understand the difficulty of doing this, 
unfortunately it can't happen overnight.