[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Too busy to accept help?

[From: Carlos Guerreiro]

ext Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Murray Cumming schreef:
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>> I'm not seeing any significant improvement to this situation, and
>> Nokia's developers seem no less busy. So I'm still wasting time chasing
>> incredibly minor patches.
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>> I still think a dedicated empowered community liason would fix this.
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> A liason that actively comminucates, instead of passively. Things like herring are a great
> initiative, but if it's only mentioned on IRC after some questioning it will never be of
> great value to non-developers.
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Hi Koen,

Herring will be announced soon during the next few days, once the 
repository is minimally ready. Please be patient.
For those who cannot absolutely wait  here's a few words about herring, 
which you can find on http://sardine.garage.maemo.org/about.html


      Herring

Sardine will always contain the latest component versions. However, in 
order to make releases it is necessary to feature freeze the software 
and concentrate on polishing, bug-fixing and otherwise stabilizing the 
code. Doing this without stopping forward development requires branching 
off the code. This is done in the revision control system, component by 
component as it becomes necessary. When components start branching in 
the revision control system the Sardine distro branches as well: a 
separate stabilization distro is created.

The current stabilization HAF distro is Herring. _Please note that the 
Herring is still under construction but should be available very soon_

We are preparing the herring repository here:

    * deb http://repository.maemo.org herring main non-free

However, I wouldn't encourage anybody to try it out just yet, it's just 
not ready.

Br,
Carlos