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

[From: koos vriezen]

2006/10/21, Carlos Guerreiro <carlos.guerreiro at nokia.com>:
> ext Murray Cumming wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > I still think a dedicated empowered community liason would fix this.
> >
> Murray, you have suggested this before and we have taken notice. At some
> point
> that would most probably improve things and it might very well happen.
> However, at
> this point our difficulties mainly stem from internal development
> processes that are
> not well good at enabling community platform development.

I don't fully agree with this, Nokia isn't doing so bad IMO. First the
$99 campaign was a smart move to start up a community. The maemo.org
and garage are great infrastructures for developers. Scratchbox simply
rocks IMHO. And @nokia.com is often one of the answering ones on this
list.

> We are working hard
> to adjust them but this is something that is difficult to do within the
> constraints of
> product development and internal infrastructure. It takes time. Please
> be patient,
> things are improving at many levels.
> > As ever, I'm not complaining so much as trying to suggest how to make
> > things perfect.
> >
> Your suggestions and help are as always welcome and motivating.

May I humbly suggest that not only the haf is important, but also the
community applications may need some more attention. New releases from
Nokia almost looks like calling processEvents() on the community, apps
update/improve suddenly faster. Someone that pushes the community
other ways may do this also.

Koos