[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Re: Maemo roadmap, SDK improvements...

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 18:47 +0200, Quim Gil wrote:
> We are starting to have some material to populate the updated roadmap.
> One question that arises is the structure of the roadmap itself. Do you
> have any suggestion? URLs of roadmaps you like and find really useful?

We really need to know about the development that is happening already,
if we are to have much chance of taking more part in development in
future. We need a module list, with details about the relevant branches
in svn, like GNOME has:
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/MaemoModules

Most of this isn't secret. It's just obscured unnecessarily.

A reference to the last time I whined about this:
http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2007-January/007710.html


> The default possibility is to have 3 or 4 columns:
> 
> Platform | SDK | Applications | Other
> 
> (Still thinking if it makes sense to have a column for the SDK alone)
> 
> There will be also a separate Wishlist in order to distinguish maemo
> commitments (roadmap) from other desirable improvements (wishlist). The
> idea is to have in this wishlist requests with a clear community backing
> that require time to decide from our side. This way Hanno doesn't need
> to send us multiple forms, and we can acknowledge there feature requests
> that make sense, even if we don't or can't guarantee whether we are
> going to commit to them.
> 
> We hope this helps improving the collaboration and the focus on future
> plans.
> 
> On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:59 +0200, Gil Quim (Nokia-M/Helsinki) wrote:
> > http://maemo.org/platform/docs/roadmap.html 
> > 
> > This page needs an update. I will help getting this page on shape.
> > This update is also a good opportunity to discuss possible futures.

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