[maemo-developers] Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

[From: Simon Pickering]

> About silence, in fact a lot of it has not to do with confidentiality
> but lack of priority (or too many top priorities in the hands 
> of us able
> to respond). 

Sounds promising :)

> What about a short term plan with common objectives:
> 
> - Raise in a structured way the topics that matter to you 
> where you feel
> there is a lack of response from Nokia. Now it is difficult to follow
> everything even to people like me spending a lot of time here, leave
> alone the average lead developer, project manager or product 
> manager in
> the house.
> 
> - Tag silences i.e. ToDo (answer will come when we have 
> time), Planning
> (still undecided, working on it), Later or Depends on XXX 
> (other events
> need to come first), Confidential (the stuf we really cannot 
> talk about,
> probably less than you think).
> 
> - Prioritize the items you want answered first.
> 
> Proposal for actions:
> 
> - Niels (web tools), Dave (web content) and Andre/Karsten (to be
> introduced officially as bugmasters) are your kind of representatives
> and they have lots of hours funded by Nokia to work for you. They are
> the ones prioritizing the tasks that are relevant to the 
> community. Make
> sure they see how important is the thing you want to push. 
> Avoid private
> communications unless your stuff is private: lobby here, in 
> bugzilla, in
> planet maemo...
> 
> - This prioritization should be visible somewhereand people should be
> able to impact it directly. Someone proposed to have some kind of
> ideastorm where the community could make visible the stuff that really
> matters. Voting bugs in bugzilla kind of does it but kind of 
> not. Let's
> work on this, starting soon and simple - then improve. Give us the
> hottest topics in the main areas and let's concentrate on those.

What's the easiest way for you chaps to look at the points we bring up? Wiki
page? Or a similar process to the original roadmap items - we email the list
succinctly with a question and the item & information are placed on a locked
wiki page for all to see? 

>From my point of view, there are probably 3 lists that we as the community
should be providing here. They may or may not be interlinked, but I think
they could probably be handled separately if that would make life easier:

1. Items we'd like to know the status of (e.g. SBC DSP task, IVA, PowerVR)
2. Things we'd like to see open sourced and a reason why (e.g Hildon
desktop, RSS reader, BME, DSME)
3. Other miscellaneous issues to be addressed (library versioning and
request for specific libraries to be bumped, though this might make more
sense for the bugtracker?)

My interest is mainly in the first two, so I have probably neglected the
last one.

Cheers,


Simon