[maemo-developers] Announcing the Internet Tablet Talk Software Section

[From: Reggie Suplido]

Thanks for the reply Andrew.

There have also been some discussion about the itTSS over at itT and
basically, I hope what would happen is:

1. Developers can optionally list alphas of their apps at itT so users can
be notified about them out and suggest features as well as report bugs
2. Developers get it in extra-devel repos
3. Post .install at itT for further discussion as well as Maemo.org
downloads

The main intention is to make apps more visible to end users and have them
join in with the development by providing feedback. This would hopefully
help developers more improve their apps as well as offer better IT software
to the IT community in the long run.

I thought of adding this due to the successful involvement of the user
community in improving Canola. I hope that developers can get the same level
of feedback from the end-users.

Reggie


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:

> On 5/20/08, Reggie Suplido <reggie at internettablettalk.com> wrote:
> >
> > We have been developing the Internet Tablet Software Section for a few
> days
> > now and today, we are formally announcing it so Developers can start
> > uploading their apps.
> >
> > What's different about the Internet Tablet Software Section?
> [snip]
>
> Not to be rude but, really, is this necessary? We've already got
> downloads.maemo.org which has the following advantages:
>
>  * Mature base of s/w already there.
>  * Users gain karma for rating apps.
>  * Devellopers earn karma for popular apps.
>  * It's high profile and linked to from the default OS image.
>
> Ideally, most of the time we'd be using App Mgr to find and install
> new software for the tablets; yet another downloads catalogue is not
> necessarily going to help the underlying problems with maemo software
> distribution.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> --
> Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew at bleb.org  |  http://www.bleb.org/
>
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