[maemo-developers] Community Maemo distribution

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Oct 6, 2008, at 6:23 AM, Quim Gil wrote:

> Note that what needs to be build is less of "one community edition"  
> and
> more of an mechanism to create editions, or "variants" as we have been
> calling them at http://wiki.maemo.org/Objective:Maemo_variants . Am  
> I right?

I'm less interested in enabling variants than shipping a distribution  
that lets users configure things how they want. The process to get to  
that point is going to open doors to other variants, but it's not my  
primary goal.

More variants mean more fragmentation, which isn't a necessarily a  
desirable outcome. I'd rather have a flexible community edition that  
allows users to easily change their desktop environment if they wish,  
rather than focusing on putting together a process for someone to ship  
a "Kaemo".

This is only my own opinion (and not a particularly strong one at  
that), though, and I may not be seeing the whole picture. Feel free to  
convince me otherwise.

--
Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair