[maemo-developers] Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
>
> We want to support a bunch of projects getting ready for primetime the
> same day maemo 5 is released. And we propose the community to help out
> selecting those projects.
>
> What kind of support? Whatever those cool projects under development
> need to be stable and exciting for real users. You tell us and we will
> do our best helping you.

It's somewhat facetious, but after some discussion in the community
one thing jumps out: we want the Application Manager to be such a
star.

>From the community point of view, the reasoning is clear: the
Application Manager, and the user experience of it and Extras will be
the first contact most end-users have with the "community" directly.

As a community, we're trying to firm up the rules on package
sections[1], and there've been some discussions with Marius to create
some patches to enable subsections etc.

However, it's not clear how much love Nokia are going to be putting
into Application Manager in fremantle and (personally) I think it's
going to be, more than ever, the most important bundled app with the
tablets.

The community *are* going to start providing patches, but having some
committment from Nokia to work *together* to make this the best app
would be awesome.

Cheers,

Andrew

[1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories

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