[maemo-developers] App manager open development (was Re: Proposal for Diablo's authoritative list of package categories)

[From: Quim Gil]

ext Ryan Abel wrote:
> Yes, a structured plan with enough open-endedness to keep the creativity
> flowing would be best. A Diablo-based community branch (perhaps combined
> with osv-c) might be helpful as a test-bed for some of the wilder ideas
> before pushing them to the proper Fremantle development branch.

osv-c?

Also, would it make sense to have stable/unstable branches for
Fremantle? Ideally there would be a stable branch accomplishing all the
requirements and deadlines agreed with the Fremantle program, and then a
unstable branch installable and testable on the SDK. Relevant additions
and changes in unstable ought to be approved first internally before
going to stable.

In my previous email I forgot to mention the text strings. There is a
localization process that needs to translate any changes in NN
languages. Think it twice before changing/adding any text string and be
aware that at some point no string changes will be accepted unless they
are bugfixes.

Maybe Marius wants to consider following the maemo.org monthly sprints
to organize community tasks this way? e.g. Call for features to be
completed during the November sprint.

> Modest and MicroB (including the UI) are the two other products I'd like
> to see use this open development model though both are probably somewhat
> more ambitious is scale (though even more important than Application
> Manager as far as the basic user's trifecta). Modest, in particular,
> didn't seem to do all that well on its first run through as a
> Nokia-developed UI, and the community certainly has a few ideas for its
> improvement.

I would add the RSS feed reader myself...

But please create enhancement requests for the products you want to see
moving to open development, and assign them to me. We will discuss with
the related teams and see how and when would this make sense.

It was good to start with the AM in this casual way and it fits well the
purpose of a pilot. If we are increasing the list (and the shared
responsibilities) it is better to do it with some more planning, though.

-- 
Quim Gil
marketing manager, open source
Maemo Software @ Nokia