[maemo-developers] Transitioning to the new package categories

[From: Ryan Abel]

I've been waiting for Nokia to ship the new package categories in a  
Diablo update to begin spamming maintainers to start transitioning to  
the new list, but as it seems clear that this list will never ship for  
Diablo, there's no point in waiting any longer.[1][2]

I'd like to propose that we start actively transitioning to the new  
categories in the beginning of May (maintainers are encouraged to  
update before then, especially as it has the potential to spare you  
from a bit of spam ;)). Since a lot of spam will be going out anyway,  
we might want to consider using it to address some other packaging  
issues at the same time. Primarily the use of Maemo-specific fields,  
but also, potentially, a general auditing of all packages in Extras  
(the metrics for which will have to be put together by somebody more  
experienced with packaging than I).

So, does the transition and the timeframe sound good to everybody?  
Does the auditing sound like a useful endeavor? If so, what sort of  
metrics should be used?

[1]http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories
[2]https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3836#c11
[3]http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/packaging-stable.html


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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council member