[maemo-developers] Transitioning to the new package categories

[From: Niels Breet]

On Wed, April 15, 2009 11:18, Quim Gil wrote:
>

>
> ext Niels Breet wrote:
>> A request for a Maemo policy change has been requested a long time ago:
>>  http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Packaging_Policy_proposed_changes
>>
>>
>> There is no visible progress on that task though.
>>
>
> Ok, I guess we need to work on a new release between now and the
> Fremantle final release.
>

I think that would be a good idea :)

>
>
>> We've been discussing this out in the open for a long time, it is kind
>> of strange that the Fremantle team didn't do anything with these
>> categories?
>
> After a bit of research... actually they seemed to do something with
> them, even if not discussing publicly:
>
> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3844#c8
>

A good case to present to the people in power @ Nokia to push more
openness for things that are not sensitive.

We're flaming Nokia for not listening and it seems that wasn't needed.
This puts people in a bad mood, while there was no reason for it.

Cooperation with the community means that we also need discuss progress
and intentions openly.

Anyway, there seems to be progress!

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> --
> Quim Gil
> open source advocate Maemo Software @ Nokia
>

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Niels Breet
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