[maemo-developers] Application manager categories for Fremantle

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Jun 2, 2009, at 12:13, Marius Vollmer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think it's time to define the Application manager categories for
> Fremantle.  This has been done for Diablo here:
>
>    http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories

Can we call this "Application Categories"? Since we are defining where  
applications go - not defining a category of package.
>
> and we should update that page to talk about Fremantle, too, or make a
> new one for Fremantle.
>
http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:fremantle_application_categories
>
> I feel that defining the list of categories is quite important and as
> long as I have something to say about this, I very much want to  
> prevent
> Nokia and the Maemo community going into different directions with  
> this.

I agree.

> So, here is a concrete proposed addition to the categories for  
> Fremantle
> that we would like to make:
>
>    user/sharing    "Sharing plugins"
>
> Jussi, please elaborate if you think it is needed.
>
> My position is that unless this addition is approved by the Maemo
> community (via the Maemo council), I am not going to add it to the  
> list
> of categories.

I too would like to get some feedback from the council on this since  
it will eventually go into Maemian and packages that do not follow the  
proposal will get a warning.

Jeremiah