[maemo-developers] Hildon upstream development (was Re: Community widgets for Fremantle)

[From: Quim Gil]

ext Claudio Saavedra wrote:
> Well, I would personally prefer to see more people involved in hildon
> instead of working on their own, specially now that there's clearly a
> gap to be filled between the toolkit set that Diablo (or even plain GTK
> +) has and what's part of Maemo 5 one. The only reason why these widgets
> don't exist is because no one has come up with a proposal and/or initial
> implementations on which to base on. Now that there's common interest, I
> think it's a good moment to let the work happen.
> 
> If anyone is interested in going through a more detailed discussion of
> what is missing in the toolkit nowadays, we'd be pleased to discuss it
> in the hildon-devel at garage.maemo.org mailing list. Also, remember that
> Berto and I will be hosting a BoF in the future of Hildon/GTK+ during
> the Maemo Summit, so the instances to discuss in detail and start
> working together are just right there.

Claudio is totally right.

Think also that as the Maemo team at Nokia moves their focus on platform
development from Fremantle to Harmattan, the Hildon maintenance and its
evolution next to GTK+ in Maemo needs to move to community development
entirely. This implies handling Hildon as pure community upstream
project in the context of GNOME (as we had tried in the past).

In order to succeed in this move it is important that all community
developers interested converge in the upstream project. We are also
looking forward to that BOF (or any discussion you want to start before)
to see what are the next steps of Hildon after the Maemo 5 final release
and the move to open development.

-- 
Quim Gil
open source advocate
Maemo Devices @ Nokia