[maemo-developers] Hildon upstream development

[From: Cornelius Hald]

Marius Vollmer wrote:
> "Gil Quim (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <quim.gil at nokia.com> writes:
> 
>> 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).
> 
> But note that it would still be Nokia who releases libhildon.  After
> adding a widget to the libhildon sources, applications would still have
> to wait until the next official release of the Maemo 5 OS before they
> can use it.

Which is of course a major problem and exactly not what I want for 
community widgets. What can we do about that? Probably this is not going 
to change for Maemo 5, or is it?

Conny