[maemo-developers] Hildon upstream development

[From: Andre Klapper]

Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 14:19 +0200 schrieb 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?

Nokia could think about "Release often, release early" for hildon*. But
that creates additional workload of course.

andre
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