[maemo-developers] Hildon upstream development

[From: Cornelius Hald]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 15:22 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> 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.

They could. But is it likely?
Hildon and Gtk are very important pieces and if something breaks almost
all applications including Nokias own apps will suffer.

All in all it doesn't make sense to push new widgets into Hildon if it's
then impossible to get it on all devices.

Quim and Claudio what's your view on that?

Conny