[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: Marius Vollmer]

ext Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra at igalia.com> writes:

> To be realistic, I don't think you'll have your library ready by the
> time Fremantle ships either, so I don't see that as a real problem.

The problem is that after Fremantle ships, libhildon is frozen for a
long time.  It is prudent to assume that there will be no updates to
libhildon that applications could rely on for, I dunno, 6 months or so.

> If I was in your place, I'd start by going the right way and assuming
> that everyone has the best intentions for hildon: just clone the hildon
> tree, put the widgets in place, work on your clone, get something that
> can be shown, file a bug. If for whatever reason these don't get merged
> or you see things going too slowly or too much bureaucracy, nothing is
> stopping you from diverting then.

This point is now.  I can tell you already now that things will be too
slow.  There is no point in finding this out the hard way.

> I don't see the need to divert before even attempting to join the
> project.

We need to find a setup where the community can contribute to libhildon,
and at the same not being able to release libhildon.

/me goes off to get some coffee and think while staring at the snow
covered Helsinki landscape...

Ok, can't be done in any sane way.  So my best proposal now is to create
a separate library for the community widgets, without any hope of ever
moving the widgets into libhildon.