[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 15:18,  <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
>> No, you are right, it should not be hard to accept contributions to
>> libhildon.
>
> I agree. Maybe I'm wrong but I think Hildon updates are possible in
> Fremantle. As long as the new widgets make sense, the patches are good and
> they are well tested by the community and don't introduce risks or
> regressions... Why not?

Because there's a perceived *risk* of risks & regressions. How many of
our App Manager patches shipped to Diablo users once Maemo Devices had
moved on to Fremantle? None.

Is there any reason to suspect that the situation will be different
with Fremantle once Maemo Devices is pushing for Harmattan?

Community-maintained widgets need to be releasable and testable by the
community without Nokia involvement. Nokia are just too slow (and this
isn't *necessarily* a Bad Thing).

When the Hildon community takes ownership and responsibility for
shipping a Harmattanised Hildon, additional widgets can (and *should*)
be merged then. Hell, they can be merged before then, but whilst Nokia
controls the distribution of libhildon on Maemo, these extra widgets
should be in libhildon-extra (or whatever).

Cheers,

Andrew

PS. Posting rate not diminished now I'm not on the council ;-)

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