[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:44 +0200, Vollmer Marius (Nokia-D/Helsinki)
wrote:
> "Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <Kimmo.Hamalainen at nokia.com>
> writes:
> 
> > What prevents the community from releasing this "unstable" libhildon
> > before Nokia does the "stable" release?
> 
> The unstable release would not be of much use since people can not
> easily install it on their devices.

I don't understand, wouldn't the forked/new widget library also have
this same problem?

> Right now, we have a very strict division between packages that are
> released by Nokia, and the rest.  You can not update a Nokia package
> from the outside.

You could put this "unstable" version to some "non-Nokia" repository and
distribute it easily enough. It's understandable that the "Nokia repo"
would not have it before a stabilisation period because it could break
existing software.

> At least not without making it terrible obvious that it is not just a
> mistake.  If 'everybody' agrees that, yes, let's release updates to
> libhildon1 from Maemo Extras, then it can be done.
> 
> But right now, I would say that this is far from business as usual.
> That's why I am emphasizing this.  Would be cool if it becomes business
> as usual, of course.

-Kimmo