[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: quim.gil at nokia.com]

> On Wed, September 30, 2009 10:47, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 05:25,  <quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:
>
> > Given the speed around which the colour picker discussions settled
> > down, and the fact it will iterate quickly once actually being used in a
> > real world app, I can't imagine working in upstream libhildon *and then
> > waiting for Nokia to ship that update* (assuming that it is shipped at
> > all) will be very effective at all. Unless I'm missing something and Nokia
> > aren't just willing to ship a libhildon update, but you're willing to ship
> > one when "we" (i.e. the widget developers and libhildon maintainers) ask.
> >
>
> Unless the SSU is being done at regular intervals, because then you can at
> least aim for a certain date. But even then, you would need to know if
> your updated lib will be part of the SSU in the first place.

Projects like GNOME or Ubuntu need 6 month iterations between stable releases. Would you say that 6 months after the Maemo 5 final is good enough or too slow?

Quim

PS: if 6 months to reach end users is considered too slow for an official widget that today is still under discussion then perhaps we need to re-check expectations based on real life examples?