[maemo-developers] Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Wednesday 24 February 2010 17:23:19 Ville M. Vainio wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net> wrote:
> > I'm not expecting you to agree but you asked why.  You are free to choose
> > that you will not support users running on anything other than the latest
> > OS. Just don't force the same decision on me.
>
> Not upgrading (again, barring regressions that are a sad exception) is
> a sort of statement about willingness to disconnect from the
> mainstream of community (their bugreports are worthless, they won't be
> checking out the new Qt apps etc). I don't think it's community's
> (here, I mean extras infrastructure) to keep catering for people that
> don't want to go where the platform is going.

That is completely different.  Maemo Extras is not about community members.  
It is about the hundreds of thousands of ordinary users of the device who 
don't even know there is a Maemo community -- they just want to enjoy the 
apps they can download to their phone.  

I don't make my apps available for community members -- most community members 
could do that for themselves -- I make them available for the people who are 
NOT community members but are just users of the device!  These are people who 
have never (ever) logged into a forum (yes, I realise that people on this 
list under 20 years old won't believe such people actually exist, but they 
do!).

They are the ones who won't see any point in upgrading.  And the ones I have 
in mind when talking about how Extras should work.

Graham