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or Extras-Hacking.

Why Extras-Hacking and not just extras-devel?
* They can leave it enabled to get updates (I sure hope people don't
leave extras-devel enabled)
* They know more easily what updates are tested and endorsed by the author
* We don't need to increase the frequency of sending people to the
wild-west of extras-devel with all the scary warnings.  Instead its a
"hey, there is this place with less polished apps"
* They will continue to have basic guarantees like the app being optified.

And probably many more that are escaping me at the moment.

> If we want an uncontrolled place for apps then we need the "extras-author"
> someone suggested yesterday.  There is nothing stopping us creating that.
> But, if we do then my prediction is that Extras will be dead within 3 months.
> If there is a place where user's can look for "latest and greatest" apps then
> everyone will enable it, developers will stop bothering to promote their apps
> to Extras, and a short time later, everyone's devices will start to die
> because the apps there are not optified, run down the battery, etc.

I don't know if I'd go that far.  The type of end-user who never
tweaks their device would leave the "high quality extras" around.  The
person who is disgruntled with the mapping solution and is willing to
use a less-than-perfect maemo mapper due to all of its features, then
yes, they will be using the "good enough extras". With the number of
people who unfortunately run out of extras-devel, I feel an "good
enough extras" would be very popular.

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