[maemo-developers] Deleting Project PyGTKEditor from Garage

[From: Aldon Hynes]

I'm in agreement that this is part of the beauty of the N900 and believe that this really strengthens the community.  To the extent that we all have freedom about which developers we want to hang out with and where we want to share our code, we are stronger.

I should note that some of this depends on what you are thinking about as the definition of the community.  To me, the community is of people interested in developing applications for the N900.  This is a different community that I hope significantly overlaps with the community of people that participate on the maemo-developers list, the community of people that submit packages to mameo.org, the community of people working on MeeGo, and other communities.

Personally, I remain strongly committed to the community of people interested in developing applications for the N900, though for various reasons, I feel less strong ties to some of the other communties mentioned.

I do hope that Benoit will have a repository up soon that those interested in can use, just as I think it was great that Jeff  set up his mirror repository.  I also hope people working with other repositories will learn from Jeff and Benoit and continue to make further improvements in their repositories, processes and subcommunities.

My two cents.

Aldon

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> [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org]On Behalf Of ianaré sévi
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 12:21 PM
> To: Benoît HERVIER
> Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Subject: Re: Deleting Project PyGTKEditor from Garage
> 
> 
> That's the beauty of the n900, you CAN do exactly what you're doing,
> and the only consequence is some disappointed devs on a mailing list
> (IOW - none).
> 
> However, if you want to have your app included in the 'mainline',
> expect to suffer a little. But this goes for any large open source
> project. Take a look at getting an app into Debian, Ubuntu, or FreeBSD
> -- I have, and believe me Maemo is much much easier !
> 
> - ianaré sévi