[maemo-developers] Fremantle Community SSU

[From: Matan Ziv-Av]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Andrew Flegg wrote:

>
>>> This is not a proper announcement for the SSU, but more of a prerelease
>>> before it's posted on talk.maemo.org, so please,
>>> do not post about this on talk.
>>
>> That does not sound right. It sounds like you are trying to split this small
>> community into a few communities.
>
> No, it sounds like getting proper experienced developer feedback when
> launching something which has real possibility to lead to a reflash.

How do you expect to get developer's feedback when you distribute 
binaries without appropriate source? Even if we ignore the GPL 
violation, it does not make much sense.

>> What is your goal in setting up this SSU repository?
>
> AIUI (and Mohammad has the full backing of this council member), the
> aim is to ensure that the community SSU is up and running to deliver
> bug fixes and improvements to Maemo 5 now that Nokia have (most

That's a reasonable and desirable goal.

Which leaves many questions:

How will included improvements be decided?

Will there be an inclusive policy - every improvement that someone is 
willing to work on will be included - or will there be a gatekeeper that 
will decide what to include?

Were this issues discussed? Were they decided?

>
> I can imagine a number of ways of getting involved if you want to
> help, including carving out a space on wiki.maemo.org to deal
> with/document the issues of and around:
>
>  * Release management - how does testing/QA/release work?

Shouldn't this be discussed, before being documented in wiki?


> I'd like to thank Mohammad again for his efforts over the last few
> months in starting this effort, and continuing with it now that
> PR1.3's been released.

Indeed, organizing and distributing is much harder and less fun than 
actual developing, so we should be thankful for anyone who is willing to 
do that, so I'll join your thanks to Mohammad, but will add a small 
request:

Please, don't upload binaries without uploading corresponding source.



-- 
Matan.