Thanks for the reply Andrew.<br><br>There have also been some discussion about the itTSS over at itT and basically, I hope what would happen is:<br><br>1. Developers can optionally list alphas of their apps at itT so users can be notified about them out and suggest features as well as report bugs<br>
2. Developers get it in extra-devel repos<br>3. Post .install at itT for further discussion as well as Maemo.org downloads <br><br>The main intention is to make apps more visible to end users and have them join in with the development by providing feedback. This would hopefully help developers more improve their apps as well as offer better IT software to the IT community in the long run.<br>
<br>I thought of adding this due to the successful involvement of the user community in improving Canola. I hope that developers can get the same level of feedback from the end-users.<br><br>Reggie<br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Andrew Flegg <<a href="mailto:andrew@bleb.org">andrew@bleb.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 5/20/08, Reggie Suplido <<a href="mailto:reggie@internettablettalk.com">reggie@internettablettalk.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> We have been developing the Internet Tablet Software Section for a few days<br>
> now and today, we are formally announcing it so Developers can start<br>
> uploading their apps.<br>
><br>
> What's different about the Internet Tablet Software Section?<br>
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Not to be rude but, really, is this necessary? We've already got<br>
<a href="http://downloads.maemo.org" target="_blank">downloads.maemo.org</a> which has the following advantages:<br>
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* Mature base of s/w already there.<br>
* Users gain karma for rating apps.<br>
* Devellopers earn karma for popular apps.<br>
* It's high profile and linked to from the default OS image.<br>
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Ideally, most of the time we'd be using App Mgr to find and install<br>
new software for the tablets; yet another downloads catalogue is not<br>
necessarily going to help the underlying problems with maemo software<br>
distribution.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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