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Pimp my N8x0-Part 3 -Repos, Catalogues, Apps and Program Preservation Initiative (hopefully?)

In this post I've dealt with Gronmayer repos for OS2008 (alphabetically) which encompasses Chinook, Diablo and Fremantle.

For the OS2007 and OS2006 Repo lists which are predominantly for Bora, Mistral, Gregale, Scirocco, Herring,
I'll give someone else the chance to have fun hunting and noting which ones work and which ones don't for these ones...

So...yeah... Finally got to finishing this...
Took long enough in easter-egg hunting alone..
in essence what I did was ...
For starters...
to really take a close look at what catalogues on Gronmayers are working, which ones need tweaking, which ones are salvageable (when I say "salvageable" I mean you can still access, download and use said apps and programs...as long as the archived area still has everything there ...that is.....cool eh? :D) , which ones are gone but stated as functional and lastly ones that are just ...gone. possibly unrecoverable ...It took sifting through wayback for each problematic catalogue ...including hunting within archived sites just to snake around and find saved dates that contained all the possible needed info. I haven't gone Deepity-Deep-Deep into the Under Web ...but have gone deep enough ...with multiple engines hunting...not much that I couldn't find with the wayback...so to keep things tight...I used wayback for all examples to keep continuity...

I attached notes in the side columns with either alternate links....slight instruction for the new people...and mention as well if some catalogues are gone..

Whether some or most of the repos have either obsolete, conflicting, or apps and programs which cannot be found anywhere else...well....
I think that someone/ people with far greater scrutiny and official capacity should look and decide what is truly salvageable here and if possible finally just contact (especially in the case of catalogues I have exhumed from the graveyard... :D...) those parties and find out if it is alright to shunt them over to "maemo central" so-to-speak...instead of having individual's stuff fall apart slowly (or quickly...) and be lost forever...because they don't / can't privately host it on their sites any longer and shut their sites down.

Failing that...at the very least perhaps have maemo officials contact Gronmayer to ask to revise the page to reflect the true state of functioning and non-functioning catalogues.

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I know there are a handful of other catalogues and sites with apps and programs...and I'll toss them into the electron microscope here for examination soon.
In the meantime if anyone knows of any sites with catalogues, apps, and programs which have slipped the proverbial net...this is the thread for them.

The aim (to reiterate) is to see if we already have said exact external site data in our maemo catalogues/repos/extras and if yes it can be noted to "disregard" it ...otherwise we should try to preserve it in our repos (if permitted of course).
Have fun viewing / utilizing the exhumed catalogues...

Not to forget... n770, n800, n810 and n900 users please step up and help in the hunt, testing, official communication with the 3rd party app/program/repo owners...and hopefully migrating what we can into "maemo central" repos ...

Stuff like this really needs sorting out or it will end up being a lot of hard work on cool programs people at one time made ....
that just got lost or ended up being floating cadavers in the web due to inaction...
and that ends up being a loss for everyone.
That is the rough end of the stick if nothing gets done...

The good end of the stick is ...
If we can migrate even a fraction of the programs / apps (from here and elsewhere that we don't already have in extras/devel/testing ..)
then it will simply massively thicken the scope and breadth of available programs for our devices.(bonus)..not to mention what may be portable (or innovated upon for that matter...)up or down the device line subsequently ..(bonus)
A great deal of gain for very very minimal sweat ...(excellent bonus)

Merry Christmas Everybody :)

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http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...39#post1345839

Re: Repos, Catalogues, Apps and Program Preservation Initiative (hopefully?)

i think we may have something similar to the multiflash game package on n900. either that or i'm confused with n95.