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Hey, I didn't wanted to start any flamewar here - really. Also, I've - possibly wrong - took sethkha post as request for tutorial derived from documentation, rather than actual request for someone to maintain package created from his work.

in that case, I will help with pleasure - to be honest, for quite long time I wanted to learn repo mechanism (mainly due to many useful things scattered all over the forum, instead of sitting into repos) but I haven't had any thing worth putting there and i didn't wanted to "learn" on someone else code, that I don't understand fully.

As for code understanding... Concept of one people coding, and another - possibly don't understanding 100% of said code - maintaining repos, is quite ridiculous to me. Mostly, because maintaining dude have small to 0 chances of solving problems, if application fail to compile in autobuilder - fixing things in code, that normally work, but doesn't stand in line with autobuilder standards, IMO require coding knowledge, at least medicore.

Of course it's doable, with correct cooperation between coder and maintainer - but IMO, such communication "tunneling" may prove consuming more time, that would it be *if* Creator maintain package himself.

Of course, I may be wrong in some/all above assumptions, and there is nothing, that should stop us from checking ourselves. If you *really* want someone else to maintain package from your code, possibly breaking further updates sending (see odyssey for getting pali's versions of kernel-power into repos correctly...)...

@electroaudio
As requested, here is first link and first thing to do:

https://garage.maemo.org/extras-assistant/

Need to apply for upload rights. It will be granted in few days, at most.

In meantime, there are 3 buttons on the right side - "Maemo Package interface", and "Autobuilder instructions" - which point us to:

http://extras-cauldron.garage.maemo.org/HOWTO.html

Steps I've taken to find this? I clicked "Development" in main menu of maemo.org (that big thing at top of the page, You can see it 2 forum too ), typed "autobuilder" in search window, and clicked first result. Whooping 15 seconds. so, no, really, I think every developer is able to do it, no matter how much developing actual application take from her/his free time.

Anyway, I think we will just agree to disagree here, and I *really* mean no offense to Sethkha, nor I want to sound rude. Peace, and I'll be most happy to help whenever I can, even if we disagree at this little - and, to be honest, not most important - aspect.

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I'm quite sure electroaudio will make good sue of instructions, but after being back from the trip (I'm few hours before setting off) - i.e. on monday - I'll try to learn it myself also, so I'm sure together, we can put this round something into suqare repository

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This:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Uploading_to_Extras

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