Thread: Restructuring the forum
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jalyst is offline jalyst
2013-01-23 , 15:07
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#35
Originally Posted by marxian View Post
So, the idea is to risk sacrificing our identity and the very things which brought us here in an attempt to become 'more relevant' (i.e. hitch ourselves to whatever is the latest bandwagon to come rolling along). No thanks.
I'm not sure how you're getting that, what don't you understand about what I said...

We should, at the very least, wait until there is something tangible to shift our attention to, and until that something can be considered a genuine improvement over what we already have. 18 months ago, there was talk of MeeGo being the obvious path for the future. Maemo was the past. Now we're hearing the same talk again about Jolla and Sailfish. In another 18 months, it could well be something else. It's folly.
Well I'm in total agreement that we need at least one of the nextgen Qt devices (most likely Jolla's Sailfish) in end-users hands before the debate/assessment begins.
Why does focus have to shift, who said anything about that, why can't there be multiple focuses (each dev/tester chooses their poison[s]) that are beneficial for the Qt biosphere as-a-whole?
This site won't have big backers for the foreseeable future, Jolla may not even be around in 1yr, becoming a "glue-like" community for FOSS Qt handset projects* is a way to bolster LT relevance.
Whilst also serving to enable far better coordination/cooperation between the different camps, and possibly even attain the Nirvana that is "wide-ranging API compatibility".
That one's always going to be a long-shot of course, but I think maemo.org's very well placed to be the conduit for that sort of thing, alongside qt-project etc.
Spreading it even wider to some of the HTML5-centric projects may even make sense LT, especially given that Maemo5-6x/Sailfish/Ubuntu/Plasma all have it as a secondary focus.
But that should be quite a bit further down the line IMO....

To be clear, I'm not against the discussion of alternatives. Quite the opposite. But I'm certainly not in favour of diluting the focus on the Maemo platform and devices, and therefore possibly alienating the committed Maemo user base,
Neither am I.....

*ones that are closest to being truly FOSS, which probably excludes BBX, but includes Maemo 5/6x, Nemo, Sailfish, Plasma, Ubuntu etc
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