Good question.
I know that we have a ton of stuff in our forum and linked to wherever...
As far as Nitdroid and it's ilk ...especially for the n900 ..I must admit I haven't done a hell of alot of study concerning nitdroid on the n900...
nor hunted down all the varied methods...to know which would be best...
other topics ... n8x0 related I'm fairly conversant on...
I decided a few years back to knuckle down and read...read ...read...
it's taken alot of reading..alot of hunting ...alot of trial and error ..
I'm pretty much through the n8x0 device line in study...
and the last few months I have just started poring over the n900 ...all the cool applications...all the alt.wm's ...all the alt. os's and the methods of achieving the exact same result or better...or worse ...or just different...or obsolete..or abandoned ...but there is sooo much for the n900 too...to read through...to figure out...to study...
in a couple more years I should be fully up on my n900
...I could tell you then
My learning curve runs by this method for the nxx0 : I learn as much as I can about tried and true and successful methods and work my way down to the obscure, little mentioned, partial and finally methods with little to no success and reference.

I'm sure there have to be a few people here who know though...
but yea...good question.

Sure there is always google to find stuff inside and outside maemo.org and tmo...but...I also know from experience I have chased alot of stuff just as an example ...say on topic of booting some alt os or some wm ...alllll over tmo through multiple threads alone on the same topic AND alllll throught the web through multiple blogs, sites, archives, vague references etc. It can boggle the brain after a bit...just trying to track down hints or references that the "last guy" at the last place you hunted through refers to...sometimes to find something critical missing.... a page, a whole site, a referred-to program or fix or patch or whatever...
That is one of the reasons we need things under one roof I think...
to make the process easier...more fathomable...quantifiable ...
"the one-stop shop"...THE REPOSITORY of maemo works...
and to safeguard against the loss of the data, feedback, walkthroughs, programs etc...
That is why I personally think if a soul finds something outside the walls of maemo.org ...they should hang on to it ... archive it... safeguard it... however possible... until our organization decides what, how and where to deal with this stuff properly so we don't lose (in the meantime more) such invaluable work which has been done...regardless whether the project failed, was a partial success, or completely successful ...it's loss means a loss for us all.