Wow, GA beated me at commenting here about that post.

Some hints to focus this discussion:

- This is about http://maemo.org/downloads being an original source for promoting software available or having multiple and eventually competing original sources like ITT software section in the way it is designed now. Why competing with maemo.org as original source. Why going for duplication instead of syndication.

- Creating a page for your app in maemo downloads (developed anywhere with packages hosted anywhere) takes what, 10 minutes? No signing whatever, it's a web form with a button to upload a screenshot. Update the info with a new release even less. Why a developer serious about his work wouldn't spend this extra time? Specially why not when doing this once the info would propagate top whoever wants to pick it up?

- This is not about Garage, take that word out of the discussion. You can manage your software anywhere. We don't want developers pointing users to Garage, period.

- This is not even about extras / extras-devel repositories since you can publish your software anywhere. Nokia will take more seriously the software available in extras as developers themselves take more seriously the fact of having the good and stable software available in extras. But this has nothing to do with this discussion.

I could comment more but it's either at http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//ma...ay/017783.html or in this thread. It's a bit of a pity that we didn't have this discussion before Reggie (with his best intentions, I have no doubt about this!) invested his time on this.