For lack of a better word.

How old is it? What is the point of a bug tracking system where you have to search for problems instead of reading about them? A person should just be able to hit Bugzilla on the Maemo homepage and see a list of bugs. That way, issues that need fixing get visibility. Look at the tracking system that Ubuntu has with Launchpad. Excellent. Flexible. USEABLE. Even Android has a bug tracking that blows Maemo's out of the water and it is less than a year old!

Even Bugzilla itself, in its latest incarnation by Mozilla is easy to use. Why must Maemo's be so convoluted and purpose-defeating? You click on Maemo's Bugzilla link and it brings you to a page where you have to SEARCH for issues? What? How does that accomplish anything? Bugtrackers are there for a reason. Visibility, collaboration, and quicker resolution. Ours is akin to going "Hmm, I wonder if the ssl package in Diablo crashes MicroB whe you visit pages with Javascript? I think I'll search for it. That is bass ackwards.

Oh, and what is it with all the Maemo future development projects in the garage closed to the general populous? Are you guys sharing porn and warez in there or something? Development should be open. Open development invites more innovation, better quality if finished product, and a fuzzy feeling.

One last thing. Don't hide or password-protect your development repositories. That is idiotic. If you don't want the public seeing your unfinished product, then why is there even a repo out there? It's like your cooking steak, it's not done yet, but everyone can smell and anticipate it and may even have some insight as to what seasoning to put on it or what that weird black spot on it is, but the grill is closed and locked.

If you want to help Maemo fulfill its potential, stop putting up roadblocks. If someone says package0.4_beta.deb doesn't work and wants tech support, simply point out that it says beta and tell them to use the non-beta version. Kind of like how car dealerships won't deal with a broken car that was broken because the owner modified something that had something to do with it breaking.

So, a rundown:

Make Bugzilla something useful by letting us see bugs
Stop being so secretive about development software in the garage. Let us torture it before the public gets ahold of it and finds out it sucks. An example being the A-GPS app. Why can't I zoom? Can I close it after I've selected my target area? What exactly is the packet data option's use? The preferred connection box is always greyed out. Does it even have a purpose? Does this thing even actually do something other than make me keep reconsidering exactly where I live and tinkering with it to distract me from how long GPS takes to get a fix in KANSAS!?

One last thing...Apt-get is supposed to solve dependency hell by getting dependencies for files you want to install. Why doesn't the package manager do this for me? A lot of stuff is non-installable because...you guessed it...missing dependencies! Well, then, why don't you go get them for me so I can stop being frustrated that I can't find your specific version of glib or whatever?

Hasn't this been brought up before?

Fix these things. Right now they are a waste of resources.