Thread: Projects Nokia should support (yours?)
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2008-11-12 , 21:05
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Originally Posted by Master of Gizmo View Post
So what's happening now? Will Nokia support anything?
The call for Fremantle stars was successfully completed on November 1st and we are discussing internally who are the candidates to support.

BTW: That page also contains the "remarkable maemo projects" page. Is that dead? Why isn't something like that continued? Asking people for "cool projects" every now and then but coming up with a new request each time and not continuing the old ones imho doesn't make much sense.
That page is maintained by the community and seeing the history doesn't look that dead. Anybody can propose new candidates and push it.

The Fremantle stars was a new call because it was not only about calling existing projects stable in extras etc but it was also open to new ideas feasible to be developed before the Maemo 5 release.

So will the list of those "star" applications be changed? Will things that don't evolve be removed and new ones added? Just a personal example: I have been asked by Quim and Nokia people to move my software into the extras repo because of that list. Gpxview now is in that repository and so are my new projects. And now? That's it? You really shouldn't ask developers to spend time on a certain issue if you aren't intending to proceed anything.
It was not only Nokia but the Maemo community who decided that it was a good thing to recommend everybody to move to extras: http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Consolidation_of_Extras

The time you put pushing your application (and dependencies?) to extras was well invested. Your users will be happy and other developers with similar dependencies too. Perhaps now the quality of your packages are better?

Nobody proposed you to move to extras and get a prize or something. Now you qualify to become a Pearl and appear in the maemo.org front. The move to extras was not a condition to be a candidate for Fremantle star.

These are official requests from Nokia and Quim even complained in the first posting of this thread about a lack of responses. Maybe this is due to the fact that Nokia doesn't seem to make much out of the results? Why should someone spend the time to list projects if the contents of such a list then just sit there and become outdated?
We never gave a date to announce results (unsure whether this is good or bad) but the deadline for proposals was only 12 days ago... The decision will be announced before the first release of the Fremantle SDK. We might contact privately some projects first to have an idea of the help desired and be able to do some planning/budgeting.

I really wish there were less requests like this and more effort to actually use the results of those requests.
Whenever we ask, we use those results. But you might have a point and perhaps we should be more precise on the outcome of such requests.

Or what were you thinking? If you have more specific complaints (like this one) please share them and we'll try to answer.
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