Thread: Closed Source Packages in Maemo
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2009-09-25 , 23:08
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#163
Originally Posted by qole View Post
Well, actually you need two key things that have been poorly done, or missing entirely (in the past) from Nokia's open source attempts:
1) release early and often (no hiding code in between releases!)
Actually, I very solidly disagree with this one.

The worst thing about most open source projects is that their release engineering and release cycles are abysmally immature.

"release early and often" == "no one with more than 3 functioning brain cells should depend on this software for anything useful".

Release when stable. Release when there's a point to the changes being distributed. Release when the release has matured and been vetted.
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