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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
It's unfortunate that Nokia is choosing to ignore the community people with devices. That's a really strong testing base that they're giving up.

Nokia never has enough testers, mostly because their internal ones don't even come close to using Maemo like we do, so they miss most of the bugs.

Not like it matters anyway, since management and the UI team seem to be doing an amazing job of using the spec like some sort of massive sledgehammer to smash out anything approaching rational thinking.

Man Nokia's process is broken. . . .
If I may approach this with a degree of councilary diplomacy...

While I disagree with the word "ignoring", I agree with your root sentiments. I was frustrated that we were provided full sales packs with no apparent means of reporting certain issues with enough time for them to be corrected prior to shipping (hardware, sales packaging, etc). BUT-- if you saw on the community mailing list, Quim said that reports outside the scope of maemo.org Bugzilla can be sent to him for last-mile delivery. Not sure if he's prepared for the can of worms, but it was a decent gesture.

It would have been nice to have been offered access to interim firmware builds as well, with the stipulation that we show some caution in casual conversations, but it is what it is. Or isn't.
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Last edited by Texrat; 2009-10-22 at 17:12.