The two best assets that come to mind:

o The maemo.org community itself. This forum, and their members and knowledge.

o The Debian packaging system, which, seen from a developer point of view, is almost infinitely more flexible than the RPM based one. As long as you do only autobuild uploads there aren't many differences (it's basically what RPM always do, in a way), but for people like myself who builds locally and actually set up the configuration there's a big big difference.

Unfortunately the plan is apparently to throw the latter one out with the bath water. The former should be possible to salvage.