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Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
I had a dream. In my dream, we were not thinking in terms of garage, git, svn, t.m.o., bugtracker links, screenshots, icons, but we had Maemo Groups. A group could be centered around anything, but most often these were applications. Users could see pointers to all the resources related to that group, regardless of where they're actually kept. No traversing t.m.o. to see if there is a thread about it, no hunting for bugtrackers, source repositories, mailing lists, reviews, screenshots, cauldron lists, testing status, whatever.To reitate, it's not about integrating everything into a single site, it's about having a single place where people can find out everything about a project, *regardless* of where it stores it's resources (google code for source, b.m.o. for bugs, launchpad for tasks, t.m.o. for feedback = 4 different places supporting one project ? fine !). The same place could be used to administer maemo specific aspects of projects ((re)set bugtracker links, screenshots, icons, etc).
That's what i'd like to see, too. It was sort of the idea behind my "official thread" request for devs in the Games forum (e.g. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40903), but to work right it really has to be a first-class citizen: it doesn't matter if it's implemented as a wiki, forum, or custom web app, as long as it is the first place people end up when looking for app-specific information, and has delegable edit rights (something a forum post doesn't have...but at least a thread does via replies).

While that would require some work up front, it actually reduces the load for the web developers and maintainers overall as the community developers don't have to spend time integrating some of the resources and can defer the linking of the relevant resources to the dev/maintainer, who can in turn save time by not trying to follow disparate streams and being able to delegate to fans in the case of really busy/popular apps.
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