maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Half-year review of Stskeeps's work as distmaster

	GeneralAntilles	2010-04-29 , 16:03
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Originally Posted by danramos

May I counter that it might be haughty of you to presume that end users' experiences and opinions count for little to nothing in this conversation? What is the distmaster's point of existing if not to BE the distmaster of a dist (pardon my end-userness but I assumed, in this context about operating systems, we're talking about a distribution).

Why would it be haughty? You're clearly missing the thrust of the position if you believe end-users are frequently and directly affected in obvious ways by it.

Originally Posted by danramos

If he was platform focused, then which platform was he focusing on? I'm not sure I got the impression that he focused on any one in particular. Did you mean the 'maemo' platform or did you mean a particular piece of hardware platform?

Assuming the former, that appears to be all for nothing now--which also blows away your point about 'long-term'. Would have learned as much working with uLinux.

It was the Mer platform, which, stemming from its origins as Maemo Reconstructed is designed to reinvent Maemo in a way that's sustainable in the long-term. Effectively, it's the blueprint that MeeGo ended up using (unwittingly or not, I don't know). On the practical scale, many patches and architecture changes to both Maemo and MeeGo came out of Mer's requirements.

So, yeah, the long-term definitely applies here.

Originally Posted by danramos

Near as I can tell, it never got to a point where anyone outside of kernel coding could contribute anything worth doing yet.

Which comes from a variety of causes, most of them outside the control and, initially, the foresight of those involved in the project.

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