Thread: Half-year review of Stskeeps's work as distmaster
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2010-04-30 , 12:34
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
Someone implied that some criticism has been less than fully informed.
At least I hope with this thread to help inform why, how and where things were the way it is.

The point was made that the community wasn't very involved in the development of Mer and thus shares some responsibility for its failure.
Probably so, but I don't think that a good job of momentum-building was done. I remember personally expressing skepticism at whether it was necessary to stop everything and wait for the two drivers. There were other delays that seemed mysterious to me. Once it became clear how great Mer's potential was, there must have been greater and greater willingness to help out.
On the other hand, maemo.org community was traditionally that of application developers. I've said at some point that OS developers came to the community, had their patches ignored in bugtrackers, no management of contributions, left again - Mer helped organise these contributions better.

I don't see why Nokia would cry when tablet owners were essentially smothered by those with other preoccupations about the N900 or MeeGo. The renaming of ITT was not just some isolated decison and neither was the foundering of Mer. They were all part of a reallignment of power in favor of the one who was paying the bills.
I've myself said that we needed to get the community prepared for the influx of a lot of interested users, contributors, etc. It wasn't handled too well in my opinion and it scared away people who made out the backbone of the community from this place. The realignment of power thing I really don't have words for commenting on, sorry.

That was not your fault; maybe it was inevitable as soon as the true interests of those with internet tablets acquired second-class status.
It's a sad fact, but they are second-class hardware - first-class hardware is something like the N900. Now, what we do with them is what matters..
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