Sadly, not everyone reads, or understands, such warnings. We've been down that path with the MicroB beta, the OS2008 beta, and the Modest beta. And that was in the days when this site was entirely populated by super Linux hackers and developers. Or so I'm told.

Even now, simultaneous with the cries of "stop the overblown, boogieman warnings about Extras-devel" we also get posts condemning those "horrible developers" for putting untested code into that repo. Head or gut? Either way, you're getting hit.

I'd like to see more open beta testing of Maemo software too, but I can understand how the very thought might give Nokia's lawyers the willies. I'll just keep hoping they can slowly adjust their internal processes to support smaller, more modular updates.