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

	danramos	2010-05-03 , 23:33
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Originally Posted by Stskeeps

So, I'm also distmaster for N900. However, the day I became distmaster, I haven't focused on any other hardware than 770, N8x0 and N900. There was the Maemo-on-OMAP project, which was more of assistance to a TI contact to make it easier for developers so they could develop for Maemo without getting a N900. Worthwhile cause to help get developers towards the platform?

Absolutely. And the entirety of your answer satisfies me somewhat.

Originally Posted by Stskeeps

I understand that you feel like that and why. However, we're here now. And I'm wondering how we should go forward - how would you like to see your N8x0 in 3 months?

The fact that you even bother to ask that question from a user is, itself one of the CORE problems I've had with my experience on the N8x0 with Nokia--that is, the fact that a supposedly OPEN device (which it turned out, wasn't so open after all) never got that questions asked very much at all by Nokia or the developers at Maemo.

So, you're already improving my opinion by asking.

Where would I like to see my N8x0 in three months? I would like to see at LEAST a rudimentary but usable operating system that I can use for even just at least simply GUI and CONSOLE applications. A full and updated kernel with a very minimal distribution and optional installable services is worth more to me than fancy shmancy GUI. A useful minimalistic device within three months is better than a pretty one that can't even install third party apps the way Mer ended up. (I was very disappointed when I couldn't find ANYTHING to install.)

Originally Posted by Stskeeps

I think kernel code was probably the least worked area in Mer.

That kills me. Why??

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