There is no doubt that garage.maemo.org plays a key role in the maemo.org infrastructure. Even something as basic as registering to the website goes through there. But here we are discussing where the new work needs to focus and my only point is that I don't think garage.maemo.org needs to be in the focus. What it needs to do it does it already.
Two generic thoughts to put this discussion in a context: - It is fair to assume that active Maemo community software projects will point their trunk development to MeeGo as soon as it becomes a stable platform with devices announced. maemo.org will not the main place to think of developer novelties. - We should even ask ourselves whether Maemo/MeeGo are the places to host project infrastructure in the future. Maemo has such an specific API that it almost becomes an upstream of itself. However, MeeGo takes as a reference the Qt API that is by no means unique to MeeGo. The likeliness of projects choosing MeeGo as primary target but not the only one is high (Ubuntu etc for netbooks, Symbian etc for mobile...)