As an application developer making heavy use of Extras, I really hope that Extras will be enabled on the devices by default. Several really usable applications are available from Extras. If quality is a problem, we can always modify the "rules" of the Extras QA process (more than 10 votes, stricter rules, etc..). As already pointed out several times in this thread, right now the Extras QA process seems to yield better and more stable apps than what comes out from the Ovi QA process at the moment. The process is also more transparent and easy to grasp for developers. Shortcomings of the process can be fixed by modifying the "rules" - we can't really do much about the shortcomings of Ovi until Nokia decides they want to change something (and we don't really want to wait until that happens?). If you are not going to enable Extras by default, please make sure that Ovi Store is on par with Extras feature-wise. This means support for Python applications (PySide, PyGame, ...), SDL games (+OpenGL ES 1.1 games that don't make use of Qt) and everything else that's not built with The One True Toolkit in The One True Language using only The One True API (AFAIK Ovi only supports Qt apps written in C++, and no other APIs than Qt Mobility + whatever "stock" Qt offers). Isn't the community-driven Extras repository something that positively distinguishes the Maemo platform from the rest? If so, why *wouldn't* you want to enable it out of the box?
...If you are going to enable Extras by default, please make sure that Ovi Store is on par with Extras feature-wise. This means support for Python applications (PySide, PyGame, ...), SDL games (+OpenGL ES 1.1 games that don't make use of Qt) and everything else that's not built with The One True Toolkit in The One True Language using only The One True API (AFAIK Ovi only supports Qt apps written in C++, and no other APIs than Qt Mobility + whatever "stock" Qt offers). Isn't the community-driven Extras repository something that positively distinguishes the Maemo platform from the rest? If so, why *wouldn't* you want to enable it out of the box?