Thread: Maemo Missteps, your thoughts?
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2010-06-16 , 21:04
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
As I see it, MeeGo is a lot more exposed to the community that Maemo ever was or could be, precisely because there is not just one company involved.
Exposed <> open, supported, documented, backwards of forward compatible.

Also, you say it like it's a good thing. What exactly does the above mean to me, the end-user?

Originally Posted by qgil View Post
It would be good to hear the voices of these early adopters (or anybody else) and their concrete problems e.g. "In Maemo I have done A, B, C during these years and now I can't move forward to the MeeGo project because of X, Y, Z. Unless this changes, all my effort invested in Maemo is wasted in MeeGo."
That is an incredibly specific question. Bugs.maemo.org has a few answers of regressed functionality, but my focus is on the specific of the question.

Maemo has the same design guidelines as Maemo, and things that didn't work in M5 will keep on not working in M6. Reversing the statement and saying that what worked in M5 will work in M6 isn't adding value to the statement.

Additionally, while some people are upset about not getting M6 or whatever they are upset about, what I have a problem with is the apparent shift in development effort.

I know you fixed 100 bugs in M5 1.2, but out of those about 5 affected me and about 2 annoyed me. Outside those, I have about 20 others that annoy me, varying from WONTFIX to "NEW".

2 bugs in 6 months, and now the focus shifts? I'm worried.

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In closing, I'd like to state that I am aware I'm bitter. I am not a chronically bitter man. But things have been going from bad to worse.

I was pretty down with the litany of missing stuff from PR 1.0 and PR 1.1. I am not an expert, but people here on the forums, some old developers, lament the closed source, curse the manuals and some have even abandoned their applications in frustration, tired of guessing DBus, having packages break compatibility and lack of fixes.

And on top of that, every time I let out a scream and rant there's always someone who's been here through other OS releases saying this has happened again.

Want to cheer me up? Fix a bug in an application, release an update in -devel for that application so I feel like *someone* is actually working for me.

Even more? I waited months for that app store. I'm ashamed to even bring it up. Look over the fence. 150.000 apps and growing! Five million downloads! Me? I have 20 apps, 5 nice, with one being Fennec.

I thought my phone was broken when I saw a 1967 cartoon episode FOR SALE. And a desktop background! For sale!

What, Google Images broken?
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