Forgive me for quoting the person I quoted, my statement isn't directed to that person at all; however it's a general inquiry where I'm either overlooking something or totally oblivious to something. Neither is new to me.

However... if the community can make Maemo, any iteration of it, as polished as they wish it to be; why is it not as polished as some members would want it to truly be? The problems are very minor, you can overclock it for a better experience, change the transitions... but those aren't really polishing as much as helping the platform along.

To me, polishing would be... well, eradicating the existing bugs that are hampered with WONTFIX tags. Hit Bugzilla if you're missing my point on that. Or... totally changing the UI, to make it leaner or more versatile - the recent ApMeFo is a great example of this in motion. But those level of apps are far and few in-between. And the bits that really need polishing - incoming phone call, look at in portrait and that delay for instance - will more than likely never happen because that bit is closed.

So how can this community really polish Maemo 5 when the parts that need it the most - besides Modest - are really closed?