So the Meego community has released a new "roadmap" In it I see references to version 1.2 (now at or close to feature freeze) and 1.3.

Earlier this week we happened to get a peak into a supposedly confidential internal memo that painted a disappointing picture for Meego.

My question is this. When will the Meego community achieve a release that is suitable for every day usage by semi ordinary users ?

Prior to the release of Meego 1.1, I thought it was going to at least be something to "play with". Ie it would be semi usable for people who didn't mind suffering through updates, bugs, etc. Kind of like a Fedora rawhide release. IT wasn't. It turned out to be nothing more than a terminal.

I've been watching the Meego 1.2 efforts and I don't see that 1.2 does much of anything yet again for the end user.

Aside from looking at Bugzilla entries, where is it stated exactly what Meego 1.2 and 1.3 are supposed to do ? Ie, where are the deliverables for these milestones ?

It seems that the 1.0 and 1.1 releases consisted of exactly what got (mostly) done (and not yet fully debugged) when the milestone freeze date rolled around.

If I was a leader at Nokia, I would march over to Redhat and drag them into the Meego effort. They know how to develop OS software and work with communities. Nokia seems to be floundering around literally aimlessly !

PS: don't give me the "release early and release often" line. That only applies when there is actually something to release.