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2011-02-10 , 09:33
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Originally Posted by petur View Post
What I remember from the talk Carsten gave on Fosdem last weekend, is that Meego has already been burried under a thick layer of bureaucracy, and you shouldn't even touch it with a 5 meter stick.

After that talk I just gave up on Meego, the way they are treating it will take ages to get something reasonable out the door - no wonder the new CEO will probably kill it off.

And I wasn't the only one attending that talk that left with that feeling.
While I admit the talk wasn't one of my best (don't ever order Paella at a tourist trap restaurant), you're putting an interpretation on what I was saying and wording it in a way that makes people believe I actually said that.

The difference with MeeGo is that you -actually- see the bureaucracy due to the transparency (thanks arfoll). And I'm inclined to believe we might actually have less than normally since everyone's drawing on their experiences from other distros.

Let me see:

http://en.opensuse.org/File:OpenFATE...dling_flow.png - openSUSE requirements process (fairly similar to MeeGo's)

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Fact...elopment_model - release process (also fairly similar)

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packag...PackageProcess

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines

http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-checklist

In practice, this bureaucracy is what is needed to run a stable and quality Linux distribution and get releases out on time.

Only thing really added on top is the compliance stuff which is in it's early stages but needed to deliver on one of MeeGo's benefits, which is the promise that a MeeGo compliant app will run on a MeeGo compliant device. And that there's things to be solved (stating our faults instead of it being one big marketing slide praising MeeGo)

What other things would you like to discuss?
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