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2011-07-20
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This is an excellent start. From here, I see a need for discussion in two directions.
From following IRC discussions of Garage, I've gained the impression that the tool is a maintenance headache, and as I understand it, Gitorious is the preferred location for new projects. Are there many still active projects in Garage? Can they, should they be encouraged to move to Gitorious? How difficult is that? The features list for Gitorious doesn't include a bug tracker. If that's correct, that's one clear feature mismatch between the two tools, and how do Gitorious projects handle bug tracking? What about all the mothballed projects in Garage? License permitting, should their code be preserved somewhere if Garage goes away?
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2011-07-20
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2011-07-20
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Got it.
May as well shutdown the forums now then. Maybe whatever money "the community" can save Nokia on the hosting costs can be applied to other essential items to keep them going a little longer.
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2011-07-20
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- Downloads - mostly dealt with my the repos, but some things aren't actually software for tablets (e.g. tablet-encode)
- Bug tracking - actively discouraged for a while, people should use bugs.maemo.org
- News - poorly used, people's own blogs are better bets; but is there a good service for that? (I use madler's maemopeople.org myself)
- VCS - gitorious or github, but what if people prefer svn rather than the load-your-water-pistol-with-nitroglycerine of git?
- Documents - transition to MediaWiki?
- Forums - poorly used, AFAICT.
- Mailing lists - no obvious replacement. Is there an open equivalent? Google Groups maybe?
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2011-07-21
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Sorry, but i wonder if this was pure sarcasm, or You actually believe in what You've just said?
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2011-07-21
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#137
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Having just scrolled through two pages of non-productive crap, I suggest such discussions don't a) occur on this thread and b) maybe not even on this forum. Wherever you, lma and whoever else is adding value is.
People have had actions to come up with a suggested suite of tools as part of deprecating Garage for ages. Some features:
- Downloads - mostly dealt with my the repos, but some things aren't actually software for tablets (e.g. tablet-encode)
- Bug tracking - actively discouraged for a while, people should use bugs.maemo.org
- News - poorly used, people's own blogs are better bets; but is there a good service for that? (I use madler's maemopeople.org myself)
- VCS - gitorious or github, but what if people prefer svn rather than the load-your-water-pistol-with-nitroglycerine of git?
- Documents - transition to MediaWiki?
- Forums - poorly used, AFAICT.
- Mailing lists - no obvious replacement. Is there an open equivalent? Google Groups maybe?
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2011-07-21
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Don't ask me, ask Jaffa. Seems pretty straightforward to me. If we shouldn't continue discussions on the future of the community on tmo, as it is "poorly used AFAICT" per Jaffa, tmo is obviously expendable.
For the record, I believe ITT contributed significantly to the "community" despite the snr. TMO did as well. After the N900 was released, a lot of new people found their way to tmo. Unfortunately, this decreased the snr (the price of being less of a niche).
Oddly, it seems to me, the people who wanted maemo/meego to succeed the most, are those who despise the additional noise (consumers) that same popularity brings. Fortunately, Nokia has solved that problem for them.
And yes that was pure sarcasm. Get rid of tmo, and you would lose a whole lot of talent. That's ok though, it was routinely preached that the only people the "community" couldn't live without avoided the forums, and only could be found on the mailing lists. I'm guessing the only people this "community" can't live without is Nokia.
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2011-07-21
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#139
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2011-07-21
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#140
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You take Nokia out of the equation then what you are left with is pure software litigation aimed at what? so i can not see a community based on the latter in any size because the interest would not be there if development was not aimed specifically.
I think the area your wanting to go would not be the area currently being dealt with on this community today but rather a select group of developers that would take out the agro factor as the noise levels on here can be somewhat deafening sometimes i have to say.