[This may have been better to post to the development list but as people are talking about it here I'll start here]
Hi, A number of people have been talking about the cool things that they would like their 'phone to do but after spending some time looking at the information available so far I don't see anything that suggests the current codebase will allow people the freedom that they need. If I take a simple example of an incoming call them some of the suggestions that we have seen so far to handle it include different ring tones for different people or groups of people, auto-handling of the call by sending it to voicemail or letting it through, different responses depending on the time of day, /etc. /The point that I'm trying to make is that there are a multitude of things that you /could/ do but each person will have a limited number of things that they want the 'phone to /actually/ do. As such, building out all of these options in to a single piece of code will not only be very hard to manage and maintain but will severely limit the ability of people to scratch their itches and develop code to make the 'phone do what they want it to. If the monolithic approach is out then some sort of modular approach is required. The most obvious example out there today is Firefox, which comes in a relatively simple base configuration but provides any number of hooks to allow people to write their own extensions on top of the base code and as such to alter the functionality of the product very extensively. If we want this openmoko to be as free as possible then it also needs to be as easy as possible for people to extend, and this is the most likely way of doing it. I know that there are a lot of potential problems that need to be addressed when building this out but if there is a vision from the start as to how this would work then it would go a long way to making the final product the 'phone that we are all dreaming of, regardless of the fact that those dreams are often divergent from others if not totally exclusive. So my questions are there plans to include these hooks, and if not can it be considered? Or is there another way to do this other than hooks? Cheers, Jim.
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