----- Forwarded message from Devesh Kothari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---- >I am of the opinion that everyone MUST be advised to upgrade >Since >- it is a free upgrade >- Maintaining Maemo 1.1 and 2.0 which are incompatible is a big > problem (proposal is move Maemo 1.1 to archive status) >- It just causes confusion if Maemo 1.1 and 2.0 applications start to > coexist especially to the end user (Maemo 2.0 Application installer > would refuse to install anyway)
>From the 3rd party developer/Nokia point of view I agree, nobody wants the >overhead for now. And all kinds of rough edges are kind of expected at this >point, even if everybody is doing his/her best to improve things. >From a user PoV I'm doubtful. Current users want the applications, and there >would be a plethora of other reasons to be slow in updating. Think about other >platform products, like Red Hat, PalmOS, or Symbian, do they only support the >latest version as well? I think in the long run you need a process that takes >this into account. For this upgrade, I think you'd need a developer release at least 2 weeks in advance for a smooth transition. This could be different things as the critical thing is just a way to test that one's implementation of the new APIs works, as early as possible. A public beta of the production image could be a way to do this but it involves other overhead and would bring other benefits, like feedback from real users, more publicity, etc. If a smooth transition is essential in your mind you could even delay the production release. >So we need to come up with the concept of community contrib repository >where the 3rd party applications could be uploaded Something like all the repositories you can use with apt-get and sources.list on Debian? That could be ideal but making the maintenance smooth (everything needs to work with everything) is not trivial. Risto ................................................................... Luukku Plus paketilla pääset eroon tila- ja turvallisuusongelmista. Hanki Luukku Plus ja helpotat elämääsi. http://www.mtv3.fi/luukku
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