On Tuesday 15 January 2008 10:00:10 Eero Tamminen wrote: > There should be a draft of this, hopefully within few weeks. > Most likely it will miss many of the things people would > like to be there and has many open issues/TODOs, but at least > it's a starting point for discussion.
Excellent. I look forward to seeing it. > I think it's best to model things after Debian. I certainly think it is useful to learn from Debian. But this is a VERY different project: Debian is massive and has a lot of highly committed support. Some DD's are even supplied by open source companies. Maemo is a much smaller project and (judging by the projects I am involved with) has people who are smart and enthusiastic but with limited time they can spend on it. We shouldn't be adopting things just because that is the way Debian does things -- we need to look at pragmatic and lightweight alternatives in some cases to make the best use of the limited time of people we have available. We should certainly keep in mind the Debian models and try to make sure that we can move towards them as the Maemo community grows. So, avoid anything that will stop us adopting more Debian processes later. > A good starting point is running Debian "lintian" tool for the package. > This can be done on the desktop. I must admit I haven't tried it but I would guess it would throw up lots of stuff. As I said, this isn't debian and the same policies don't apply. > "Quality Awareness" lists some things that could be tested: > http://maemo.org/development/documentation/how-tos/4-x/quality_awareness.ht >ml This is a good list of things for the developer to test. But I do not think the gatekeepers will have the time or resources to do this. They should be looking at doing 3 or 4 things drawn from that list. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
