On Monday 19 January 2009 11:53:45 Aniello Del Sorbo wrote: > What SMB would be useful for is sharing data with a network drive. > They usually share the disk via SMB, NFS or AFP and, as far I know, > Maemo, starting from Fremantle, does not deploy any of those clients.
Samba would be an ideal opportunity for Nokia to consider helping" a community add-on (I would have said "support" but that implies bug fixing, which is not what I mean). Given that the community exists, with a single place to go looking for stuff, there is an ideal way for Nokia to provide useful features without having to commit the resources to test and support them indefinitely. Nokia "help" for a community package for Samba (or NFS or AFS or...), fully integrated into the Maemo environment, could be expressed in several ways. For example, some Nokia employees could be paid to spend some of their time on the project (wouldn't it be great if the Maemo team were allowed a Google-style 20% time to spend on community projects), or Nokia could help with testing or contribute resources to the upstream project or something. I know Nokia marketing has been looking for innovative and sexy projects, which can show off the features and lifestyle of the new tablet, to help. But this can also be a useful tool for those more mundane features which aren't necessarily hard to implement but which consume an unreasonable proportion of testing and support (like remote filesystems). In exchange, Nokia would get a useful feature, with no support commitment and would also be able to measure just how important users think the feature is by measuring downloads. At a minimum, I hope Nokia is providing any code, test scripts, etc. they developed while they were supporting Samba to the community so that they can be used if someone else picks up support for it. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
