That's the beauty of the n900, you CAN do exactly what you're doing, and the only consequence is some disappointed devs on a mailing list (IOW - none).
However, if you want to have your app included in the 'mainline', expect to suffer a little. But this goes for any large open source project. Take a look at getting an app into Debian, Ubuntu, or FreeBSD -- I have, and believe me Maemo is much much easier ! - ianaré sévi Le 24 mars 2010 13:08, Benoît HERVIER <kher...@khertan.net> a écrit : > Why are you saying that i m trying to divide the Maemo Community ? > > So Maemo is as closed as Apple iThings Store ? > We can t provide apps without the approbation of the community ? > > Uploading things to extras is a pain ... rules changes ... stupid > votes ... bug in the interfaces that noone take care... fixing a bug > for a package in extras could takes several weeks due to the QA > Testing process ... > > I cannot say to user to set extras-devel repository ... there is too > much package that can brick n900 device ... HAM ignore apps that are > in other repository if they are already in extras !!! So what ? > > I m a hobbist developers, i m doing it for free ... and today it s > take more time to trying to make packages available in extras than > creating new apps and implementing new feature !!! Why ... you should > try to found user to test your apps, answer to wrong vote, wait bugs > to be fixed in the web interface, and more ! > > So creating my own repository is the best compromise ... Today i ve > already delete my garage account as x-fade is now sure that i ll not > publish anything more on extras repository ... what you want ? if you > are not happy with that do not use my repository ... BUT STOP WHINNING > ! > > But i got so many complain about creating my repository that now you > win ... you know what ? Today i m writing code to create packaged > python apps for android, and i ll probably stop all my maemo > development ! I know that this n900 will made many damage to the > community ... but i was optimist ... i was thinking more users, better > for the plateforms ... failed > > Yes there is discussions, talk, brainstorm ... and other discussions, > emails on the mailing list but ZERO actions taken. This was my first > experience in an true OSS community ... but probably the last. > > FELICITATIONS you loose an other dev ! Your so closed mind IS DIVIDING > the community ! > > 2010/3/24, Frank Banul <frank.ba...@gmail.com>: >> One person setting up their own repository is hardly dividing the >> Maemo community, IMHO. >> >> Frank >> >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Michael Cronenworth <m...@cchtml.com> >> wrote: >>> Benoît HERVIER wrote: >>>> >>>> Once the package will be removed from extras, extras-testing, and >>>> extras-devel you will be able to install the new version from my own >>>> repository. >>> >>> Why are you attempting to divide the Maemo community? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> maemo-developers mailing list >>> maemo-developers@maemo.org >>> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> maemo-developers mailing list >> maemo-developers@maemo.org >> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers >> > > > -- > Benoît HERVIER, Khertan Softwares - http://khertan.net/ > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
