That is scary :) I have never checked out the source code of any of them and don't even know who the FAP developer is.
I have to say that I like how the 3 of them work. If we are going to take on making a better tool we should aim high. It needs to be more than an "application manager" it needs to be a tool for the user to find and decide among all the applications available what he needs and, just by accident, install them. We need to have all the information about the application available (screenshots, score, repository, user reviews, # of downloads, ....); a very good search; and above all we need to have some service tracking what the user has installed not just to notify him about updates but also to remind him to vote/comment on applications that he has installed; A Donate button would also be great once we are there! The previous discussion we had back in September has a lot that can be used to write a spec document. The one we had not long ago about the donation button should also be a good starting point. The trick of course is to find someone, ideally more than one person, to take on writing the application, using whatever maybe available and is of good quality. I think money is always a good incentive but there may be others. Maybe we can get Nokia/Qt to sponsor a trip to some convention to talk about the initiative and show the results or simply offer some gadgets. Writing this successfully as a Qt application would be a nice showcase piece for Nokia/Qt and I think they would "appreciate". If not, we could start trying to collect some cash or just agreeing that there would be a "donate button" on the new "application catalog" app for the developer and "the community" would try to advertise it as much as possible. I don't know if any of this new app could be also reusable for meego but with a good design this could offer another good incentive for the project. Let's write the equivalent of an "app store" for open source projects or, at least, "not paid" projects. Felipe -----Original Message----- From: a.gra...@gmail.com [mailto:a.gra...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 10:29 AM To: Felipe Crochik Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles Hi, On 27 January 2011 16:25, Felipe Crochik <fel...@crochik.com> wrote: > Sorry if the question is silly but why do you think enhancing HAM is better > than creating a new application based on appdownloader, FAP and KISSTester? all I know is that all people I asked to, told me that they would prefer to have a scorpion in their pants, rather than touching the code of HAM :D So.. I think it would be better to write a new one (maybe based on the good ideas from the other three applications you said). -- Andrea Grandi - Nokia Qt Ambassador Maemo Community Council member website: http://www.andreagrandi.it _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
