On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:42, David Greaves <da...@dgreaves.com> wrote: > > np - I guess I'm a bit frustrated about the general lack of involvement in > this area :) > > I'm going to try and think about this whole area and write some stuff up - > any discussion is welcome
I've been thinking about this as well. I think it's time to revise the Community Repository Working Group idea again. My take on David's original proposal[1], a group sanctioned by the TSG: MISSION * To ensure a vibrant and quality area for community open source software. * To have at least one repository which contains software of such quality that vendors (such as Nokia[2]) who would be willing to ship it enabled on devices out-of-the-box. * To work towards having applications within the community repositories be able to be classed as "MeeGo Compliant". SCOPE * Management of the community OBS, the repositories it hosts, and the packages contained within it. * Policies and procedures (including QA) governing the repositories. * Align policies where possible, to ease the path for packages from the community repositories to the MeeGo trunk as well as application stores such as Ovi or AppUp. * Work with the compliance folks on an approach acceptable to all on third-party software compliance[3] TEAM * Niels Breet * David Greaves * TBC (a MeeGo architect) * TBC (a developer, like Graham Cobb/Shane Bryan/so many others) * TBC (someone to help with the work ;-)) This is a paring down of the original proposal, to concentrate on the core mission and with the aim of getting it officially sanctioned by the TSG. Comments, as ever, welcome. Cheers, Andrew [1] http://wiki.meego.com/Proposal_for_a_Repository_working_group [2] http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=56073 [3] This may be the creation of an "Extras Profile" which sits alongside the vertical-market profiles. Briefly discussed with Mark Skarpness at the Conference, the CRWG would then be responsible for drafting the compliance criteria (in the same way the Handset folk do the Handset Profile etc.). This would require extensive collaboration, of course - and is one of the reasons a formal working group is required. -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council member _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list MeeGo-community@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community