I've been waiting for Nokia to ship the new package categories in a Diablo update to begin spamming maintainers to start transitioning to the new list, but as it seems clear that this list will never ship for Diablo, there's no point in waiting any longer.[1][2]
I'd like to propose that we start actively transitioning to the new categories in the beginning of May (maintainers are encouraged to update before then, especially as it has the potential to spare you from a bit of spam ;)). Since a lot of spam will be going out anyway, we might want to consider using it to address some other packaging issues at the same time. Primarily the use of Maemo-specific fields, but also, potentially, a general auditing of all packages in Extras (the metrics for which will have to be put together by somebody more experienced with packaging than I). So, does the transition and the timeframe sound good to everybody? Does the auditing sound like a useful endeavor? If so, what sort of metrics should be used? [1]http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Package_categories [2]https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3836#c11 [3]http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.org/packaging-stable.html -- Ryan Abel Maemo Community Council member _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
