Considering this is the best avenue for freeing maemo and potentially applying it to pretty much anything.

And considering this is a topic that just isn't going away, it has been asked, floated around for years and years and years...
and many, many people want it...

And considering doing so would extend our beloved platform lifespans massively into the future...

We really should...
As a whole community...
bend all our attention,
focus all our gazes,
throw all our best at this...
and finally do this.

If anything at all is done on the topic...

It should be tweaking and fine-turning mer and / or maemo 4 and / or maemo 5 ...
and plant it firmly on top of a bunch of proper "Respins" based on a stable rolling releases.
antiX, lmde2betsy, solydx/k, siduction are the best examples of ones I would aim for...

I'm sure there may be better harmonizing distros that would be easier for us to mangle maemo onto... that aren't rolling releases...but may have long term support for 1/2 a decade or so...like 'buntu's ..which may be easier.
Upkeep on a rolling is much easier than redoing a standard distro every so many months or years... but whatever port in a storm.

Past the primary necessity of maintaining our home here.

Past the secondary necessity of repository / catalog salvage, repository / catalog maintenance, and application repair, tweaking and upkeep.

This topic should be the tertiary necessity for our community.
To finally run maemo as a proper distro...
and as a consequence be able to expand from that point to wherever the desire takes us.

Once a proper distro we have a wide open vista of approach to other devices.
We would then have the same opportunities to exploit a variety of avenues just like any other distro....taking aim at smartphones, phablets, tablets, netbooks, laptops and desktops to name a few...

In turn ...once a distro, with the freedom from specific aging devices,
I don't predict, I'm SURE more and more people will become maemoans after enjoying the platform as a distro.
Which increases our community member base...just for a start..
It is a win win.

We really really should evolve from our N.I.T. earthly forms.
It isn't helping us not to.
We will have a beautiful platform trapped in crumbling bodies which will inevitably breathe their last and we will have nowhere to go from there.

We really need to do this for our continuance...for our survival