Thread: Maemo Weekly News: 17 May 2010
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Originally Posted by silvermountain View Post
What is the difference between the "Applications" section and the "Announcement" section?
Applications is intended for big or important releases of apps; or links to in-depth articles about applications. Announce is for people who may do an initial announcement about something (anything), but it's not yet got anything particularly large to link to from Applications.

The link "Top 10 downloads" shows, as far as I can tell only the Maemo5 download page http://maemo.org/downloads/Maemo5/
It seems to be broken.

"Unfortunately, for whatever reason, the theme developer has elected to host the theme on his own repository. Users hoping to try out the theme will need to add the repository to install it."
Kroll, the developer has been very clear about him not wanting to release it to Extras until more testing has been done (hence the note about it being an alpha release on the first post). Also, seeing how active he is here you would probably had gotten a reply within hours if asked him about it.
History has shown that developers who cite such good intentions often leave without their source code being anywhere. Extras-devel is a perfectly sensible place for things which are very much under testing.

At the moment, I don't think we have time to chase up every developer for a quote. Similarly, if there's nothing particularly quotable, or there aren't exciting screenshots, it's more likely to be relegated to the Announcements section.
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