Re: Forum reorg pointing to talk.maemo.org
 

Yes to app categories (Internet, multimedia, etc.)

One thing not being discussed is that many apps are in development, undocumented, or otherwise not appropriate for casual users. Perhaps this is more important in practice than the "official" distinction, although somewhat overlapping.

Re: Forum reorg pointing to talk.maemo.org
 

I think just one big apps forum is needed, which will contain both Maemo SW apps and other apps. I don't think we need subcategories, unless one or two categories overwhelm the apps forum.

Re: Forum reorg pointing to talk.maemo.org
 

Here are a few more changes as per Quim:

• merged Official and 3rd party apps to a single 'Applications' forum. Main category renamed to 'Software'
• renamed 'Canola' to 'Multimedia'. Canola threads prefixed with '[Canola]'.
• renamed 'Gaming' as 'Games'

Re: Forum reorg pointing to talk.maemo.org
 

Alright, based on bug 4476 we may want to discuss the naming of the maemo.org forum and the Talk section.

I'm thinking we could safely rename maemo.org to "Website", but I'm not sure about Talk.

Re: Forum reorg pointing to talk.maemo.org
 

Hey, I was just getting used to the Talk > Talk > pipe... :p

Even better is maemo.org > Talk > Talk > maemo.org (see this thread's header). It's complete. Circular. Self-referential. Break that and I'm sure monkeys will fly out of someone's butt...

Re: Forum reorg pointing to talk.maemo.org
 

How about maemo.org > Talk > Shooting the Sh*t > maemo.org

Re: Forum reorg pointing to talk.maemo.org
 

The Garnet VM poses a number of specific issues (e.g., how to make backups) that a normal Palm OS forum isn't really used to seeing, and that are really quite specific to the implementation we have on the Nokia tablets.

Re: Forum reorg pointing to talk.maemo.org
 

Thus, this:

Re: Forum reorg pointing to talk.maemo.org
 

Having just gone through the Alternatives forum tagging hundreds of threads, I can tell you that the Garnet VM is one of the most deserving alternatives for a subforum.

Take a look at this list. These are just the threads that I've tagged so far. There's several dozen I haven't gotten to yet.

Looking at the tag cloud really shows that our work in Alternatives is paying off. Look at the size of the alternative tags (like kde, mer, garnet, debian, deblet, android, etc) compared to tags you would expect to be bigger (like n800, maemo, microb, etc).

Re: Forum reorg pointing to talk.maemo.org
 

qole: Very interesting list. I had no idea there were that many, even though I follow all the GVM stuff. And almost every thread topic is very specific, focused on a real issue. That tells me that those using GVM on NIT are quite keen :) (and as rcsteiner also said, GVM issues are of a different nature than native PalmOS issues).