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Re: [Community Council Election]: All Candidates Debate

As a matter of interest, would it be ok to open a new thread for those questions which have not been chosen for your blog, so that any candidates who wish can also answer them?

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Originally Posted by RevdKathy (Post 575965)

As a matter of interest, would it be ok to open a new thread for those questions which have not been chosen for your blog, so that any candidates who wish can also answer them?

Absolutely! We are all on equal footing here. What I've found is that some candidates are more responsive than others, so be patient, and ymmv !

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Originally Posted by EIPI (Post 575974)

What I've found is that some candidates are more responsive than others, so be patient, and ymmv !

there are capacitive and resistive candidates...
sorry, couldn't resist :D

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Originally Posted by EIPI (Post 575373)

This additional set will be published on my blog along with their responses, providing they come in on time! Thanks everyone for your help in grilling the candidates. It should be a well contested election this time around.

Please publish on maemo.org as well.

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Originally Posted by SD69 (Post 576017)

Please publish on maemo.org as well.

My blog is aggregated on planet maemo, so it will appear on maemo.org.

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Originally Posted by EIPI (Post 576065)

My blog is aggregated on planet maemo, so it will appear on maemo.org.

Well, maybe someone will cut and paste it onto talk or wiki as well.

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Due to certain remarks made here and on the email list I'll go ahead and move my answering posts elsewhere, so don't be confused at the upcoming editing.

I honestly thought EIPI was through with the question assembling process, sorry

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The blog post containing the 10 Q&A with candidates is now up on my blog:

http://mobiletablets.blogspot.com

Enjoy!

I will have to see about publishing the 3 community questions on the blog, as I only received a few responses to those. If no more materialize before voting starts, I will post those responses in this thread.

Thank you very much to the candidates for their participation and patience. Collaborating with 10 people in such a short time-frame is a first for me, and there were lots of lessons learned on my part. Thanks again!

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Originally Posted by EIPI (Post 575379)

[Mandor]: In your opinion, what should happen to Maemo.org after the merge ?

What merge? What's taking place is not really a merge, but the creation of a whole new community. So, really, nothing much will happen to maemo.org it will remain online for the foreseeable future and support those users who can't or don't wish to move to MeeGo.

Of course the specifics of that future are dependent on Nokia. If no viable upgrade path is provided for existing owners then maemo.org's position must be much larger moving forward than if users have an easy way to migrate to MeeGo.

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Originally Posted by EIPI (Post 575379)

[VDVsx]: Do you agree with the Extras QA process ? In your opinion, we should lower, raise or maintain the current entry barrier for extras ?

Good QA is a balancing act that's never going to be perfect. It will always be inconvenient for everybody involved in the process. Developers have to suffer longer deployment times, testers have to work harder and users have to wait longer for new software. Ideally good QA will leave everybody better off in the end when they don't have to deal with a lot of buggy, low-quality software.

I think the Extras QA process currently has two majors problems: an often slow and still unpolished front-end, and QA requirements that have, as yet, not been completely refined.

The software will improve with time and good bug reporting, of course, but the process requirements themselves require tweaking. Specifically, I'd like to see accommodations made for minor point releases (currently the process treats all releases the same, which encourages developers not to release minor fixes) and I'd like to see the burden for basic, easily automated testing moved into the infrastructure as much as possible.

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Originally Posted by EIPI (Post 575379)

[GaryHT627]: As a new comer here I have sensed a culture clash. It seems the history of Maemo was largely a hangout for those well skilled in Linux and there was an assumption of what was understood and more importantly how the “community” worked. Now with the N900 there is the introduction of those, like me, who are not experts at Linux and do not have a long history of working in the “community” environment. Things like voting for what bugs to fix first, are totally foreign concepts. And yes, there will be some questions that make your eyes roll to the back of your head because many of us lack the skills you have. As this will likely get worse over time as more devices are introduced and the customer base grows, what would you change to facilitate a smoother and more productive co-existence?

Technical barriers to entry, of course, need to be reduced, processes need to be transparent, and everything needs to be well documented.

maemo.org being what it is (and that's not a support site for end-users, but the home of the enthusiast community for Maemo), the hurdles of active participation are never going to go away and all content is never going to be completely easy to understand. The best that can be done is to make sure the tools are approachable (making Bugzilla easier to use is one of my pet projects), the documentation is good, and that there are always people available to answer whatever questions arise.

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Yeah, I've been reprogramming myself to use words like "migration" instead of "merge". :D