In the worst case we would end up with an inverse Easy Debian:
Debian or Ubuntu as the base system with all fremantle hardware services (x11, pulseaudio, bme, camera daemon etc) integrated and the rest of Maemo5 (GUI apps and toolkits) running in a chroot environment.

@johnx:
* I definitely don't want to reinvent the wheel. I cannot spend too much time for the project anyway.
* Maemo5 is a ugly hack, so it can't get much worse
I have already tried to fix some of Maemo5's flaws but I'm fed up with implementing thousands of workarounds. This project would make it easier to test some novel, cleaner solutions.
* by not breaking Maemo5 we should always have access to a large pool of beta testers.
Starting from scratch would be crazy as the first Harmattan or MeeGo devices would probably be released before we could even have basic phone functionality.