The title is vague because I don't find the correct term to describe what I want to say... It's just that I personally feel that during the last 6 months or so, the overall feeling of everything around my N800 keeps improving significantly, adding a lot to my user experience.
Bugs in bugzilla seem to get real treatment now.
Applications move to the "Extras"-repository.
The Wiki is suddenly useful.
Activities in the community are documented and announced in a transparent way.
...
None of this has any direct effect on my N800, but still... All this humming and buzzing (and the effects it has, like up-to-date Wiki pages, more apps readily available from the application manager, closed bugs...) add a lot to the joy of owning the device. At least for me.
I cannot remember having seen this amount of activity in the past.
Am I alone with this impression or do I simply see the effect of somebody really coordinating and pushing the community? Or didn't I pay attention when the same humming and buzzing happened before?
I have seen some improvements and some unimprovements. It seems to me that overall, the environment is still not particularly newbie friendly.
I personally have become less interested in the tablet environment, though things like liqbase are definitely fantastic -- but is that the result of improvements here, or just a great programmer from nowhere arriving?
I am also spending less time trying to read threads that have become longer than ever. People have really been converted by the ceaseless pressure not to start new threads, so if you have a question, you need to put it at the bottom of a bottomless pit of messages.
I appreciate the actions of the heroes here, but for me the tablet thrill is gone.
liqbase wouldn't exist without the great people in this community helping in numerous ways.
I am still a n00b in Linux and still don't understand many parts of it. I simply have ideas that I am trying to visualize, the folks around here in all of their respective fields know the specifics.
I have seen some improvements and some unimprovements. It seems to me that overall, the environment is still not particularly newbie friendly.
I personally have become less interested in the tablet environment, though things like liqbase are definitely fantastic -- but is that the result of improvements here, or just a great programmer from nowhere arriving?
I am also spending less time trying to read threads that have become longer than ever. People have really been converted by the ceaseless pressure not to start new threads, so if you have a question, you need to put it at the bottom of a bottomless pit of messages.
I appreciate the actions of the heroes here, but for me the tablet thrill is gone.
Agree 100% with your comments.
In particular, Nokia tablet project has not evolved as fast as I hoped (especially when you compare it with the competition).
Longer threads tend to hide the answer to the title post and just increase the frustration when looking for a solutions to a problem in google searches. I too would appreciate small threads relevant to the post title.
A lot of this has to do with the shift in maemo.org's direction Nokia has been pushing over the last 8 months with the help of the maemo.org Four (Niels, webmaster; Dave, docmaster; and Andre and Karsten, bugmasters) and Quim.
I also think we're getting some tangible benefits from the Council's work as well, though, admittedly, I'm overwhelmingly biased.
Sadly this one isn't quite as good as it sounds, because it's mostly just Andre sprinting back and forth between the internal tracker and the external one doing an insane amount of what amounts to "administrative overhead"-work keeping them in sync. Which is not, unfortunately, actual Nokia engineers and product managers actually getting involved in Bugzilla.
That is, of course, not to say that we don't benefit greatly from the crazy amount of work Andre puts in (Thanks, Andre!), but I can't help feeling that it's a bandaid on the bug #630 situation that may delay real progress (certainly through no fault of Andre's, since he's one of the major pushers internally for Nokia's involvement in Bugzilla).
Dave kicked this one off with the migration from the (godawful) Midgard wiki to the Mediawiki we're using now, I continued it by improving the recovered articles, adding new ones (andrewfblack copied most of the useful stuff over from the itT wiki. Thanks!), and am finishing it up now by finally killing the Midgard wiki so everybody can move on (particularly Google <_<).
Activities in the community are documented and announced in a transparent way.
The public Sprint meetings really help out a lot here, as well as the overall shift in the community's thinking towards openness and transparency. Hopefully Maemo Software is learning from maemo.org's example and beginning to follow suit.
Longer threads tend to hide the answer to the title post and just increase the frustration when looking for a solutions to a problem in google searches. I too would appreciate small threads relevant to the post title.
It would also be useful for people to summarise important threads on the maemo.org wiki, where they can be searched/looked at/fine tuning corrections made more easily than buried under millions of posts.
