Stop filing bugs until Nokia confirms MeeGo for N900?

[bugelrex]

Should we stop filing bugs until Nokia confirms MeeGo for N900?

In summary:
Not only did we paid over $500 for the phone, but should we also provide Nokia with the following:

Help find and file bugs in Maemo, which helps Maemo improve, this giving Nokia invaluable FREE QA (includes the priviledge of paying for the device) and helps make the OS very solid

But if Nokia is not going to give firm answer on whether N900 is going to get MeeGo, why should we spend the time finding/filing bugs that may never get fixed on the N900. We *potentially* get nothing back on the N900 in return of free QA.

[Laughing Man]

What on earth do you think not filing bugs will do? Make Nokia give us Meego? What's likely to happen (even if you managed to get everybody on board) is Nokia would not provide Meego on the device, and now all the bugs you could've fixed with a PR Whatever update aren't fixed now on your N900. Meego and Maemo 5 are likely two very different operating systems (though Meego is partially based off the Maemo framework). The bugs you report are more likely to be relevant to Maemo 5 rather than whatever Nokia and Intel have cooking in their pipes.

[NokiaRocks]

rly good idea....



NOT

[bugelrex]

Originally Posted by Laughing Man

What on earth do you think not filing bugs will do?

Not make you fool for wasting your time and getting nothing in return. (having paid Nokia $500 to boot)

Any bugs found in Maemo, especially in the core will be very relevant to MeeGo since its supposedly Maemo6 based.

[Frappacino]

forget it it wont happen - nokia will just ignore u

best way is to sell your phone/return your phone and buy another phone and tell all your friends what happened so they wont get shafted too

anything else is a waste of time

[lcuk]

bugelrex, go look in gitorious at the maemo section.
many of the projects and apps there are on your device now.
they are being updated continuously by a team of extremely talented developers.

if you find any bugs and think you can help; file bugs, do some triage, submit patches.

[Laughing Man]

Originally Posted by bugelrex

Not make you fool for wasting your time and getting nothing in return. (having paid Nokia $500 to boot)

Any bugs found in Maemo, especially in the core will be very relevant to MeeGo since its supposedly Maemo6 based.

Meego is Moblin+Maemo based, it's integrating both parts. If you feel that your wasting your time and getting nothing in return, I advise you sell your N900 now rather than wait and see.

Frankly regardless of what Nokia does, I think the price I paid for the N900 is well worth the money. As long as QT compatibility is kept across N900 and Meego (meaning I can run any QT based app in Meego on the N900 and vice versa).

[cweedon@yahoo.com]

yes it is likely that the differences between meego and maemo5 will be similar to the difference between maemo 5 and maemo4, but also take into account that moblin aims to be a kinda of one size fits all operating systems, and given that we are supposed to get a meego nokia device before the year is over(probably the christmas shoping season), which is not nearly enough time to design, prototype, market, beta test, mass produce and ship an intel based unit(agreement signed this month 10 months till december) it is likely that meego will be dynamically compatible across the ARM and x86 instruction sets

[bugelrex]

Originally Posted by Laughing Man

, I think the price I paid for the N900 is well worth the money.

I totally agree the price is worth it for the N900. The only only thing I object to is spending time finding/filing bugs for Maemo if there is no guarantee they will ever get fixed on this device.

[fatalsaint]

Originally Posted by Laughing Man

Frankly regardless of what Nokia does, I think the price I paid for the N900 is well worth the money. As long as QT compatibility is kept across N900 and Meego (meaning I can run any QT based app in Meego on the N900 and vice versa).

Yeah but Portrait Mode and some of the other goodies that are marked for Harmattan would be nice I'm sure..

I may not be as vocal anymore.. but I still think it's utterly ******ed they aren't going to backport it. (until it's confirmed officially: I'm operating on the assumption of no upgrades. When every Nokia employee we know tries repeatedly to focus solely on QT and ignoring the upgrade portion.. it's like a smoke and mirrors act.)

I am more hopeful with MeeGo though that we will get a community port of MeeGo that might actually function.