Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb Steve Greenland: > According to Krischan Keitsch <krischan.keitsch at alumni.tu-berlin.de>: > > to a) "Were are all the apps?" > > One thing that we are missing is a 'distribution' (the debian or ubuntu > > way) with primary repositories and additional repos. etc. > > Actually, I think we *have* that repo: repository.maemo.org. The problem > is that there is no obvious, straightforward way for Jill Random to get > her packages into the repo. Is this documented anywhere? A quick browse > of maemo.org didn't find anything. > > But as I noted, there seems to be some plans to improve this situation. > > And, admittedly, it's not as easy as just letting anonymous people > upload. Any package can trash the entire system, via the install hooks. > Debian deals with this by making it so painful to become an official > developer that the asshats won't make the effort. > > OTOH, the current situation encourages the addition of random repos to > the source list, so basically is no different than letting random people > upload. Given that the official nokia repos are still screwed up w.r.t. > package signing (see https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2067), we're > training the users to ignore/avoid any security stuff anyway. > > Steve At the moment we a experiencing two diffrent philosophies how to handle 3rd party apps on mobil devices: a) no rd party apps what so ever: apple / ipod touch b) complete freedom to install every 3rd party app we want: encouraged by Nokia / Internet tablets Usually when you have two extrems the optimum is in between. Being allowed to install no apps on my own is (for me at least) absolutely not acceptable. On the other hand the situation on the repository landscape of the internet tablets is not satisfying either. The optimum may be between the two - meaning we need some kind of a quality management for the community efforts. To approve that just verified and checked apps are in the official and universe repositories. So that Jill Random and ourselves can benefit from rock solid high quality apps. What do you think? Regards Krischan
