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MeeGo: the merger of Maemo and Moblin

MeeGo: the merger of Maemo and Moblin

Posted Feb 17, 2010 2:42 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
Parent article: MeeGo: the merger of Maemo and Moblin

One particularly annoying thing about MeeGo is the hardware enabling process has zero mention of the word "upstream":

http://meego.com/developers/hardware-enabling-process


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MeeGo: the merger of Maemo and Moblin

Posted Feb 17, 2010 10:11 UTC (Wed) by Hanno (guest, #41730) [Link]

Intel and Nokia have a proven track record of contributing upstream to the Kernel and other open source projects. It looks like they know what they are doing.

MeeGo: the merger of Maemo and Moblin

Posted Feb 17, 2010 20:19 UTC (Wed) by jku (subscriber, #42379) [Link]

This was an oversight in the document. I mentioned the issue to the author and the current version includes "MeeGo requires that submitted patches also be submitted to the appropriate upstream project and be on a path for acceptance".

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