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* [[Open development/Upstream projects|Upstream projects]] providing software integrated in Maemo releases.
* [[Open development/Upstream projects|Upstream projects]] providing software integrated in Maemo releases.
* [[Open development/Maemo contributions|Maemo contributions]] is an attempt to list the most relevant contributions to OSS upstream projects.
* [[Open development/Maemo contributions|Maemo contributions]] is an attempt to list the most relevant contributions to OSS upstream projects.
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* [[Open development/Components and packages]] contains statistics about packages open/closed in Maemo 4.1. A Maemo 5 update will come after the final release.
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* [[Components and packages]] contains statistics about packages open/closed in Maemo 4.1. A Maemo 5 update will come after the final release.
* [[Open development/Why the closed packages]] elaborates the reasons to have certain packages closed and addresses requests for opening components.
* [[Open development/Why the closed packages]] elaborates the reasons to have certain packages closed and addresses requests for opening components.

Revision as of 11:03, 14 October 2009

We are bootstrapping this page as we speak. Feel free adding anything you feel relevant.

Contents

The basics

Maemo is developed as an open collaboration between Nokia and many generous volunteer programmers, designers, and users. Most of Maemo's components are open source, which gives users and developers the freedom and flexibility to contribute to and modify the platform's core development. Read the Introduction to open source at maemo.nokia.com.

Open development is the goal and open source is a consequence of it. Easier said than done when you need to deliver commercial and competitive products on time, but the Maemo team is trying and improving on every release.

Open Source and open development strategy

See also the Fremantle and Harmattan roadmaps.

In practice

  • If you want to get involved you need to find first the most recent source code available.
  • If you have patches for upstream components it is better to submit them directly upstream, unless they are indeed specific to Maemo.
  • Check the Maemo contribution guidelines before contributing any code.
  • Patches with bugfixes are submitted through http://bugs.maemo.org with the corresponding bug report.
  • Contact the developers before working on major patches or new features!

Official projects developed openly

Community projects developed openly

There are dozens of community projects developed openly. Learn more about them at (this should link to another page to keep this one around Nokia projects).