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This isn't how the process works, and it doesn't actually do anything productive beyond supposedly soothing those of you that can't get over existing releases eventually being expired.

Soothing isn't bad. We have a full thread of un-soothed people here.
And yeah, we are all scared that our devices get left aside, when the new one gets here.
Thats why "Fixed in Freemantle" ain't getting a whole buch of smiles. We just want to hear that the N8x0 are still getting attention. Complaining about the bugzilla is asking that. Maybe it isn't the right way, but heck, I know I'm nervous. I don't have the kind of money to get a new device. I want to be soothed.

That's not the only other option.

Exactly. If Nokia or whoever came out and said, once and for all, that _they_ would be porting fremantle to our devices, then I'm sure most everyone here would be happy. So far, all we've had are vague assurances that "the community" will be able to port fremantle for us. Who knows how long that would be likely to take (no disrespect to the very talented community) or even if it's going to work properly when it arrives.

Why not commenting the bug (Like you did) but letting it opened?

Because that's not how it works. When an enhancement is roadmapped, it's marked as FIXED.

Even if they were to do that, it would still leave us with bugs that are closed in bugzilla, but still unfixed for over half a year (and probably more). What is SSU for?

Work in progress. Fremantle and Harmattan will probably make us see Diablo as we see Bora and Mistral today.

We are commited to http://wiki.maemo.org/Objective:Maemo_variants

About the rest,

Investing more resources having Fremantle fixes available also for Diablo might look like a more sustainable approach but... what if investing heavily in the future releases is actually the best way for Maemo to become really sustainable?

There is not such 'planning early obsoletion'. If you think device manufacturers make better business through obsoletion than through user satisfaction and customer retention, think twice. This sector is simply running fast, very fast. Look around. Not being fast is not very sustainable and to be fast you need to set priorities and make compromises.

On the other hand Maemo SW is funding 3 *masters for community activities and a fourth one is coming (debmaster). We could have less investment done there and more e.g. making Diablo users happier in the short term. But would that be more sustainable?

By prioritizing stronger future releases and a stronger community we fulfill better your 1) 2) points above and (we believe) all we are in a more promising and sustainable Maemo path.

PS: Actually Nokia seems to care about the environment. Longer life for devices is part of this trend, and thanks to Maemo's openness that longer life doesn't depend on Nokia alone.

Really? I'm sure the poster you were responding to hadn't figured that out.

Apparently not, because it's not the first time I've responded to that 'solution' in this thread.