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A cam without maintainer is called blindly maintained. This may happen after ML was ported to the cam some time ago and former maintainer is no longer working on it.
Such camera models get updates when new builds are published but there may be nobody feeling responsible to do basic testing and quality control. Bugs may get introduced and remain unnoticed until an user stumbles across it and fill in bug report.

A bootable card is an essential part of ML's startup process. During installation some information is written into a hidden section of your installation medium.
If a card is formated outside the cam or formated in a cam not actively running ML this information will get lost. Boot ability will not be affected by deleting files or directories.
To make additional cards bootable it is recommended to redo ML installation for each card.

Some information written and stored in cam during ML installation. It will only be deleted by proper deinstallation.
A cam with bootflag set will check if there is a bootable card found in cam's card slot(s). It's an essential part of ML's startup process.

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A developer (dev) in ML microcosmos is a person doing ML programming, porting, maintaining.

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A maintainer in ML microcosmos is a developer feeling responsible for a particular camera model. Maintaining a cam consists of tasks like programming, testing, quality control, porting ML to new firmware versions.
Cameras without a maintainer are called blindly supported.

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Dev lingo

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Yet Another ML Menu Option. You may get this response after posting a feature request asking for an additional menu option. ML staff is reluctant to add any new menu options because they feel strongly there already are too many and they want to avoid spreading the disease.