[maemo-developers] Repositories mess: conclusions and actions

[From: Steve Greenland]

According to Quim Gil  <quim.gil at nokia.com>:
> 
> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:13 +0200, ext Murray Cumming wrote:
> > Requiring any quality control before having a place to put the
> > alpha/beta-quality stuff will just stop us from getting much software.
> > Software needs to be released in order to increase its quality.
> 
> Indeed, see my original proposal at
> http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail//maemo-developers/2007-October/012192.html
> where I suggest an unfiltered extras-testing together with the filtered
> extras.

Nitpick: please call it extras-unstable (or -experimental), not
extras-testing.

Why? Because the Debian "testing" repository has packages that have
already passed some basic quality control. In particular, it is
extremely rare to get anything into Debian testing that causes problems
with the OS or any other application. Sure, not everybody is going
to have that background, but some of us will, and the very different
meaning of the "testing" moniker will be confusing.

Steve
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