[maemo-developers] Documentation for maemo.org Downloads section?

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 15:27:49 Mike Lococo wrote:
> > Of course, you might want to keep your repository available for creating
> > packages used by your testers before you want to release to the wider
> > maemo.org community.
>
> Is there a reason not to use extras-devel for this kind of thing? Simply
> upload the experimental packages there with no intention of promoting
> them until they've evolved/been-updated enough to be ready for a wider
> audience.

Personally I try to make sure packages are at least installable and not 
obviously broken before uploading them to extras-devel.  There are many 
developers who have extras-devel enabled permanently and I prefer not to have 
a fire-drill after breaking something someone on this list is depending on!

For GPE I even use an alpha/beta model: a few people in the GPE team test an 
alpha version out of my repos before I upload it to extras-devel (which I 
then announce on ITT as a beta release).  I also use a personal repos to make 
available a daily build direct from SVN with no testing at all and to make 
bug fixes available early to affected people.

On the other hand, for small projects like Xsisusb I just test it myself 
before uploading to extras-devel and don't bother with putting it in a 
personal repos at all.

Graham