[maemo-developers] "Opt-in" betas in the Application Manager

[From: Ryan Abel]

On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:27 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote:

> However, Debian experimental is not Debian unstable, and I have the
> feeling that Maemo extras-devel can't really decide for itself whether
> it wants to be more like Debian experimental or more like Debian
> unstable.
>
> Extras-devel is used both for smoke testing of new 'point-releases'
> before they are unleashed onto the masses and also for beta releases
> that will never go to the masses and should only be installed by  
> people
> who know what they are getting themselves into.
>
> So, disabling automatic upgrades from extras-devel will make smoke
> testing less effective.


I guess the next question, then, (which arguably belongs over on - 
community) is whether it's time to add a third section to Extras.

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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council chair