[maemo-developers] Testing nonsense

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

2009/11/3 Till Harbaum <lists at harbaum.org>:
> Hi,
>
> there's another problem with the testing i am facing with gpxview: Nonsense ratings.
> GPXView got a "thumbs down" for needing lots of porting to match the maemo6 gui.
> Yes, harmattan! Why the heck should a fremantle program not be forwarded to
> extras due to the fact that it will be hard to port it to qt (which is what that guy
> is imho trying to say)?
>
> I am considering to entirely ignore the test process until this testing/promotion thing
> has actually proven to be useful. Dealing with people that just rate nonsense issues is
> a) a waste of time and b) frustrating.
>
> My proposals:
> - Add links to the apps changelogs to the package rating page
> - Add a small text telling the people what they are supposed to test (not harmattan
> gui portability!!)
> - Add a link to the bug tracker, so people can file appropriate bugs which can then
> be processed in a useful manner
>
> Till
>

Well he didn't say he thunbed it down because of what he said in the comment.

Maybe he thumbed it down for a reason and ALSO commented that it'll be
hard to adapt it
to Maemo 6 later on.

-- 
anidel
Sent from London, Eng, United Kingdom