[maemo-developers] extras-testing and WONTFIX ?

From: Quim Gil quim.gil at nokia.com
Date: Mon Oct 26 09:39:27 EET 2009

ext Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Samstag 24 Oktober 2009 schrieb Andrew Flegg:
>> The QA criteria aren't very stringent and can be summed up as "play
>> nice, don't waste battery, try to use /opt". Any package which gets 10
>> thumbs up can be promoted. So, in your hypothetical case, a if the
>> developer won't fix a bug but 10 people still think it's worthy of
>> going into Extras, the developer will have that opportunity.
> In fact exactly that happened with "gpxview". The fremantle port
> uses a gtknotebook with "bottom" tabs. This isn't themed and is a
> WONTFIX in fremantle (and not documented anywhere, btw) and
> looks a little bit odd. But it i got the permission to move it to 
> extras, anyway.

Looks like a non-blocker:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist#Non-blockers

"Developers are encouraged to adopt the Maemo 5 UI guidelines and
optimize their application to finger use. However, lack of Maemo 5 UI
optimization is not a reason to block an application in its way to
Extras unless it is unusable even with stylus."

-- 
Quim Gil
open source advocate
Maemo Devices @ Nokia
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