[maemo-developers] How to use extras-testing correctly?

[From: tero.kojo at nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org 
> [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext 
> Henrik Hedberg
> Sent: 24 September, 2009 13:07
> Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Subject: Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?
> 
> Niels Breet wrote:
> > The developer/maintainer is always the one who decides on when to 
> > publish the app.
> 
>     So no quarantine, no need to gather karma points? Please, 
> update the wiki [1], if that will be the case.

No, the question was who makes the promotion to extras. The developer does in the end.

>     Aniello was saying that developer should have an option 
> to promote his application directly into extras regardless of 
> the extras-testing QA. I second to that.

I find that understandable and scary. You guys want the control on your software, naturally.

But giving a potentially bad experience to a first time oss user? No. The people who will get N900s aren't all reading this list, and some of them are even a bit clueless. I know that the people who are raising this issue provide a class software, I use it. But not everything in for instance Diablo extras is good and functional.

Even worse, direct promotion leaves a gaping hole to upload stuff that crashes devices. Which is then pulled out later?
I know that the people looking after the maemo.org repositories are fast, but even they go on vacations occasionally.

>     In addition, Aniello had nice ideas about the processes 
> and tools how to find applications (and developers) who had 
> probably misused their power to promote application directly 
> into extras. There is no hurry to implement those, although 
> they could make sense in the long run.

As a feedback channel yes. It's a good idea, but needs an implementation, which we could talk about in Amsterdam (a lot of the early contributors will be there, I don't mean to discriminate) live and on a thread here.

Tero

>     BR,
> 
>     Henrik
> 
> [1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing#Promotion_.2F_Demotion
> 
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>     Henrik Hedberg  -  http://www.henrikhedberg.net/ 
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