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

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

2009/9/24 Niels Breet <niels at maemo.org>:
> On Thu, September 24, 2009 12:07, Henrik Hedberg wrote:
>> Niels Breet wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, September 24, 2009 11:19, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here's my proposal:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We leave Extras-Testing as it is, with votes, comments, bug reports
>>>> an so on (or improve it, as you wish). But then it's only the
>>>> developer that decides, based on that feedback, if or not to promote
>>>> the application to Extras.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This is what happens now. Even if your app gets enough votes for
>>> promotion to Extras, you still need to push the button. There is no
>>> automatic promotion.
>>>
>>> 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, but the developer can decide to leave the app in extras-testing.
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> This is what we had in diablo and this clearly didn't work.
>
In Diablo we hadn't any feedback from extras-devel.
There was no infrastructure like Extras Testing there.

> The whole idea about this QA testing is to prevent the wild west
> brokenness we had before. Sure it is not perfect, we can shape it
> gradually.
>

That's why I love it.

> Remember that this is still beta, nothing is perfect in the first release.
>

That's exactly what I am doing.

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anidel
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