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

[From: gary liquid]

please accept huge apologies for spelling of your name Aniello :$



On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:03 PM, gary liquid <liquid at gmail.com> wrote:

> :)
>
> this has been a good informative discussion.
> since we are working on beta, can i suggest something.
>
> anidels point about app feedback *from the device itself* is important.
>
> if me as a user selects extras testing and installs a an app because anidel
> said his new version  is there
> from that moment on, it should be the device itself that monitors the
> process.
>
> in the same way the crash reporter pops up and asks a question after a
> crash, can we discuss a path to similar for testing apps?
> perhaps if the app itself in testing had a flag added to its desktop file
> (or some other way, a list perhaps *hand waving*)
> and when the user has run the app they are testing, or 1/2/12/24 hours
> after installing the user was directly asked
>
> "what are your feelings on this app?"
>
> it would give control directly to the testers and remove the disconnect
> that currently occurs - I for one have major problems maintaining a big long
> list of places and sites and things I should look for and the packages list
> overwhelms me with multiple versions and complex filenames which mean
> nothing to me as a user.
> the app is installed on my tablet, it is a computer, it knows the version,
> it knows the url path - i can give valuable feedback there and then.
>
> i dont know how practical or complex an app of this nature would be, but we
> have enough toolkits and developers around who might help code something up.
> it should even go through extras-testing itself!
>
> gary
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2009/9/24 Andre Klapper <aklapper at openismus.com>:
>> > Am Donnerstag, den 24.09.2009, 11:48 +0100 schrieb Aniello Del Sorbo:
>> >> My only complaint is on who has the final word.
>> >
>> > Again: It is the package maintainer, after his/her package has been
>> > given 10 karma points by testers.
>> >
>> > andre
>> > --
>> > Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)
>> >
>>
>> Thus I guess we need to work on what those testers should work.
>> Is this being done?
>>
>> And what about the second part of the proposal?
>>
>> --
>> anidel
>> Sent from London, Eng, United Kingdom
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