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

[From: gary liquid]

it will have to be on IOU
i have no job, no money, no anything.
im actually surprised mrs lcuk let me go at all



On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Apologies will be accepted in Amsterdam along with a bottle of beer :D
>
> 2009/9/24 gary liquid <liquid at gmail.com>:
> > 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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>
> --
>
> --
> anidel
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