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

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

I will bring the two bottles of beer and you will bring your free apologies. ;)

Aniello

2009/9/24 gary liquid <liquid at gmail.com>:
> 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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>> --
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>> --
>> anidel
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