[maemo-developers] What's the best attack? (Re: How to use extras-testing correctly?)`

[From: David Greaves]

I realise this is a slightly different question (hence the new subject)

OK, say I have an evil twin who wants to attack ('own') a lot of Nokia N900
devices. How do I do this?

Does extras-testing factor into this?

David

tero.kojo at nokia.com wrote:
> ----- Original message -----
>>
>> On Thu, September 24, 2009 13:01, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
>>
>> > > > I am well aware of that :)
>> > > > But if I go thru extras-testing (and I really want to!) then it
> looks
>> > > > like the Community has the last word on my application.
>> > > >
>> > > Yes, they do. It's a community effort, but look at it from the other
>> > > side. Not one single person or entitiy can block your app. It
> takes more
>> > > people to block it.
>> > >
>> >
>> > I know.. but still.. scares me.. :)
>> >
>> I tried to make this as transparent as possible, by showing each vote
>> together with the user. If people are trolling we should be easily be
> able
>> to spot this.
>>
>> By letting the community doing this QA out in the open, we can prevent
>> rejections without reasoning by a certain entity like we have seen in the
>> news lately.
> 
> This transparency is actually the thing that makes me feel secure about
> the process. The testers are independent and operate with their own names.
> 
> The (ex-)qa-manager in me is also excited by the fact that for once the
> testers are really independant.
> 
>> However, in a democracy not everybody can be satisfied. Let's tackle
>> issues when we actually get there.
> 
> Hear hear!
> If the process does not work, then it get's changed. If it works we'll
> just be happy and discuss how to make it more efficient.
> 
> I'm already thinking that there might be a need for a Maemo testers'
> club that makes sure that even niche apps don't get stranded in testing.
> 
> Also I'll take the time to ask Nokia testing to look at the tooling
> issue. I would like to have some nice set of tools for testing the
> measurable aspects of applications (like battery usage as Igor pointed
> out).
> 
> And in any case we need to talk about Anidello's idea on feedback, with
> beer or not.
> 
> Tero


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