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

[From: tero.kojo at nokia.com]

----- Original message -----
>
> 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?

I hope that was retorical. Tell your evil twin to do something usefull.

> Does extras-testing factor into this?

At least so that I would prefer maemo.org extras to be clean from malware. It is much easier to promote it in Nokia internally when extras contains good software.

Tero

> David
>
> tero.kojo at nokia.com<mailto: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
>
>
> --
> "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."
>
>

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