[maemo-developers] backgrounding/lock QA fail

[From: Aapo Rantalainen]

2010/8/16 Attila Csipa <maemo at csipa.in.rs>:
> I see we have a few apps (especially ports and stuff using SDL) that do not
> know how to suspend themselves and therefore it fails the QA. Now, the problem
> is that often it is non-trivial to fix/support this, and it's not that easy to
> point people to the right resources (due to the number of technologies
> involved). Often the people involved are not the authors, just maintainers, so
> their understanding of the inner workings/event loops of the apps is rather
> limited, making things even more difficult.

Does it mean original writer is using SDL wrongly?

Is this suspend-issue something that (all) upstream should be informed
and should they fix it?
(Is this relating overall power usage and 'green-computing'?)


-Aapo Rantalainen