[maemo-developers] Maemo QA process

[From: Frank Banul]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Roman Morawek <lists at morawek.at> wrote:
>
> I am the owner of an N900 program and promoted my package to
> extras-testing ca. 2 months ago. Right now there are only 2 votes on it.
> I wonder how many more months it will take until 10 persons vote for it
> such that I can promote it to extras (given that the votes are positive).
>

Don't feel bad, mine is at 4 months.


> I already have a bunch of improvements ready since several weeks.
> However, I do not dare to upload them because my package will start the
> evaluation sequence then again from scratch. I think this is a big
> disadvantage for the community, because the tool could already be much
> better.
>

Been there, done that, might as well upload it. It's annoying but in the end
the new features will take the same number of votes whether you do it now or
later.


> I personally see my program as very useful - well, otherwise I wouldn't
> have spent the time for development. I assume that just nobody is aware
> of it, since everybody just looks at the available programs in extras.
> At least this is what I did to search for useful tools.
>

Did you post on talk.maemo.org? That will get a few eyeballs on it. Be sure
to post screen shots. Also, get it into the weekly news letter that goes
out. It has a section for applications.


> >From my perspective, the current QA process should be reconsidered.
> Maybe an automatic promotion after 4 weeks would make sense, given its
> actual package karma is positive?
>

I would be OK with this as long as there were a way to have a package
removed in the event that something was found when it did reach a wider
audience. Allow thumbs down on extras but require a bug report and give the
developer a way to respond.

Frank
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