[maemo-developers] Maemo QA process

[From: Ian Stirling]

Attila Csipa wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 July 2010 22:53:43 Roman Morawek wrote:
>> P.S.: You are welcome to evaluate and vote on my package:
> 
> Indeed, the best strategy for developers is to lobby a bit for their 
> application. Open a thread on talk.maemo.org . Blog about it. Write to the 
> list. I hope the fellow devs won't take this the wrong way, but... this aspect 
> is actually a feature, not a bug, as it encourages discussion and 
> interaction/community building, not the fully disconnected 'dump in extras' 
> and 'download moar apps' approach. Obviously being delayed for months is very 
> bad, so we're constantly exploring ways to improve the process, but...
> 
>> Maybe an automatic promotion after 4 weeks would make sense, given its
>> actual package karma is positive?
> 
> ...the problem with automatic promotion is that then we don't really have any 
> guarantee that what gets to stable has actually been tested - and the testing 
> should be at least as much about protecting users from obvious faults as 
> providing feedback to developers. If we enable automatic promotion, that 
> actually might discourage testing due to the 'why bother, its going to get to 
> Extras anyway' factor. 
> 
> Note that since not long ago we also have super-testers, people with proven 
> track records, it's enough to get three of their votes if your package is 
> stuck and you're good to go.

Where is the super-testers list?
I've tested a few apps - though I need to get back into the pile of apps.