[maemo-developers] External Repository and HAM

[From: Valerio Valerio]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Attila Csipa <maemo at csipa.in.rs> wrote:

> On Monday 08 March 2010 18:43:02 Graham Cobb wrote:
> > It must be made clear to testers that giving a thumbs down (or up) MUST
> > always be on the basis of their own, direct observation.  It would be
> > unacceptable for a tester to give a thumbs down "because Attila has
> already
> > given a thumbs down and added a comment" as it is possible that you had
> > made a mistake, or it is possible that the developer has added a comment
> > which explains why the thumbs down was incorrect in this case.
> >
> > As long as each tester personally verifies that they can see that the
> > problem is there, and it is a showstopper, then it seems a reasonable
> > optimisation.
>
> Again, keep in mind that the issue here was with the bugtracker non-
> compliance, and that *IS* something that can be instantly verified (and I
> certainly don't expect anybody to t-down without making sure that a listed
> error actually exists - not that I'm that big of a factor in the
> testing-squad
> to expect anything from anybody :). In fact, if you take a look at my votes
> you'll see that I did not t-down mikkov's Kobo package even though many
> others
> did exactly because it was unclear to me whether it was offending the
> bugtracker rule or not.
>
> To reiterate an important point with the bugtracker issue - IMHO it should
> be
> editable from the packages user-interface (just like screenshots), and the
> XSBC field just used as a last-resort manual override. Think about it this
> way
> - the only way to change a bugtracker link is to force thousands of people
> to
> download the SAME package again (even if we forego the whole -testing
> issue),
> just so that a different link would appear on the maemo.org site ? MASSIVE
> overkill.
>
> And that's a two birds with one stone, right there - that would mean
> bugtrackers are no longer blockers, i.e. testers thumb down, the author
> fixes
> it in the package interface and the testers change it to thumbs up and it
> can
> be promoted, everybody happy, no quarantine or tester time wasted.
>

I totally agree with that approach, something similar to what Mikkov
suggested.
At least I don't see any use for the bugtracker outside the
maemo.orgdomain(package interface&downloads), or I'm missing something
here ? is
there real value to have it embedded in the package ? any future plans for
that ?

Best regards,

-- 
Valério Valério

http://www.valeriovalerio.org


> Regards,
> Attila
>
>
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