[maemo-developers] Extras-testing improvements

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Tuesday 09 March 2010 11:56:49 Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Niels Breet wrote:
> > You have to see that Extras should be for applications that are of a high
> > quality. The Extras repository should not give any problems to people who
> > are new to Maemo and have no clue how to work with linux for instance.
>
> Here's the problem, there seems to be two (almost opposite) goals for
> this extras repository: one is to be a collection of all maemo software,
> eliminating the use of external repositories, the other is having a
> collection only of high quality software. Until you accept that
> you can't have both, those discussions will go on repeating.

There is nothing preventing (well, apart from autobuilder issues) people 
putting things into Extras-devel. It *is* a valid place for software, it's 
not the gutter, and not every application there is expected to enter Extras. 
I often feel the issues brought up in relation with the term 'quality' stem 
from different interpretations of the term -> terminology.


Regards,
Attila