[maemo-developers] Extras-testing improvements

[From: Matan Ziv-Av]

On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Attila Csipa wrote:

> 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.

The extras-devel wiki page defines this repository as a repository of 
programs that are not ready for end-users. Since my package is ready for 
end users, extras-devel is not the repository for it. It also makes no 
sense for me to suggest to users who want to install my package to 
enable a repository that may crash and burn their device.


-- 
Matan.