[maemo-developers] Extras-testing improvements

[From: Niels Breet]

On Tue, March 9, 2010 12:12, 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.
>

Exactly. Extras-devel is perfectly fine for experimental applications.
People using extras-devel know they can expect applications to not be
flawless.

End-users using Extras should be able to expect proper quality applications.

Some applications developers might not want to have their application
comply with all QA rules, but then the consequence is that the app doesn't
go any further up the chain.

>
> Regards,
> Attila

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Niels Breet
maemo.org webmaster