[maemo-developers] Extras-testing improvements

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Tuesday 09 March 2010 11:12:36 Attila Csipa wrote:
> There is nothing preventing (well, apart from autobuilder issues) people
> putting things into Extras-devel. It *is* a valid place for software

No it isn't.  It is a pool of packages to allow cross-developer testing.  It 
is where you put the new version of your library so that the developers of 
applications which depend on that library can make sure it still works.  
extras-devel is a tool for developers only and packages in there are expected 
to be often broken.

If we want an uncontrolled place for apps then we need the "extras-author" 
someone suggested yesterday.  There is nothing stopping us creating that.  
But, if we do then my prediction is that Extras will be dead within 3 months.  
If there is a place where user's can look for "latest and greatest" apps then 
everyone will enable it, developers will stop bothering to promote their apps 
to Extras, and a short time later, everyone's devices will start to die 
because the apps there are not optified, run down the battery, etc.

The community needs a place where **every** app passes through a very basic QA 
to try to make sure it is safe and it is then available.  That is what Extras 
is.  

If some people also want somewhere apps pass through review and quality 
control then feel free to create it.  

Graham