[maemo-developers] Extras-testing improvements

[From: Edward Page]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Niels Breet <niels at maemo.org> 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.
>
> Developers who want to have their applications available for the largest
> audience possible, should consider this. If adding a link to a bugtracker
> is too hard for a developer, can we really expect a quality application
> from them?

I can understand why we would want to move in this direction but as
I've been following the extras discussion this is *not* what Extras
has been and we need to keep that in mind.  This is a change and not
existing policy.  On the first bug day we got a bit carried away and
down voted things.  A couple days later we had a discussion on here
about it and realized we possibly went too far, they were items not in
the criteria though we considered them important if we were judging
for "high quality".

Also something I worry about who defines what high quality is?  That I
have no bugs filed against me?  No one ships bug free.  That I meet
some random person's idea of aesthetics?  What if I completely
disagree with them?

Will this be like government regulations where they increase year to
year and we have to jump through more hoops all the time just to
continue to have the "honor" of being in Extras?

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Attila Csipa <maemo at csipa.in.rs> wrote:
> 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.

I disagree, it is the gutter.  As a developer I only leave
extras-devel enabled long enough to install my software and test it in
prep for extras-testing.

I'm glad there is demotion support added to or going to be added to
extras-testing so some of the junk in their can be removed.

Maybe to resolve this we should create a second official repository.