[maemo-developers] Extras-testing improvements

[From: Tim Teulings]

Hello!

> myself. But poor quality applications reflect badly on maemo.org
> community as well. Do you want to be part of a community which is known

Right. But for this we have rating and another repository does not really
help solving this. If this results in extras containing 100 5 star rated
applications and 10000 one star rated applications in some other
extras-authors repository Nokia is not not happy either. Who is to blame?
If on the other hand if the repository is full of one star rated
application who is to blame, too ;-)? Another repository is just hiding
things but it does not make applications better or the repository
containing more applications (which seem to be unsurpising interests in
extras). As Graham stated there are other ways required to improve this.

> for its low quality standards? Notice that the current extras-testing QA
> requirements are quite low:

I agree. I don't thing that the requirements are a real problem. But the
current process seems sub-optimal. Possibly the goal of the extras
repository has to be clearified (not changed!). If the process gets simpler
we may even be able to add further checks (not blockers). I especially
would be interested in automatic tests if possible.

-- 
Gruß...
    Tim