[maemo-developers] Package promoting

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 13:09, Polyvertex <polyvertex at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think the maintainer should always have the ability to promote the
                                ^^^^^^
> package to extras by himself [...]

Short answer: no. No way. Not going to happen.

Super testers, the Testing Squad, continual improvements to the QA
rules and process and tools like KISStester are the answers.

One could argue that perhaps a package which has been in Testing for
over X months, with *no* negative votes and more than 2 positive
votes, could be unlocked - because no-one's using it and so the level
of harm is perhaps low. But, as Attila's said, there are other
approaches being used to reduce the probability of that happening.

No matter the QA process, some developers will always feel that their
code is perfect and doesn't need to be tested - but developers make
rubbish testers of their own code. The challenge is to get the balance
right, and I'm fairly convinced that we're very close to the right
balance now.

Cheers,

Andrew

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