[maemo-developers] Package promoting

[From: Polyvertex]

Understood. That's only a part of my point.

My main concern is that users don't always vote and do feedbacks plus
the fact they currently don't know where to go if they want to. This
is a fact.
This problem cannot be seen with popular and visible applications but
it becomes a blocking one with small applications, hence my initial
post : the extras repository contains a too old version of my
application since too long, and the right version is stuck into
extras-testing. This is also a fact.

When I expose those two facts here, the answers I get is that things
has been drastically improved since Chinook/Diablo epoch and one is
even happy about the nature of my complain. Great.
You see, in my example, I am perfectly aware that the testing version
of my application will never reach this 10 karmas score and that it
will be unlocked only because time has passed. This is a problem.

Cheers,
Jean-Charles


On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:45, Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 23 September 2010 09:10:08 Polyvertex wrote:
>> Also, this does not mean it has to become anarchy and
>> application/virus/bug bombing just because there are 2 repositories
>> instead of 3.
>
> If that is your main concern, I think it is easily addressed.  There are 3
> repositories instead of 2 because there are many cases where a package is
> built (and automatically put into extras-devel) but the developer does not
> want to start the testing process yet.  Maybe they discovered an important
> bug just after they submitted the build, or they have only created half the
> functionality but wanted to check it builds in the autobuilder, or they have
> not yet completed the icons or the help but they want other members of their
> team to be able to start doing some testing, or they are responsible for a
> library and need the various applications which use the library to try it
> out, or ...
>
> There is no time delay on moving from extras-devel to extras-testing.  *That*
> is the step that happens purely based on the developer's own opinion.  They
> can do it in minutes or they can wait weeks -- up to them.
>
> Extras-devel is not a testing repository, it is an integration repository --
> it is where things go for the developer to check it really built correctly
> and for the developer to check it works with the latest versions of other
> components (mainly libraries).
>
> Graham
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