[maemo-developers] adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Thursday 27 January 2011 22:02:36 you wrote:
> Maybe we could make it easy to leave a numeric rating + let the user
> pick one of a pre-defined set of labels (that's how it is done in
> Little Big Planet - it's mandatory to give a numeric rating after
> playing a community-created level, the "label" or tagging part can be
> skipped). So for example, after using an application, you can rate it
> from 1 star to 5 stars (which will be automatically synced with the
> website, ideally) and you can also pick one label that describes the
> application (i.e. "cool", "useful", "rubbish", "accelerometers",
> "audio", "video", "crashing", "funny", "boring", "online", "contacts",
> "productive", "needs work", ... - you can see a list of "labels" on
> the LBP website: http://lbp.me/search?labels=) that doesn't really
> categorize the application, but gives a different kind of feedback
> without the useless short comments. Of course, this "rate after usage"
> feature could be turned off by default or made easy to deactivate
> globally.

This is all really cool, but... don't take it the wrong way... not what extras 
QA is about. I.e. at that stage we should not really care about cool/uncool, 
productive or not, etc. It is a rather technical thing, does it 
break/bork/confuse/conflict with something/policies or not. I can see how this 
can be good for Extras in general, but not really how it would help the QA 
hurdles.

Best regards,
Attila Csipa