[maemo-developers] Adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

[From: Roman Morawek]

Hello,

I am the developer of a Maemo Extras Package
(http://maemo.org/packages/view/babyphone/) and made a bug-fixing update
of it a quarter of a year ago.

After 2 weeks I had 2 positive tester votes and 7 positive votes in
total. Since then, nothing changed on the status. Thus, it is still
blocked from promotion.

Fortunately the bug-fix is only of funtional matter and no security
problem. Nevertheless, for me this situation is demotivating.

Looking in the extras-testing queue I see even packages below the voting
threshold beeing there for nearly a year.

I propose to change the QA process to accelerate extras promoting.
A package should be promoted after either:
- 1 tester vote
- 4 votes in total
- 2 months of staying in testing without negative vote

I think that this increases the chance that Maemo 5 packages keep
maintained and the platform stays alive for longer period.

Best regards,
Roman

P.S.: With nearly every release of my package the situation was the
same. Everytime I proposed an adaptation of the QA process - without
success. Maybe it works out this time.