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<p>----- Original message -----
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<br/>> I realise this is a slightly different question (hence the new subject)
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<br/>> OK, say I have an evil twin who wants to attack ('own') a lot of Nokia N900
<br/>> devices. How do I do this?
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<br/>I hope that was retorical. Tell your evil twin to do something usefull.
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<br/>> Does extras-testing factor into this?
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<br/>At least so that I would prefer maemo.org extras to be clean from malware. It is much easier to promote it in Nokia internally when extras contains good software.
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<br/>Tero
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<br/>> David
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<br/>> <a href="mailto:tero.kojo@nokia.com">tero.kojo@nokia.com</a> wrote:
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<br/>> > > On Thu, September 24, 2009 13:01, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
<br/>> > >
<br/>> > > > > > I am well aware of that :)
<br/>> > > > > > But if I go thru extras-testing (and I really want to!) then it
<br/>> > looks
<br/>> > > > > > like the Community has the last word on my application.
<br/>> > > > > >
<br/>> > > > > Yes, they do. It's a community effort, but look at it from the other
<br/>> > > > > side. Not one single person or entitiy can block your app. It
<br/>> > takes more
<br/>> > > > > people to block it.
<br/>> > > > >
<br/>> > > >
<br/>> > > > I know.. but still.. scares me.. :)
<br/>> > > >
<br/>> > > I tried to make this as transparent as possible, by showing each vote
<br/>> > > together with the user. If people are trolling we should be easily be
<br/>> > able
<br/>> > > to spot this.
<br/>> > >
<br/>> > > By letting the community doing this QA out in the open, we can prevent
<br/>> > > rejections without reasoning by a certain entity like we have seen in the
<br/>> > > news lately.
<br/>> >
<br/>> > This transparency is actually the thing that makes me feel secure about
<br/>> > the process. The testers are independent and operate with their own names.
<br/>> >
<br/>> > The (ex-)qa-manager in me is also excited by the fact that for once the
<br/>> > testers are really independant.
<br/>> >
<br/>> > > However, in a democracy not everybody can be satisfied. Let's tackle
<br/>> > > issues when we actually get there.
<br/>> >
<br/>> > Hear hear!
<br/>> > If the process does not work, then it get's changed. If it works we'll
<br/>> > just be happy and discuss how to make it more efficient.
<br/>> >
<br/>> > I'm already thinking that there might be a need for a Maemo testers'
<br/>> > club that makes sure that even niche apps don't get stranded in testing.
<br/>> >
<br/>> > Also I'll take the time to ask Nokia testing to look at the tooling
<br/>> > issue. I would like to have some nice set of tools for testing the
<br/>> > measurable aspects of applications (like battery usage as Igor pointed
<br/>> > out).
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<br/>> > And in any case we need to talk about Anidello's idea on feedback, with
<br/>> > beer or not.
<br/>> >
<br/>> > Tero
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<br/>> --
<br/>> "Don't worry, you'll be fine; I saw it work in a cartoon once..."
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