Till,<br><br>I totally agree, it is not part of the testing regime itself and as long as an app is technically capable it passes the test.<br>the checklist has been defined here:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist">http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist</a><br>
<br><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Maemo 5 offers stock icons covering most regular use cases, but
developers can use the icons they prefer as long as they respect
copyrights. Broken icons can be a major bug stopping a release to
Extras <b>but discussions about beauty/ugliness of a UI are out of scope
in the QA process</b>.
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br>I hope the testing interface can be adjusted to explain the purpose because I see a lot of ui/feature creep suggestion in the comments.<br><br>Whilst the specific apps may not look/feel/perform exactly as we would like it is wrong to block access because of this.<br>
<br>Use outside methods, discuss patches and changes with the developer for future versions but we need to work together to get as many stable apps into extras as possible.<br><br>
(Incidentally, in the specific example you cite, I think its a typo for the version) <br><br>Gary<br> </div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Till Harbaum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@harbaum.org">lists@harbaum.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
<br>
there's another problem with the testing i am facing with gpxview: Nonsense ratings.<br>
GPXView got a "thumbs down" for needing lots of porting to match the maemo6 gui.<br>
Yes, harmattan! Why the heck should a fremantle program not be forwarded to<br>
extras due to the fact that it will be hard to port it to qt (which is what that guy<br>
is imho trying to say)?<br>
<br>
I am considering to entirely ignore the test process until this testing/promotion thing<br>
has actually proven to be useful. Dealing with people that just rate nonsense issues is<br>
a) a waste of time and b) frustrating.<br>
<br>
My proposals:<br>
- Add links to the apps changelogs to the package rating page<br>
- Add a small text telling the people what they are supposed to test (not harmattan<br>
gui portability!!)<br>
- Add a link to the bug tracker, so people can file appropriate bugs which can then<br>
be processed in a useful manner<br>
<br>
Till<br>
<br>
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