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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Hi,</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">I propose that since most devs are asking others to vote for them</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">we remove the whole testing requirement and make promoting to extras-testing something that's at the will of the developer.<br><br>-- <br>Sent from my Nokia N950</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Regards,</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;">Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh</p></div><br><div id="fenix-reply-header"><p>On 12/12/11 05:47 PM Neal H. Walfield wrote:<br></p></div><div id="fenix-quoted-body">Hi,<br><br>I'm afraid that extras is dying due to a lack of interest in testing<br>packages.<br><br>Last month, I uploaded some Woodchuck-related packages to<br>extras-devel. I asked on #maemo a few times for people to test my<br>packages. I asked on this mailing list. And, I asked on<br>talk.maemo.org. In the end, most of the testers were people who I<br>know personally and asked to do me a favor and vote for my package. I<br>doubt that they actually tested it. This is a waste of time: it<br>doesn't improve the quality of packages and my time could be better<br>spent working on my package.<br><br>There is one person who appears to test packages: Harald Schmidt. He<br>has been designated a tester and appears to periodically check<br>extras-testing for new packages.<br><br>Given this, I propose that we use the following criteria for promoting<br>to extras:<br><br> - 10 days incubation (unchanged)<br> - maintainer + 1 designated "testers" (e.g., Harald Schmidt) thumbs up<br> or maintainer + 3 non-testers<br><br>Thoughts?<br><br>Neal<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>maemo-developers mailing list<br>maemo-developers@maemo.org<br>https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers<br></div><br></body></html>