[maemo-users] Steve's Ranty Review #1: N800 ogg support and the repository question

[From: James Sparenberg]

On Friday 19 October 2007 09:30:50 Steve Greenland wrote:
> According to Krischan Keitsch <krischan.keitsch at alumni.tu-berlin.de>:
> > The optimum may be between the two - meaning we need some kind of
> > a quality management for the community efforts. To approve that
> > just verified and checked apps are in the official and universe
> > repositories. So that Jill Random and ourselves can benefit from rock
> > solid high quality apps. What do you think?
>
> Who is going to do the testing and certification? It's a lot of work,
> and not particularly rewarding. And I can guarantee that sooner or later
> some developers will feel personally maltreated by any such group.
>
> Probably the easiest workable solution is something like the Debian
> unstable/testing process, whereby packages are uploaded to unstable, and
> migrate to testing after meeting certain criteria (no new serious bugs,
> installs with only other testing packages, etc.)
>
> But I'd settle for just getting people to use one repo, rather than
> setting up there own.
>
> Regards,
> Steve

Heck I'm hoping for an agreement on how to spell "Utilities"  (Ok cheap shot 
meant to be humorous not mean.)  But case sensitive does yield fun in this 
area.

James