I was hoping to spark a discussion, and I think it worked out better than I was expecting for a rant.
My thoughts on extras: (maybe instead of karma it should be called extras credit?). * I don't do games, so I would consider user/games as cluttered as someone else might consider user/cli. I don't have a solution except a good hierarchy. Clutter tends to be anything you don't want or like. * There are a lot of good bits of discussion, but my original point is that only user/* is visible, so going outside requires a "red pill" kind of hack (and my complaint is that it doesn't auto-restore). Anything which expands user/* to XYZ/* needs to have XYZ in the extras-tester promotion system and in the application manager. Maybe a universe/ or multiverse/ or advanced/ - just create something, support it, and tell me where I can put something. * Some apps will have hundreds of users, some only a handful, but all require the same amount of Karma to approve. Same with complex and critical apps v.s. simple (see below). * Requiring a reason for "thumbs down" would probably be a good idea. * As pointed out Karma needs some persistence so trivial changes can be checked and promoted quickly but new versions can be tested (and possibly beta3 inherit from beta2). Perhaps after getting a base karma I can set how much karma I think it needs before it can be promoted. You might need to trust developers, but karma should be different for a simple picture viewer v.s. a security application. * Also I should be able to pull and replace a version or some documentation when the build doesn't change any actual code. There seems to be no way to do this. * The karma promoter could be a mini bug-reporting system. It isn't designed to be bugzilla, but for an app there could be a URL somewhere to a talk discussion or bugzilla or email or something else for the bigger things with patches, screenshots, but simple "the button is half off the screen" can be put into a karma comment. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
