On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 14:55, David Greaves <da...@dgreaves.com> wrote: > > Does the community really have so much spare resource that we can QA > non-free (and presumably non-community) apps?
fms/RST38h's emulators are non-free. However much I'd prefer to have the source and not special case them, they are useful packages and the author's intention should be respected. Do I want him to go off and create a new repo? No. Is Ovi an alternative? We don't know yet. However, having tested earlier versions of VGBA, iNES and others, I think I can say they went through the normal testing procedure, despite being non-free. The reason pre "-testing" they went directly to Extras was that there was no point going through the auto-builder. Now, however, I think they should be going directly into "-devel" and promoted into "-testing" and Extras proper as per free packages. Whether they get highlighted in a different queue is an interesting question; but will probably push non-Ovi, non-free apps away into their own repositories. The point of community QA is to make sure only good apps get to users: we're doing it because we're selfish. It's not free bug finding for commercial software teams; and so saying "we're only go to QA it for you if you give us the source" would seem to be a change in the purpose and intent of the QA process. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:and...@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/ _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
