On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:15:57PM +0200, Quim Gil wrote: > Hi, > > ext Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > I am hesitant here, some of the testing process may require source > > packages, either now or in the future. I am not certain that non-free > > packages deserve to get all the free quality assurance that the > > community provides. I think they should be grateful that they are > > included at all and if they want to go through testing, they need to > > at least provide a source package. > > So the questions is in fact non-technical: > > - Do you want non-free apps showing up in > http://maemo.org/packages/repository/qa/fremantle_extras-testing/ ?
Absolutely. If non-free apps can go to Extras by bypassing testing, that defeats the whole purpose of the QA process. The average end-user doesn't know or care about the difference between "free" and "non-free", but if something he installed from maemo.org Extras did something bad or didn't work, that's extremely bad for maemo.org and extras as a whole. The other route you can take is to not accept non-free apps into extras at all. > - Do you want non-free apps showing up in > http://maemo.org/downloads/Maemo5/ ? Why not, if they have gone through the same quality gate as free apps. > Testers with a strong opinion about open source might not be interested > at all on this, but other users might be indeed interested in becoming > betatesters of a non-free app in exchange of checking the lastest > versions some days/weeks before regular users get them in Ovi or elsewhere. I perfectly understand this view but I hope this is also looked from the end user's p-o-v. Cheers, Jari _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
