On Monday 08 March 2010 16:21:13 Benoît HERVIER wrote: > - It s look like some users are here just to put thumb down just to > gain some karma.
To elaborate on this a bit... The mass-downthumbing people might see is just a temporary (?) solution to optimize testing resources. The idea is that it should be immediately visible that this package is NOT going to be promoted, so testers should not vaste their time on a particular package, since there is going to be a newer version which will require testing anyway. The worst case scenario is if someone who is not a regular tester thumbs ups a package that never gets to Extras, but fails to do so with the followup package that has the blockers fixed (because of lack of motivation, whatever). So, really, it's just a mechanism used as a replacement for not having a master/moderator that is able to instantly demote a package with a blocker. It's not a bunch thugs that go around extras-testing with a giant thumbs-down bat, even though this is not communicated too well to developers :( And yes, I stated several times I do agree the bugtracker field is a pain that needs to be handled systematically and not fought over on a case-by-case basis. The first step (which is either already implemented, or just about to) is to filter this problem on promotion to -testing, so you don't wait 10 days just to figure out you made a mistake. The second step would be to make it easier/more automatic to insert the bugtracker. I.e. on upload of a new package, you could be asked if you wish to open a b.m.o. product for it, or have a garage tracker offered if the project is hosted there. You could obviously override these with the current XSBC field, but that IMHO would make things easier. On a side note I would make screenshots (where applicable) also mandatory for promotion to -testing, on the same grounds as a bugtracker, but the ideas/message counter is in the red zone already, so I'm going to stop here... :) Regards, Attila _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
