On Monday 08 March 2010 18:43:02 Graham Cobb wrote: > Anyway, let's leave the screenshots issue for a separate discussion!
Separated > > 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... :) > > I strongly disagree. The Extras-Testing process should be about safety: > someone browsing extras should be comfortable that if they look at an app > they can get a reasonable description, they can install it without > endangering their device, they can remove it if they don't like it. It is > not about the quality of the app itself: its usability, its GUI, how well The testing process is not *just* about safety. It's quality assurance, and there is a lot more to quality than just safety. For instance, we already handle bad or missing icons as blockers (and I believe we will agree icons and screenshots aren't that far in regard to safety). > it works, whether it is useful, whether it has screen shots, etc -- that is > what crowd-sourced rating systems are about (the stars, the reviews, the > comments). Any app without a screenshot is not going to get good comments > or make its way to the front page of the Downloads section. Poor apps will > drop to the bottom -- but being at the bottom does NOT mean they should be > excluded. And this is were we get back to screenshots - a first time application is almost guaranteed to have '?' there for quite a while. The interface is (from testing squad experience) less than intuitive for people and it takes a while for the images to update - usually just as much as they spend on the front page, effectively spending their 5 minutes of glory under a question mark. Regards, Attila _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
