On Tue, March 9, 2010 09:22, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > Attila Csipa wrote: > >> want better quality software, developers, testers, users, everybody. >> Let's >> make Extras-testing a place where we help applications get to Extras by >> improving them, not just kick them back to extras-devel, screaming. >> Thank you. >> > > I agree with Graham: I'd like the quarantine process to be only about > critical problems, such as app not being optified, making the device > unstable or not meeting some basic formal criteria (such as bugtracker > link).
You have to see that Extras should be for applications that are of a high quality. The Extras repository should not give any problems to people who are new to Maemo and have no clue how to work with linux for instance. Developers who want to have their applications available for the largest audience possible, should consider this. If adding a link to a bugtracker is too hard for a developer, can we really expect a quality application from them? > I'm porting maemo-mapper to the N900; it is an application with a billion > of features, and some of them are not working correctly, and the UI for > certain operations is still unusable on the N900. Still, the application > works fine and is perfectly usable for basic usage and it seems not to be > harmful for the device. So, I wouldn't like it to be blocked from Extras > just because some feature don't work (for instance, one commenter wrote on > the testing page that he considers the absence of VirtualEarth maps to be > a blocker, so he didn't vote for it, despite liking it). For Extras we really should aim for having end-user ready apps. We haven't been too strict about it, but we as a community should try to be on the same level as, or above Ovi ;) If your app works but is not yet ready for prime time, then consider what your audience is. Technical users will know where to find it. As to voting for features that are not in the list of items to be tested for, this should be solved by better documentation and explanations on the voting pages. Now new testers really don't know what to expect and use the voting as like/don't like. > > If applications are ugly or not completely working (but still not > harmful), I'd like them to have a bad rating, of course, but still be > available on Extras. > I'm not sure about this. I think we need to grow up a bit and aim for something better than 'it works'. > Ciao, > Alberto > -- Niels Breet maemo.org webmaster _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
