On Wednesday 21 July 2010 22:53:43 Roman Morawek wrote: >P.S.: You are welcome to evaluate and vote on my package:
Indeed, the best strategy for developers is to lobby a bit for their application. Open a thread on talk.maemo.org . Blog about it. Write to the list. I hope the fellow devs won't take this the wrong way, but... this aspect is actually a feature, not a bug, as it encourages discussion and interaction/community building, not the fully disconnected 'dump in extras' and 'download moar apps' approach. Obviously being delayed for months is very bad, so we're constantly exploring ways to improve the process, but... > Maybe an automatic promotion after 4 weeks would make sense, given its > actual package karma is positive? ...the problem with automatic promotion is that then we don't really have any guarantee that what gets to stable has actually been tested - and the testing should be at least as much about protecting users from obvious faults as providing feedback to developers. If we enable automatic promotion, that actually might discourage testing due to the 'why bother, its going to get to Extras anyway' factor. Note that since not long ago we also have super-testers, people with proven track records, it's enough to get three of their votes if your package is stuck and you're good to go. >I personally see my program as very useful - well, otherwise I wouldn't >have spent the time for development. I assume that just nobody is aware >of it, since everybody just looks at the available programs in extras. Even now the problem is not that people are not finding the app, the download number tells apps in testing have thousands of downloads - it's the feedback that is missing, IMO for two reasons: one, users not accustomed to give feedback, and two, the unavailability to give feedback EASILY. This is being worked on, but progress is slow, sadly. Ideas (but preferably hands) are welcome on improving the process. PS. And the part I dont understand: we have 25+ apps that are unlocked and not being promoted by their respective authors. Orphans ? _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
