Re: Testing marathon QA Feedback

2009-11-03 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, In general I think that new apps should tend to get all ratings reseted if they go back to extras-devel because of a blocker, while app updates would keep their current positive ratings through new extras-testing iterations. This way we are conservative with new apps but more liberal with

UX meets Code hackfest in December @ Barcelona: confirmed!

2009-11-03 Thread Andrea Grandi
Hi all, Quim just confirmed the UX hackfest in Barcelona for 4, 5, 6 december: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=33719 What is UX hackfest? It's a three days meeting for Maemo developers, UX experts and people who want to learn about designing good user interfaces. When? On 4, 5, 6

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-03 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/3 Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net: On Monday 02 November 2009 21:52:48 Jeremiah Foster wrote: On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:27, Ed Bartosh wrote: 2009/11/2 Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com: On Nov 1, 2009, at 18:05, Ed Bartosh wrote: Idea of having separate queue for Extras

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-03 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/3 Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net: On Monday 02 November 2009 12:16:57 Ed Bartosh wrote: 2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: The buildbot would need to run apt-get install maemo-optify at the right time.  Any idea of how to do that? Right way to do it is to include it

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net writes: On Monday 02 November 2009 12:16:57 Ed Bartosh wrote: 2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: The buildbot would need to run apt-get install maemo-optify at the right time.  Any idea of how to do that? Right way to do it is to include

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com writes: To beat the horse dead; foo_1.0-1maemo0 - bug fix - foo_1.0-1maemo1 = All karma retained foo_1.0-1maemo0 - feature - foo_1.1-1maemo0 = Karma set to zero Nitpick: 1.0 - 1.1 might well be a bug fix release as well.

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-03 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/3 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: ext Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net writes: On Monday 02 November 2009 12:16:57 Ed Bartosh wrote: 2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: The buildbot would need to run apt-get install maemo-optify at the right time.  Any idea of

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: We can hack dpkg-checkbuilddeps to unconditionally add maemo-optify to the list of build dependencies. Ouch. That's very desperate. What about changing dpkg-buildpackage to run apt-get install maemo-optify if necessary? That concentrates the hacks in

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-03 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/3 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: We can hack dpkg-checkbuilddeps to unconditionally add maemo-optify to the list of build dependencies. Ouch.  That's very desperate. May be. But not as desperate as calling apt-get install from

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-03 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: 2009/11/3 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: We can hack dpkg-checkbuilddeps to unconditionally add maemo-optify to the list of build dependencies. Ouch.  That's very desperate. May be. But not as

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 08:43, Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com wrote: ext Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com writes: To beat the horse dead;       foo_1.0-1maemo0  - bug fix - foo_1.0-1maemo1 = All karma retained       foo_1.0-1maemo0  - feature - foo_1.1-1maemo0 = Karma set

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-03 Thread Ed Bartosh
2009/11/3 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: 2009/11/3 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: ext Ed Bartosh bart...@gmail.com writes: We can hack dpkg-checkbuilddeps to unconditionally add maemo-optify to the list of build dependencies.

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-03 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 3, 2009, at 1:17, Attila Csipa wrote: A bit short on time, so could not reply to many good posts, but would not like to drop out of the discussion... This is a very important discussion I feel, you have raised some important issues and there has been some insightful feedback from

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-03 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 3, 2009, at 2:26, Attila Csipa wrote: 1) The fact that something builds in the pristine final SDK does not guarantee that it will go through the autobuilder (as extras-devel might contain non- backwards compatible updates to the SDK packages). So the SDK and Extras-devel need to

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-03 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:25, Ed Bartosh wrote: You mention separate queue but which queue are you referring to? Does the suggestion involve additional repositories? And/or does it involve differnet rules for which repositories will be in scope during a build? Or what. As I understood

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:16, Andrew Flegg wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 08:43, Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com wrote: ext Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com writes: To beat the horse dead; foo_1.0-1maemo0 - bug fix - foo_1.0-1maemo1 = All karma retained

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Henrik Hedberg
On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:16, Andrew Flegg wrote: Agreed. -maemo0 to -maemo1 is supposed to be a Maemo-specific change or a packaging change (AIUI). Native packages (such as Hermes, Attitude etc.) don't have that suffix and use a traditional x.y.z numbering scheme. Not necessarily. There is

Re: How to get a transparent GtkWindow (fremantle)

2009-11-03 Thread Luca Donaggio
I'm still banging my head against a wall with this: why without reparenting the popup undecorated window to the main app window it becomes transparent but the app menu doesn't work (it starts to be drawn but immediately disappears) and viceversa? The final version of my function is this: void

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 13:58, Henrik Hedberg henrik.hedb...@innologies.fi wrote: On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:16, Andrew Flegg wrote: Agreed. -maemo0 to -maemo1 is supposed to be a Maemo-specific change or a packaging change (AIUI). Native packages (such as Hermes, Attitude etc.) don't have that

Re: How to get a transparent GtkWindow (fremantle)

2009-11-03 Thread Kimmo Hämäläinen
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 15:06 +0100, ext Luca Donaggio wrote: I'm still banging my head against a wall with this: why without reparenting the popup undecorated window to the main app window it becomes transparent but the app menu doesn't work (it starts to be drawn but immediately disappears)

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Frank Banul
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 13:58, Henrik Hedberg henrik.hedb...@innologies.fi wrote: On Nov 3, 2009, at 12:16, Andrew Flegg wrote: Agreed. -maemo0 to -maemo1 is supposed to be a Maemo-specific change or a packaging change

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 14:34, Frank Banul frank.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org wrote: Except how do you try to prevent abuse (whether intentional or accidental)? At least with the version number you've got some safety check (although it is

Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Till Harbaum
Hi, there's another problem with the testing i am facing with gpxview: Nonsense ratings. GPXView got a thumbs down for needing lots of porting to match the maemo6 gui. Yes, harmattan! Why the heck should a fremantle program not be forwarded to extras due to the fact that it will be hard to port

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Gary Birkett
Till, I totally agree, it is not part of the testing regime itself and as long as an app is technically capable it passes the test. the checklist has been defined here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist Maemo 5 offers stock icons covering most regular use cases, but developers

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/11/3 Till Harbaum li...@harbaum.org: Hi, there's another problem with the testing i am facing with gpxview: Nonsense ratings. GPXView got a thumbs down for needing lots of porting to match the maemo6 gui. Yes, harmattan! Why the heck should a fremantle program not be forwarded to

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-03 Thread Anderson Lizardo
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs wrote: I have a small issue with the autobuilder. The whole thing started out by having a package that compiled nice in the SDK but not in the autobuilder due to a versioning mismatch (in my case python-dbus, but it's a generic

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Henrik Hedberg
Till Harbaum wrote: there's another problem with the testing i am facing with gpxview: Nonsense ratings. GPXView got a thumbs down for needing lots of porting to match the maemo6 gui. Yes, harmattan! Why the heck should a fremantle program not be forwarded to extras due to the fact that

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-03 Thread Anderson Lizardo
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Anderson Lizardo anderson.liza...@openbossa.org wrote: But the PyMaemo team is still responsible for providing upgrades and fixes for these packages through the extras-devel/extras-testing repositories, and the user applications that use packages like

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 03.11.2009, 15:59 +0100 schrieb Till Harbaum: - Add a link to the bug tracker, so people can file appropriate bugs which can then be processed in a useful manner Possible already - add a Bugtracker field to the control file if I remember correctly. Also see

Re: How to get a transparent GtkWindow (fremantle)

2009-11-03 Thread Luca Donaggio
2009/11/3 Kimmo Hämäläinen kimmo.hamalai...@nokia.com On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 15:06 +0100, ext Luca Donaggio wrote: I'm still banging my head against a wall with this: why without reparenting the popup undecorated window to the main app window it becomes transparent but the app menu

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-03 Thread Henrik Hedberg
Anderson Lizardo wrote: But the PyMaemo team is still responsible for providing upgrades and fixes for these packages through the extras-devel/extras-testing repositories, and the user applications that use packages like python-dbus, when promoted, will automatically promote the

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Henrik Hedberg
2009/11/3 Till Harbaum li...@harbaum.org: there's another problem with the testing i am facing with gpxview: Nonsense ratings. GPXView got a thumbs down for needing lots of porting to match the maemo6 gui. Yes, harmattan! Why the heck should a fremantle program not be forwarded to

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread ds
I am quite unhappy with the testing, too. My package vncviewer has a blocking issue (Bugtracker field), which should be marked on the package page! http://maemo.org/packages/package_instance/view/fremantle_extras-testing_free_armel/vncviewer/0.6.3-fremantle2 Not every developer is following the

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Andre Klapper
Am Dienstag, den 03.11.2009, 17:05 +0100 schrieb ds: An other problem are security issues: How do you think a tester could find a security issue in such an application? It is totaly impossible, if you do not have access to a prepared vnc server. Should we assume the vnc server to be prepared?

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-03 Thread Attila Csipa
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 16:30:26 you wrote: I'm interested to know what problems you are having with python-dbus. Can you please fill a bug report under https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PyMaemo ? And last but not the least, the python-dbus version you are referring (-1maemo3)

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-03 Thread Attila Csipa
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 14:23:10 Jeremiah Foster wrote: As I understood Attila he proposed to create separate autobulder incoming queue for Extras updates. Ah, a separate build queue. If packages are uploaded to this queue they're built using only Extras and SDK repos and put into

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Murray Cumming
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 15:59 +0100, Till Harbaum wrote: there's another problem with the testing i am facing with gpxview: Nonsense ratings. GPXView got a thumbs down for needing lots of porting to match the maemo6 gui. Yes, harmattan! Why the heck should a fremantle program not be forwarded

Promoting packages not under user/* sections, e.g. libraries (was: Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?)

2009-11-03 Thread Anderson Lizardo
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Henrik Hedberg henrik.hedb...@innologies.fi wrote: Anderson Lizardo wrote: But the PyMaemo team is still responsible for providing upgrades and fixes for these packages through the extras-devel/extras-testing repositories, and the user applications that use

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Murray Cumming
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 15:21 +, Gary Birkett wrote: I totally agree, it is not part of the testing regime itself and as long as an app is technically capable it passes the test. the checklist has been defined here: http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist Assuming that you

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Aniello Del Sorbo
2009/11/3 Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com: I don't claim to know what the aims of the testing are. But I did see this on the main testing page: http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing#The_extras-testing_QA_queue_.26_you Offering good quality community software to owners of Maemo devices is

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 16:56, Aniello Del Sorbo ani...@gmail.com wrote: I missed this point while reading it. And it convinced me to push to Extras Testing a new release of Xournal no matter if it loses the 7 thumbs up it already got (plus the 3 it got for a previous version) I also think

Re: Testing nonsense

2009-11-03 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 3, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Till Harbaum wrote: snip/ I'd just like to interject that any new process like this is going to have growing pains. You have two options to deal with the kinks that inevitably appear in an untried process, help to smooth them out (See the QA process = bug

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-03 Thread Anderson Lizardo
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs wrote: On Tuesday 03 November 2009 16:30:26 you wrote: I'm interested to know what problems you are having with python-dbus. Can you please fill a bug report under https://bugs.maemo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PyMaemo ? And last

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Tim Teulings
Hello! Except how do you try to prevent abuse (whether intentional or accidental)? At least with the version number you've got some safety check (although it is in no way comprehensive). It also requires more changes at more levels (I bet), so harder to implement. I think it is time to

Re: Autobuilder repository priority ?

2009-11-03 Thread Attila Csipa
Foreword: My particular problem is not that big of an issue, in the end I went for extras-devel compatibility, no big deal, it's not yet for end users anyway. It's the generic approach that is at question here - tomorrow someone else will fall through the same manhole and it might become a

Re: maemo-optify, autobuilder /opt

2009-11-03 Thread Graham Cobb
Dammit, why won't modest do proper quoting... Marius (I think) wrote... ext Graham Cobb g+...@cobb.uk.net writes: On Monday 02 November 2009 12:16:57 Ed Bartosh wrote: 2009/11/2 Marius Vollmer marius.voll...@nokia.com: The buildbot would need to run apt-get install maemo-optify at the

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Gary Birkett
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Jeremiah Foster jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com wrote: snip And despite various complaints, many are saying that the process will in fact produce better software. So we are in the right area anyway. here here. teething troubles and getting used to a different

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 3, 2009, at 20:36, Henrik Hedberg wrote: Tim Teulings wrote: Except how do you try to prevent abuse (whether intentional or accidental)? At least with the version number you've got some safety check (although it is in no way comprehensive). It also requires more changes at more

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Henrik Hedberg
Tim Teulings wrote: Except how do you try to prevent abuse (whether intentional or accidental)? At least with the version number you've got some safety check (although it is in no way comprehensive). It also requires more changes at more levels (I bet), so harder to implement. I think it

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Nov 3, 2009, at 19:25, Tim Teulings wrote: P.S.: Don't trust my version numbers! Trust my checkbox choice! That is totally fine with me. I thought a version number was less intrusive, developers didn't have to do anything, just remember which part of their version to change. But as

Re: QA process = bug fixing disincentive?

2009-11-03 Thread Andrew Flegg
Jeremiah wrote: On Nov 3, 2009, at 19:25, Tim Teulings wrote: P.S.: Don't trust my version numbers! Trust my checkbox choice! That is totally fine with me. I thought a version number was less  intrusive, developers didn't have to do anything, just remember which  part of their version to