Adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-07-22 Thread Roman Morawek
Hello, I am the developer of a Maemo Extras Package (http://maemo.org/packages/view/babyphone/) and made a bug-fixing update of it a quarter of a year ago. After 2 weeks I had 2 positive tester votes and 7 positive votes in total. Since then, nothing changed on the status. Thus, it is still

Re: Adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-07-22 Thread Graham Cobb
On Friday 22 July 2011 16:00:31 Roman Morawek wrote: I propose to change the QA process to accelerate extras promoting. A package should be promoted after either: - 1 tester vote - 4 votes in total - 2 months of staying in testing without negative vote I support this for updates to existing

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-28 Thread Attila Csipa
On Thursday 27 January 2011 22:02:36 you wrote: Maybe we could make it easy to leave a numeric rating + let the user pick one of a pre-defined set of labels (that's how it is done in Little Big Planet - it's mandatory to give a numeric rating after playing a community-created level, the label

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-28 Thread Riku Voipio
On 01/27/2011 10:24 AM, ext Thomas Perl wrote: 2011/1/27 Riku Voipio riku.voi...@nokia.com: For new versions, the set of checks should still be shorter and less votes needed. Basically the only check to be done is has the new version any regressions compared to the version already in extras.

R: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-28 Thread emme750
Sorry for my sucks English. I have already written both on the forum that the Council, pointing out that there are still many applications in extras-testing. Some can be already unlocked, but maybe in the meantime some Maintainer were lost. For example, I sent emails to some of these maintainer,

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi! 2011/1/27 Riku Voipio riku.voi...@nokia.com: On 01/25/2011 05:24 PM, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:03, Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com wrote: A new version of an existing application should have a lower barrier to promotion than a new application. It's obvious;

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Patrick Beck
Hi, i have the same problem with my two applications. kfzcheck [1] and kfzcheck-extras [2]. Because many people don't use extras-testing and extras-devel. Lots of people haven't seen the apps and can decide if it can be useful and give feedback to me for improvements. The two apps are now in

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Tomasz Sterna
On czw, 2011-01-27 at 15:16 +0100, Patrick Beck wrote: Because many people don't use extras-testing and extras-devel. Lots of people haven't seen the apps and can decide if it can be useful and give feedback to me for improvements. There are a lot of people using extras-testing and even

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread a.gra...@gmail.com
Hi, On 27 January 2011 16:05, Tomasz Sterna to...@xiaoka.com wrote: There are a lot of people using extras-testing and even extras-devel. Not many of them know or care about the web voting and approval system. +1 :) or better... we need a way to let people know if the application listed come

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 15:09, a.gra...@gmail.com a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 January 2011 16:05, Tomasz Sterna to...@xiaoka.com wrote: There are a lot of people using extras-testing and even extras-devel. Not many of them know or care about the web voting and approval system. or

RE: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Felipe Crochik
-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-boun...@maemo.org] On Behalf Of a.gra...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 10:09 AM To: Tomasz Sterna Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles Hi, On 27 January 2011 16:05, Tomasz Sterna to...@xiaoka.com wrote

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Felipe Crochik
Sorry wrong button Hit reply and not reply to all this is the message I just sent to Andrew: -- Forwarded message -- From: Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com Date: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:24 AM Subject: Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles To: Andrew Flegg and...@bleb.org

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread a.gra...@gmail.com
Hi, On 27 January 2011 16:25, Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com wrote: Sorry if the question is silly but why do you think enhancing HAM is better than creating a new application based on appdownloader, FAP and KISSTester? all I know is that all people I asked to, told me that they would

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Patrick Beck
Hi, at the beginning of the n900 device with maemo 5 many people have seen a risk at installing applications from extras-devel. I think the most important problem was the full rootfs (not optified). I mean after pr1.2 was the problem no more possible, but the users has still not installed apps

RE: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Felipe Crochik
] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 10:29 AM To: Felipe Crochik Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles Hi, On 27 January 2011 16:25, Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com wrote: Sorry if the question is silly but why do you think enhancing HAM is better than

RE: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Felipe Crochik
of Extras QA hurdles Hi, at the beginning of the n900 device with maemo 5 many people have seen a risk at installing applications from extras-devel. I think the most important problem was the full rootfs (not optified). I mean after pr1.2 was the problem no more possible, but the users has still

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Felipe Crochik
Sorry I did again... Here is the message: -Original Message- From: Felipe Crochik [mailto:fel...@crochik.com] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:01 AM To: 'a.gra...@gmail.com' Cc: 'maemo-developers@maemo.org' Subject: RE: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles That is scary :) I have never

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 15:29, a.gra...@gmail.com a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 January 2011 16:25, Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com wrote: Sorry if the question is silly but why do you think enhancing HAM is better than creating a new application based on appdownloader, FAP and KISSTester?

RE: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Patrick Beck
: Thursday, January 27, 2011 10:54 AM To: maemo-developers Subject: Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles BTW. It will be great when anybody can test and vote for kfzcheck ;) I know it was a bit promoting :) signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com wrote: I have to say that I like how the 3 of them work. If we are going to take on making a better tool we should aim high. It needs to be more than an application manager it needs to be a tool for the user to find and decide

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Attila Csipa
On Thursday 27 January 2011 18:07:32 Andrew Flegg wrote: Unless we take extraordinary (and almost certainly self-defeating) actions like requiring KISStester to be installed to use any software from Extras-(devel|testing). In fact, I would very specifically argue against such an approach. The

RE: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Felipe Crochik
...@gmail.com; maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com wrote: I have to say that I like how the 3 of them work. If we are going to take on making a better tool we should aim high. It needs to be more than

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-27 Thread Thomas Perl
Hi Attila and all, 2011/1/27 Attila Csipa ma...@csipa.in.rs: On Thursday 27 January 2011 18:07:32 Andrew Flegg wrote: Unless we take extraordinary (and almost certainly self-defeating) actions like requiring KISStester to be installed to use any software from Extras-(devel|testing). In

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-26 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:57, Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com wrote: Would we still have the requirement of official tester vote(s) or any community member vote will have the same weight? I'm not sure what you mean. As I understand it at the moment, the requirement is that you get 10 votes

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-26 Thread Roman Morawek
Hello Andrew, On 25.01.2011 16:24, Andrew Flegg wrote: Agreed. Proposal: * The first page of http://maemo.org/profile/list/category/products/ are given track-record status. * Other accounts can be given track-record status by two developers who have track-record status or by

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-26 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 13:18, Roman Morawek li...@morawek.at wrote: I just want to remark, that this proposal would not change anything in my specific situation. I'm not listed in the top-products-karma-page and would still need 10 votes, which seems to take very long time. Indeed. This is,

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-26 Thread Riku Voipio
On 01/25/2011 05:24 PM, ext Andrew Flegg wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:03, Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com wrote: A new version of an existing application should have a lower barrier to promotion than a new application. It's obvious; but even a minor change can have an enormous impact.

adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-25 Thread Roman Morawek
Hello, I like to initiate one more discussion on the Maemo Extras QA process. I uploaded a new release of my application (http://maemo.org/packages/view/babyphone/) on 5th of November, so more than 2.5 months ago. Right now, I have 6 positive votes (including mine) - thus 60% of the demanded

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-25 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Roman, Roman Morawek wrote: I uploaded a new release of my application (http://maemo.org/packages/view/babyphone/) on 5th of November, so more than 2.5 months ago. Right now, I have 6 positive votes (including mine) - thus 60% of the demanded hurdle. I guess my application is not one of

RE: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-25 Thread Felipe Crochik
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:15 AM To: Roman Morawek Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles Hi Roman, Roman Morawek wrote: I uploaded a new release of my application (http://maemo.org/packages/view/babyphone/) on 5th of November, so more than 2.5 months

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-25 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Felipe Crochik wrote: snip A new version of an existing application should have a lower barrier to promotion than a new application. Yes. Instead of 10 there should only be 1 required vote. That one vote should not be the developer. No more than 3 votes thought. snip We could put this

Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-25 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:03, Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com wrote: I assume we all agree that the two most important goals for testing are making sure that the developer has good intentions and that the application will not break anything. I know that in a perfect world we also would

RE: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles

2011-01-25 Thread Felipe Crochik
] On Behalf Of Andrew Flegg Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 10:24 AM To: Felipe Crochik Cc: Dave Neary; Roman Morawek; maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: adaptation of Extras QA hurdles On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 15:03, Felipe Crochik fel...@crochik.com wrote: I assume we all agree that the two