Many tested apps in Extras-testing are not promoted timely
 

In Extras testing there are at the moment 222 apps & themes and 44 of them are in status "Promotion unlocked, waiting for maintainter to promote". These 20% is a pretty high number.

How can this be reduced?

Brainstorm at Many tested apps in Extras-testing are not promoted timely

Re: Many tested apps in Extras-testing are not promoted timely
 

In my case it's because of two things:
- I got server error when tried to promote severall my themes right after receiving promotion unlocked -mails

- I can't remember which of my themes are unlocked since there are so many of them. A single page which would show status of all my maintained packages would be more than helpful. Now it's slow to search for all packages and then go and check if the testing version is promotable or not.

Re: Many tested apps in Extras-testing are not promoted timely
 

I’ll try and see with our webmaster if we can resend the promotion emails.

I think there is actually a page for that, but I don’t know the URL by heart. The easiest way, barring that, is just to go to http://maemo.org/packages/repository...xtras-testing/ and see if your packages have *green* karma numbers (which means unlocked).

Re: Many tested apps in Extras-testing are not promoted timely
 

Thanks for your thoughts.
The server issue is really an subotpimal. What do you think of solution 1?
If you had an auto-promote option enabled your packages would get promotion when the server recovered.
How about this list?
If the Karma number is green, the package is unlocked and with 5 pages the list is not to long.
And this list is sorted alphabetically and your packages have all the same prefix.

Nevertheless, maybe you can add more solutions to the brainstorm issue?

Re: Many tested apps in Extras-testing are not promoted timely
 

Thanks for the urls. I cleared the list on my part:
- promoted packages that were PR1.2 compatible
- thumbed down the ones that were not

Re: Many tested apps in Extras-testing are not promoted timely
 

I created a solution suggesting to add an option for a maintainer "will not promote".
What do you think?

Re: Many tested apps in Extras-testing are not promoted timely
 

Is there no possibilty for a package maintainer to demote a package if he does not wish to promote it?

Re: Many tested apps in Extras-testing are not promoted timely
 

What would the rationale be for that ? Testing is a temporary repo before getting to Extras. If you don't want it in extras, you should keep it in extras-devel. If you mean 'will not promote' as in want to remove the package from testing, they just need to thumb their package down.

Re: Many tested apps in Extras-testing are not promoted timely
 

One teensy request - please upload screenshots of the themes on the respective pages (as it is now, they all have the '?' instead of screenshots).

Re: Many tested apps in Extras-testing are not promoted timely
 

Okay, I did not know. The intention was, that a developer might just want to collect some feedback for a alpha/beta version, but does not want to have this version in Extras.