Thread: Community projects having problems with infrastucture
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ivgalvez is offline ivgalvez
2012-04-04 , 17:27
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#31
Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Does that "almost everyone" come from the set of active posters on t.m.o, or from the larger set of N900 owners, an unknown number of which have never heard of maemo.org?

Users already here have an avenue for support when a broken package winds up in Extras. Those not aware of this community will be at the mercy of local shops that likely don't even remember the N900 and Nokia Cares, who probably can offer no suggestion other than a reflash.

I'd prefer an approach that attempts to minimize potential harm.
That almost everyone refers to developers that now don't even care about the whole QA mechanism, because their applications will stay in Testing for ages.

So, as you say, all those users that don't know about TMO and only see the Extras repository think that there are only about 740 applications for their phones while there are far more working and usable applications that won't ever be promoted.

On the other hand, users that find about TMO, enable Devel without the required knowledge and break their systems continuously, just to install an application that might have been promoted long ago.

Of course we shouldn't allow broken packages to be promoted but not having any mechanism for promoting orphaned applications is a nonsense. You don't want it to be automatic? OK, but there should be a way for testers to promote applications.
 

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