Before anyone complains that there are other similar threads, I don't really care, because the the procedures are still what they are. That is, ridiculous, to put it mildly.

Why on earth does the package loose all the votes and nice comments when a new version is uploaded? Not to mention the resetting of the guarantee time back to 10 days! How could this possible encourage to release often and soon? Yeah, a devs could always release often, but the apps would not be publicly available very soon. More like never!

And what is the point of this general 10 days for all apps, no matter how many lines of code? Yes, for a huge office app that does everything from word processing to spreadsheet 10 days is not very long at all, even too short. But if all the app does is to calculate 2 + 2, why the 10 days? So that some unforeseen errors could be spotted? Like what?! Instead of 4 it calculates 5? Oh dear! This is bad! I hope I'm not too presumptuous as to suggest that an error like that could be spotted in less than 10 days. Who knows, there might be some testers that would only need 9.

OK, I'm a venting my frustrations here, I admit. But the current system is a bit annoying, I think. There should be a better one and soon.

For example. The debian packages do include changelog file. Why not include that to the testing page, so that whenever a new version is updated, the tester could see what has been changed and what needs to be retested. Let us not forget that often the update is a result of the testers feedback. So it would be beneficial if the previous comments would remain, in order to see what was suggested and how it was implemented in the new version.

Obviously, whenever code has been changed, new unforeseen bugs can emerge. Therefore some further testing is warranted. But it should not start from zero again, especially if it was a very minor update. Perhaps something like two more votes because of the update, could be required.

Anyway, just to give an example: I got this Currency Converter in Extra-testing. The previous version was missing the help files. But with that the situation was this:


The thumb down was mainly because of the missing help. So I corrected that and now I got this. Also all the nice comments that were there are now lost. It's like this app never exited before.

Cheers!

PS. I hope I haven't offended anyone. I appreciate the hard work you are all doing here.