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HI,

after some discussion we finally have defined quality assurance(QA) rules for command line applications, these apps should address two extras checks in order to be promoted to Extras:

* The application uses the CLI icon[1] in the application manager.
* The application description clearly says that the application only runs from the command line.

Big thanks to Tim Samoff for his work in the CLI icon.

[1] - http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing...e_applications
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Maybe you should write out what Q&A stands for. I read it as quality assurane, but inexperienced developers (part of the target audience) might not know about the abbreviation. Also it should be QA, since Q&A usually means questions & answers.

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Maybe you should write out what Q&A stands for. I read it as quality assurane, but inexperienced developers (part of the target audience) might not know about the abbreviation. Also it should be QA, since Q&A usually means questions & answers.

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Err, your are right I've a bad habit of using Q&A instead of QA, thanks for pointing.
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Thanks for setting these rules. I guess it's a bit late to make suggestions, but I wonder if using the word "terminal" would have been better than "command line" as the mandatory text in the description, to more helpfully guide users as to how to find the program.
 
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Thanks for setting these rules. I guess it's a bit late to make suggestions, but I wonder if using the word "terminal" would have been better than "command line" as the mandatory text in the description, to more helpfully guide users as to how to find the program.
There's no mandatory words, the description only have to say that the application only runs from the command line/terminal/x-terminal, but please something less geeky as possible .
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There's no mandatory words, the description only have to say that the application only runs from the command line/terminal/x-terminal, but please something less geek as possible .
"Terminal command line" covers it nicely.
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So there's an icon to indicate which apps are paid apps?

That's not confusing. :/
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Originally Posted by VDVsx View Post
after some discussion we finally have defined quality assurance(QA) rules for command line applications, these apps should address two extras checks in order to be promoted to Extras:

* The application uses the CLI icon[1] in the application manager.
* The application description clearly says that the application only runs from the command line.
Sounds good to me. To avoid confusion, do these rules also apply to things like daemons or just interactive apps?
 

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Does this is final this time ? As all QA rules changing everytimes is really annoying ...

This are slowly forcing dev to create there own repository.
 

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