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#42
Originally Posted by freemangordon View Post
No matter that (maybe) I am the most anti-crappatch person here, I have to unpleasantly agree with Estel - we should modify the rules for extras in such a way that maintainers to be given a chance to fix/withdraw broken packages from extras. Along with a definition of what is "fubar package in extras". And if they don't fix/withdraw them, there should be a procedure to be followed.

I think extras-testing should not be changed, IMO it is fine.
Nope, there are clear rules (http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist) and testers are supposed to obey those. If testers fail and do a fake approval based on doing developer a favour, if then somebody like sixwheeledbeast comes up with a proper bug report (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1328060) and developer answers he can't fix the bugs (http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1328130), when further the bug report clearly shows that there are critical issues with the package, then we don't need to publish new rules or anything, and we don't need to give developer another chance to react. What we must do is remove those packages from extras and extras-testing repositories. It has been discussed thoroughly and comprehensively on a public council meeting, and we decided upon it there. Now e're going to execute that decision. Time for discussions been before and during that meeting.

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jOERG
[edit: just a footnote - I'm not a friend of spending weeks to set up rules for each niche case that shouldn't even happen if the already existing rules wouldve been followed. Rather allow those who care about stuff to handle things according to the particular case and trust in their common sense. We already spent hours to decide how to handle this particular case, and we discussed it with quite a number of community people in public, before we decided. I don't see the point in making that another ruleset, rather make sure we never again need to deal with a similar situation. I.E. review testing rules, who may test and how results of testers get handled]
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