Firstly , I want to make it clear, Im not against testing or QA , I understand the importance of this quite as much as anyone spending more time with S/W than with human beings.

Having said that, I believe its much "easier"(for the lack of a better word ATM) to doctrine the QA process and perform testing of the app than actually develop and maintain one, just considering the fact that is all being done for free (QA included) !
Im not against having a stricter procedure for paid apps however ( I know I'll be blasted for this )
Many little comments that our dear QA leave and give thumbs down too will no doubt "better" the apps, but thats also delaying many good apps and letting down developers somewhere down the line ( be honest here )

Im all for making this the best platform ever for mobile devices, and I seriously think we need better apps than an amazon widget or a weather guide in our portfolio and quick, not next year !
Encouraging paid apps is the other half, which is being discussed elsewhere, the problems with the infrastructure, ovi support etc etc.

All Im saying is we need to reconsider , be a little lenient towards free apps, and they are flagged down for only serious issues, and not for using wrong widgets or colors or buttons being out of place.
You want everybody to follow rules in a free world is going to be a bit challenging.
Apple/Android may have rules but there the dev know they get rewarded for following rules.

Again, I didnt want to change this into a QA vs DEV war or even say that QA is not needed and we need to pass all apps into extras, just saying we need to be a little more cautious in firing dev who do the software purely in the interest of the platform development or for their karma in life

(thumbing down and re-quarantining just because of that is just plain overkill), but still no conclusion there.

so you are suggesting that we must have everything done quick and dirty to extras? lame argument but how many apps have you found at app store that has those misplaced buttons etc?

i also agree that a bug tracker should be mandatory however why cant bugs.maemo.org host all apps bug tracker. as someone else said here why cant the be created automatically as part of the application release process - either to extras dev or extras testing. that way at least you are guaranteed a consistent bug system across all apps!

so you are suggesting that we must have everything done quick and dirty to extras? lame argument but how many apps have you found at app store that has those misplaced buttons etc?

The document you linked Texrat was perfect, I was not sure about the flowchart though for the application usage - is this optional as I dont know about surveys and usage popups!!

Getting bug reporting onto the devices is a major goal of mine, and I can use all the help I can get (that includes you, Attila buddy!). Draft presentation below:

http://maemo-daemons.org/MeeGo_User_..._Framework.pdf