Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

I know that the Q&A system needs improvements and we’re experiencing some outage due to the servers move, well that’s the reason why this is a challenge :)

The deal is, test the apps currently in Extras-testing in order to promote them to Extras and make them available for all N900 users, simple isn’t ?

Currently we’ve 82 free apps in Extras, so we need 18 more, to make things even simpler for you, I made a list with apps that in my opinion are ready for Extras. I chose the apps below because they don’t have any flaws reported so far, and also because they can be in Extras before the end of the year respecting the 10 days of quarantine required by the Q&A criteria. Feel free to suggest any app that I missed, commenting here.

List here: http://www.valeriovalerio.org/?p=308

Remember that the Software hosted in Extras-testing might have problems, so please report properly any problem found, you can find more information about the Extras-testing in these links:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing

http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing/QA_Checklist

We only need 18, but we’ve 50 candidates, let’s see the power of the Maemo Community :)

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

I've you had told yesterday, I could have pushed moodlight, too :-)
It works well and now includes LED flashlight mode. Will promote it ASAP.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Eheh, don't worry more initiatives will come, I've more ideas to kick testing, but we need improvements in the infrastructure first.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Your link doesn't seem to be working. Can you post the link here?

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Awesome. Now I know why I can't promote conky yet. I'd obviously not noticed the 10 days of quarantine rule when flipping through the docs.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Which link ? The above ones work for me.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Great initiative! I'll use some time in my holidays to help. :)

BUT please let's not lower the testing standard in order to get more apps in Extras faster. We have got already 3 apps that had relatively evident blockers that ended up in Extras with +10 people giving thumbs up. Sooner or later these promotions slash back with e.g. upset/confused users.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Nice nice, more to come.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

That's one of the many problems that we have in the Q&A process, I think we all agree that those apps must be reported and demoted.
I strongly believe that most of the Q&A issues can be fixed when we implemented the proposed changes for the package interface, then these situations will be harder to happen.
I also have other ideas to improve the testing process, I will put these in discussion after holidays (testing app of the day, team of testers, ...) .

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Just off top of my head:

emelfm2
Garnet VM

and the whole 9 yards listed here :-)

bun

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Well now that I found out I'm not working full-time over my winter break I can test apps. =P

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

97 there... 3 to go :D

Don't forget to test the older apps in the queue as well, here are some that need testers love :D:

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...er/1.0-maemo7/

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...ridge/0.2.4-4/

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...ltower/0.03-1/

http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...ntral/1.0.9-1/

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Solutions welcome: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=38014

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

It is impossible to log in. Maemo garage work fine, but from there to the actual "thumbs" page and I get logged out, and when trying to log in I only get wrong username/password.

Besides, there is no direct link to the pages either from the start page (www.maemo.org)

And why all these different accounts? one for bugs, one for talk one garage, and whatnot.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Now the log-in worked all of a sudden. Guess I didn't wait the required 30-60 ?? minutes.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Same here. Had to wait for quite a while to make it working.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Can we get a massive round of applause for our devs and testers please!!!! Popping champagne corks, cheers, fireworks...

We made our 100 with room to spare (and even a few hours if you're in GMT)

Congratulations to the Clever People who make it happen.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Great work guys. Next challenge is to have 1000 apps until 2011 comes.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Impressive!
Thanks to everyone, especially VDVsx for making the initiative!

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

That is completely possible, I can see it happening once a few people have the device in their hands.

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

numbers dont matter that much, but thanks all for making a strong point for maemo.
in the new year, i plan to publish an article about the 10000 app myth (once my blog is linked to planet maemo - no answer yet from the planetmaster...). this will make it clear that we dont need to hide behind iPhone and Android :)

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

A big thank you to all the devs and testers involved in this initiative.

Happy new year everyone, see you all in 2010.

I'm off to party...:D

Re: Challenge: 100 apps in maemo.org Extras before the end of the year
 

Thank you all for your great work:D . Keep going dudes