Thread: maemo.org/downloads/maemo5 -how will it work
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2009-09-14 , 08:12
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#8
Originally Posted by qwerty12 View Post
Well, for me, I'd like to be able to have a choice in the matter.
For example: Jaffa asked me to upload the Droid Sans fonts to Fremantle's extras-devel, and I did so. And I was told that they work fine.

Now, I can request to promote them; and if enough people try them (and see the point of them...), they'd be in Extras. And people who like the fonts could install them. But I think having an entry on /downloads is a bit OTT for fonts.

(The current entry for the Droid Sans fonts, in /os2008, wasn't made by me (and I never planned to have one) - X-Fade had it created with his automatic import of the packages in Extras)
When you put your app in user/* then it means that you want people to be able to install it. If you then also put it in Extras, then it makes sense to have it in Downloads too.

If there are packages in user/* categories in Extras which should not be in Downloads, then something doesn't add up Either they shouldn't be in Extras or they shouldn't be in user/* category.

With the whole QA queue, you'd have plenty of time to stop promotion anyway.
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