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#20
In my opinion the hurdle is to high to vote for a package (find it and you need a differend account) and the users are to lazy!!!

I collected 4 votes (all positive) within 2 months for my package. And the new version at extra devel was so stable and has so many new features and fixes... I promoted just before the coding competition the extra devel version to testing to avoid confusion. And so I have to get again thru the QA prozess.

I promoted the application at mwkn to vote for the new version in extra-testing. And I got a lot of feedback during the coding competition. People asking for new features, many compliments and over 20 votes at the competition. So, someone must have installed my application and has it in use.
I wrote it in several places here at talk.maemo.org and asked to vote for my package in extra-testing and in the end I got not a single vote for my package. And I'm to disappointed about this to ask every user per PM to vote for my package.

In the end it's fine for me. I can use my application myself. And when I look at blogs, news pages and here at maemo. Everywhere I can read: "get it from extra-devel".
So, why should someone vote when anyway all users are getting their applications from extra-devel?

In my opinion there should be some kind of blocking in the application manager. A annoying hurdle if the user wants to install something from there. They should want it themselves in extras instead of extra-devel!

EDIT: And I guess with xfade I had the last time a super-tester involved. If he is not ranked as super-tester, who then?
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Last edited by helex; 2010-08-01 at 20:41.