Thread: [extras-testing QA] giving thumbs up in testing without following QA
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2010-08-22 , 12:12
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Originally Posted by fms View Post
The problem of Extras being pretty much dead in the water, due to excessively restrictive promotion policies. Of course there is an easier solution to this problem: just relax the promotion policies. But a few "super-testers" in the crowd are obviously against this solution.
Extras is not "dead in the water"; it's in fact more successful than the ovi store where developers get both Nokias support and the chance to make money.

But then, your proposal wouldn't actually change anything:

Extras-safe (now extras) would be the one repo activated by default in Nokias firmwares. There's no way they'd ever activate a repository that contains applications that are not well tested.

Extras (now extras-testing) would not be activated by default. There would be a procedure for applications to be promoted from extras to extras safe. This procedure would be the same as the one we have now. also, as a consequence, there would be a warning for users that this new "extras" contains untested applications and they shouldn't install unless they really know what they're doing.

So what exactly are we talking about?
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