Extras-testing

The maemo.org extras-testing repository hosts community applications and related packages that are waiting to be evaluated and promoted to Maemo 5 Extras. The packages hosted here are promoted from extras-devel and have gone through an automated quality check. Now they need real humans assessing that they are indeed ready to be released.

Target: Maemo 5 testers
Power users willing to help Maemo 5 developers getting their apps ready are encouraged to activate this repository.  Applications in extras-testing might break and cause trouble to your system! Regular users are enouraged to stay away.

Activating extras-testing
Users willing to give a hand testing and evaluating community applications must start activating the extras-testing repository in the Application Manager of their Maemo 5 compatible device.

Application manager --> Application catalogs --> New Catalog name: maemo.org extras-testing Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras-testing Distribution: fremantle Components: free non-free

Packages waiting to be evaluated

 * Power users can install any of the user applications and start the evaluation.
 * Developers might want to have a look to the full list of packages as well.

Quality criteria
There are several elements to be considered before voting Up/Down. Please take your time looking at them. Don't evaluate lightly an application! If you are busy or in a hurry just let others do the job.

Blockers
If one of these criteria is not met, the application cannot go to Extras.


 * Reproducible crashes.
 * Power management issues affecting battery life.
 * Core features advertised through UI or product page don't work or are missing.
 * Lack of bug reporting database (http://bugs.maemo.org is the preferred option, otherwise it needs to be identified in the Details info).

It might also happen that "extras-devel issues" still show up due to a bug in the promotion tool: missing dependencies, install/uninstall problems, "Other" section (what else? are they documented anywhere?). In that case the application should be demoted to extras-devel.

Warnings
If one of these criteria is not met, the developers will be asked to fix them urgently. Still, the app can make it slowly to Extras unless a blocker is raised.


 * Details visible in the Application Manager are wrong or incomplete: icon, summary, URL to project, updates info.

Promotion / Demotion
An application is promoted to Extras when...

An application is demoted to Extras-devel when...

Tools for testers
Testing tools help finding non-obvious flaws and getting useful data from visible problems.

Crash Reporter
Install this tool in your device (((once the Fremantle version is public))) in order to register data from crashes suffered by an application or its dependent components.