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Revision as of 06:11, 17 August 2009
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.
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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.
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.
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Promotion / Demotion
An application is promoted to Extras when...
An application is demoted to Extras-devel when...