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# Security risks | # Security risks | ||
#: The main security risks are financial damage, access to private data and harm to device components. If you find such risk in an application then you need to [http://maemo.org/community/security/ report] it and the app can't be uploaded to Extras until a deeper analysis has been done with favourable results. | #: The main security risks are financial damage, access to private data and harm to device components. If you find such risk in an application then you need to [http://maemo.org/community/security/ report] it and the app can't be uploaded to Extras until a deeper analysis has been done with favourable results. | ||
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====Warnings==== | ====Warnings==== | ||
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Testers with good technical knowledge are invited to look deeper in the [http://maemo.org/maemo_release_documentation/maemo4.1.x/node16.html Maemo Quality considerations] (((waiting for Fremantle update))) in order to find weak points in applications waiting to be promoted. | Testers with good technical knowledge are invited to look deeper in the [http://maemo.org/maemo_release_documentation/maemo4.1.x/node16.html Maemo Quality considerations] (((waiting for Fremantle update))) in order to find weak points in applications waiting to be promoted. | ||
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+ | The extras-testing QA process should not be used to delay the release of new applications and updates with minor/normal bugs or enhancement requests. These can be filed as bugs just as usual. | ||
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+ | * Developers are encouraged to adopt the Maemo 5 UI guidelines and optimize their application to finger use. However, lack of Maemo 5 UI optimization is not a reason to block an application in its way to Extras unless it is unusable even with stylus. | ||
+ | * Maemo 5 offers stock icons covering most regular use cases, but developers can use the icons they prefer as long as they respect copyrights. Broken icons can be a major bug stopping a release to Extras but discussions about beauty/ugliness of a UI are out of scope in the QA process. | ||
===Command Line applications=== | ===Command Line applications=== | ||
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* The application uses the [[Extras-testing/Command_line_applications | CLI icon]] in the application manager. | * The application uses the [[Extras-testing/Command_line_applications | CLI icon]] in the application manager. | ||
- | * The application [[Extras-testing/Command_line_applications#Description|description]] clearly says that the application only runs from the command line. | + | * The application [[Extras-testing/Command_line_applications#Description|description]] clearly says that the application only runs from the command line. |
==Testing software== | ==Testing software== |
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