Am Freitag, 19. Oktober 2007 schrieb Steve Greenland: > According to Krischan Keitsch <krischan.keitsch at alumni.tu-berlin.de>: > > The optimum may be between the two - meaning we need some kind of > > a quality management for the community efforts. To approve that > > just verified and checked apps are in the official and universe > > repositories. So that Jill Random and ourselves can benefit from rock > > solid high quality apps. What do you think? > > Who is going to do the testing and certification? It's a lot of work, > and not particularly rewarding. And I can guarantee that sooner or later > some developers will feel personally maltreated by any such group. Good point. > > Probably the easiest workable solution is something like the Debian > unstable/testing process, whereby packages are uploaded to unstable, and > migrate to testing after meeting certain criteria (no new serious bugs, > installs with only other testing packages, etc.) > Maybe a rating mechanism could help to qualify which app could go to the main repository (stable)? (Within the constrains of licence, ...) Apps with a low rating will then be "parked" in unstable? Apps from maemo download can be rated already. That would not require a testing and certification team. However, clear rules are required to make this process transparent. > But I'd settle for just getting people to use one repo, rather than > setting up there own. > That would be a step in the right direction. Regards Krischan > Regards, > Steve
