On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 20:09 +0200, ext Krischan Keitsch wrote: > I thing a voting / rating mechanism is interesting as a way of quality > management in order to decide which application could "move up" to a central > repository. We are talking about different thing here, although all them are related. - Debian's popularity-contest is a package that the user accepts in her system. It registers the apps you install/deinstall and use more frequently. It sends the data automatically to a central repository keeping your identity private. All the data gathered generate lots of statistics: http://popcon.debian.org/ - Manual votes (digital, in fact) can be done via http://downloads.maemo.org. We are going to see ranks soon, and Nokia is going to look the apps on the top with more attention. - About missing features/software, the official process goes through submission of feature requests via http://maemo.org/community/wiki/roadmapwishlist/ or bugzilla. The latter include votes, and we look at them when prioritizing our attention. But in general it is more or less clear when features are requested by a lot of people. - About access to the extras repository, the situation today is that a developer can request access and we will provide it (or not). Obnce a developer has it, she can throw all the code there. This has to change to a community driven filtering and moderation though, and we would like to see the new system working for Diablo. There has been some previous discussion in maemo-developers and we are going to push that discussion again until getting conclusions (unless someone else does it before, of course). -- Quim Gil - http://maemo.org
