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Supertesters - Make, accept, nominations

Feb 16, 2012, 5:31 AM

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We are in need of supertesters to promote packages on Extras. This is a
crucial function which is currently suffering because the list of
supertesters and promotion rules have not been updated in a long time.
[url]
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2012-January/028825.html[/url]

Of the [URL="https://garage.maemo.org/projects/qatesters/"]current
list[/URL], I propose to keep Andre Klapper and Harald Schmitt because they
continue to be involved. If anyone has been involved and I missed it,
please speak up. I'm sorry and you will be kept as well.

For new supertesters, we should have people who have a demonstrated
interest in maemo and ability to test maemo packages. It is vital that
supertesters are trusted members of the community. A single supertester
will be able to promote someone else's (not their own) package. [U]Please
feel free to suggest different or more objective criteria for
supertesters.[/U]

So far the following have been nominated:

Pali
freemangordon
nicolai
merlin19xx
MAG

Rob

(This has also been posted on the forum.)

Re: Supertesters - Make, accept, nominations [ In reply to ]

pali.rohar at gmail

Feb 16, 2012, 5:44 AM

Post #2 of 5 (1646 views)

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On Thursday 16 February 2012 08:31:47 robert bauer wrote:
> We are in need of supertesters to promote packages on Extras. This is a
> crucial function which is currently suffering because the list of
> supertesters and promotion rules have not been updated in a long time.
> [url]
> http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2012-January/028825.html[/
> url]
>
> Of the [URL="https://garage.maemo.org/projects/qatesters/"]current
> list[/URL], I propose to keep Andre Klapper and Harald Schmitt because they
> continue to be involved. If anyone has been involved and I missed it,
> please speak up. I'm sorry and you will be kept as well.
>
> For new supertesters, we should have people who have a demonstrated
> interest in maemo and ability to test maemo packages. It is vital that
> supertesters are trusted members of the community. A single supertester
> will be able to promote someone else's (not their own) package. [U]Please
> feel free to suggest different or more objective criteria for
> supertesters.[/U]
>
> So far the following have been nominated:
>
> Pali
> freemangordon
> nicolai
> merlin19xx
> MAG
>
> Rob
>
> (This has also been posted on the forum.)

We (Maemo Community) really need people with ability to promote packages which
do not maintain (e.g not on maintainer list). See how log took to promote
package rootsh, version 1.8 to Extras (more than year?). Old version in Extras
had critical bug which cause not possible to uninstall package. And maintainer
abandoned Maemo community, so nobody had permission for it!

I would like to see permission for promoting packages which I update and not
wait while old maintainer give me needed permisstion!

--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

Re: Supertesters - Make, accept, nominations [ In reply to ]

neal at walfield

Feb 16, 2012, 5:56 AM

Post #3 of 5 (1649 views)

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At Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:44:07 +0100,
Pali RohÃ¡r wrote:
> We (Maemo Community) really need people with ability to promote packages which
> do not maintain (e.g not on maintainer list). See how log took to promote
> package rootsh, version 1.8 to Extras (more than year?). Old version in Extras
> had critical bug which cause not possible to uninstall package. And maintainer
> abandoned Maemo community, so nobody had permission for it!
>
> I would like to see permission for promoting packages which I update and not
> wait while old maintainer give me needed permisstion!

This is a good point. It needs to be easier to adopt unmaintained
packages.
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Re: Supertesters - Make, accept, nominations [ In reply to ]

andrew at bleb

Feb 16, 2012, 6:23 AM

Post #4 of 5 (1644 views)

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On Thursday, 16 February 2012, Neal H. Walfield <neal@walfield.org> wrote:
> At Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:44:07 +0100,
> Pali RohÃ¡r wrote:
>>
>> I would like to see permission for promoting packages which I update and
not
>> wait while old maintainer give me needed permisstion!
>
> This is a good point. It needs to be easier to adopt unmaintained
> packages.

Agreed, but this is a case of designing and proposing a process. It has
nothing to do with supertesters, AFAICT.

Cheers,

Andrew

--
Andrew Flegg -- mailto:andrew@bleb.org | http://www.bleb.org/

Re: Supertesters - Make, accept, nominations [ In reply to ]

nybauer at gmail

Feb 18, 2012, 8:58 AM

Post #5 of 5 (1643 views)

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Andrew Flegg <andrew@bleb.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, 16 February 2012, Neal H. Walfield <neal@walfield.org> wrote:
> > At Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:44:07 +0100,
> > Pali Rohár wrote:
> >>
> >> I would like to see permission for promoting packages which I update
> and not
> >> wait while old maintainer give me needed permisstion!
> >
> > This is a good point. It needs to be easier to adopt unmaintained
> > packages.
>
> Agreed, but this is a case of designing and proposing a process. It has
> nothing to do with supertesters, AFAICT.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
> Well, they are different, but maybe there is SOME relationship because I
wouldn't be surprised if someone stopped maintaining SW because they saw
testing wasn't happening like it should.

Andrew, you (plus two others) have admin rights for the testing but haven't
been engaged in it lately. What do you want to do? I hope you can help
out. But if not, let's make a decision so we can move forward. The
current situation is not acceptable and needs to be changed. At worst,
transfer the admin rights to me and other current council members, and we
can handle it from there.

http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2012-February/028841.html

Rob

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