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[Olivier Bilodeau <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would have to check how they do it. Two project names (tomdroid and
tomdroid beta) would fragment the user base and because of the signing
process there are things you can't do. This probably evolved though like
the rest of android so looking at what others do could be a good thing.
Going beyond and including giving access to maintainers to the play store
and the keystore (to sign releases).

However, installing 3rd party APKs is relatively easy and insuring beta
testers are of relatively good technical capabilities (signed up on
launchpad) insure we get better reports and we might even ask them to adb
logcat issues. The error reports from Play are for crashes and it's a one
way thing, no chance to really interact with the user.

Others, what do you think?

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:46 PM, NoahY <noahy57@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Just wondering if it might be a good idea at some point to release the
> beta on Google Play, like Mozilla does with Firefox?  As Olivier probably
> knows, Google collects error data automatically, so we wouldn't have to
> rely on people posting bugs (except Olivier, who would then have to post
> them himself...)  Maybe not yet, but at some point I think it would make
> the bug fixing process go quicker; it would require a separate package tag
> I guess, but a simple bash script could automate the process I think.
>
> Just a thought, hopefully there are no major bugs left and a stable
> release can come in good time.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> noahy
>
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