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[Olivier Bilodeau <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re adding maintainers

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Olivier Bilodeau <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On my mobile phone, please excuse my brevity.
On Aug 25, 2012 10:01 AM, "NoahY" <noahy57@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Understood, but the Launchpad user base is of course far more limited; I
> guess for a Gnu/Linux centric app we get more participation than usual, but
> from what I've seen on Google Play, there is an amazing number of bug
> reports in a relatively short amount of time.  That was all I was thinking,
> that it would be a way to do a final stress test before releasing a stable
> version.
>
> Of course, we could always just release it like the current one as "use at
> own risk" - the Tomdroid on Play is still Beta as well, I guess :)
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> On 08/25/2012 06:38 PM, Olivier Bilodeau wrote:
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> 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:
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>> 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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> Olivier Bilodeau <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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