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[Jango <j.4@xxxxxx>]

I think the way it is right now is great. Geeks can download their unstable apk if they wish and users just get updates on the market. 


Olivier Bilodeau <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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:
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>>  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 :)
>>
>> On 08/25/2012 06:38 PM, Olivier Bilodeau wrote:
>>
>> 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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