[SailfishDevel] Harbour QA process...

[Andreas Enbacka]

I would like to agree with Franck on this. I have also partly held off 
developing for SailfishOS due to e.g., the Harbour process, as well as 
due to APIs my apps need to are not allowed. I think that in case Jolla 
wants developers to focus on developing native apps for SailfishOS, many 
improvments are needed in this area.

Regards,
Andreas Enbacka

On 10.1.2014 9:57, Franck Routier (perso) wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> currently, the Harbour QA process is quite frustrating, as problems
> are reported one after the other, with a delay of several days
> inbetween... reminds me of the old time cobol compilators!
>
> It would be cool if the efforts made by the developper to provide free
> native application were a bit more considered.
>
> Ok, I'm talking out of frustration, but I had my app rejected first
> because of naming conventions of the app itself (I didn't properly
> read the FAQ, but it is not stated either in the app submission page
> of Harbour), delay of 7 days, then because of rmp file naming
> convention (which I did not find clearly stated except in the
> rejection notification - 5 more days). Now I am waiting for next step
> (2 days for now...)
>
> I understand this is a lot of work, but what I suggest is :
> - - more controls and more information in the app submission page
> (testing the naming conventions of at least the files seems trivial)
> - - when doing QA, report all problems at once, not just the first one
> - - maybe provide a QA tool so that developpers could do this job and
> let jolla teams concentrate on real QA (power consumption, security
> checks, ...)
>
> Hope this does not sound too demanding...
>
> Best regards,
> Franck
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