hi; On 22 April 2014 14:40, alex diavatis <alexis.diava...@gmail.com> wrote: > The question here is why GNOME Devs should explicitly review the extensions?
because extensions run in the same process space as the window manager, which is a privileged piece of software. > Add a notice that we aren't responsible for the quality of extensions this is not a matter of quality: it's a matter of shipping an extension from a gnome.org website that can do whatever it wants with the input and output of your system. > and let users review them. this is even worse than not having anybody reviewing them. > If possible have just some automated tests. it's not possible, unless you can write tools that manage to understand the intent of the code. ciao, Emmanuele. > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Sam Bull <sam.hack...@sent.com> wrote: >> >> On mar, 2014-04-22 at 08:51 -0400, Norman L. Smith wrote: >> > My entry in the queue is recent (less than two weeks ago, there is no >> > personal complaint). I understand extensions are adjuncts to the shell >> > and other priorities will always come before them. >> >> From what I can tell, it seems that there is only one person reviewing >> extensions. This results in the queue only being reviewed like every 2 >> months or something, which causes long delays (I'm just an extension dev >> myself). I'm guessing there's just nobody else volunteering to help with >> reviews. >> >> Maybe if some kind of public call was put out, it might be possible to >> find more some more reviewers, in order to improve this experience. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-shell-list mailing list >> gnome-shell-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
