Re: ego website

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 22 April 2014 14:40, alex diavatis <alexis diavatis 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 hacking 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.
> >
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