--- Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> wrote: [... skipped ...] > Do you really think people will put up with this > system if currently > they very frequently don't even mention whether they > actually tried the app > on Wine and what results they got ? > (yes, I added a comment which asks them to also > mention this) > > A lot of the submissions that I commit leave several > things to be desired, > too (which I frequently improve a lot before > committing, which shouldn't > really be my job, though). [... skipped ...] I think the main problem of AppDB is lack of contributions. Comments from Andreas confirm that. There are no volunteers who would spend time testing the application, submitting the bugs to bugzilla, making time to time regression testing. If we implement the rating subsystem it can attract new contributors, but I doubt. Somebody has to go and spend time testing the applications. I don't want Andreas to be this person - it's a waste to spend his time on this job without significant effects. I'd better assign a couple bugs I can't handle to him (I'm the first in the line ;-). The way of improving the application DB I see is to increase soliciting for help, find volunteers, who'd take ownership over information about the applications, give the application owners access to edit AppDB information. If somebody asks - No, I do not want to take ownership over any applications. Why? Because I do not run any Windows applications, I have enough native ones. Another point - there are already commercial products, developed by companies, contributing to Wine. You, guys already have list of applications your products support, list applications you want to support, you already have testing, regression testing. Why not take ownership over applications you are interested in? Publishing information about application status in AppDB you can increase number of bug reports and won't take much time. One more thing - I'd like to remove discussions from AppDB completely and leave only static information there. The proper place for the discussions are Bugzilla and wine-users. Discussions become outdated very quickly and can't be corrected by application owners. Even requests to change information, published in AppDB should be made through Bugzilla. Andriy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
