On 26/03/2008, tparker <tparker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David Gerard wrote: > > If people are not using it, and are instead doing it somewhere else, > > then this suggests something could be improved about the AppDB > > interface (and will need to be for 1.0). > I have submitted to the AppDB multiple times for both WoW and City of > Heroes/Villains. Each time I made sure to follow the directions for the > submission and everything seemed okay when I sent it in. I never saw any of the > submissions show up in the DB even though I had made sure that they added new > information, were using current versions of the games and Wine, a linux distro > that didn't have a listing yet, etc. so that I was adding useful info and not a > 'me too!'. > In each case after several weeks I would get an email that said my submission > had been removed from the DB but said nothing about why so I have no clue if I > did something wrong in the interface, misunderstood the type of information I > should have included, or who knows what else. As a newish linux/wine user and a > definite end-user, not a programmer, the 9th or 10th time that happened I just > stopped submitting. Now I just try and help with game related posts on my distro > forum (Ubuntu), a general user forum (linuxquestions.org), or this list instead. So the AppDB is an information black hole and actually needs to be worked around, then? - d.
