How to phrase Wine's success rate

leszek leszek.hanusz at gmail.com
Sun May 25 11:49:24 CDT 2008


Is there somewhere a graph showing the evolution of the appdb stats over
time ?

-Leszek

Le dimanche 25 mai 2008 à 03:28 -0700, Dan Kegel a écrit :
> When making announcements about Wine 1.0, it's useful
> to include an objective measure of how well it works for
> the average app, one that correctly conveys both
> Wine's promise and its limitations.
> 
> Our current appdb stats are:
> 
> Platinum	1500
> Gold    	1763
> Silver  	1194
> Bronze  	1071
> Garbage 	2512
> 
> That's 19% platinum and 41% gold-or-platinum.
> (Given rating inflation, we probably shouldn't claim that silver
> or below means "working" for the average person.)
> 
> How about:
> "Of the apps we have tested with Wine, about 20% work well,
> and about another 20% work but have some glitches."
> 
> That assumes we don't have too many regressions.
> It'd be nice if the appdb could give finer grained
> summaries, e.g. counts of apps that had actually been
> tested with wine-1.0rc*.
> - Dan
> 
> 




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