Removing active maintainers

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 09:41:21 CDT 2009


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Henri Verbeet<hverbeet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/25 Ken Sharp <kennybobs at o2.co.uk>:
>> To give a scale of the problem:
>> There are approx. 7700 program in the appdb.
>> There are approx 21,730 comments going back to 2004.
>> If it's not the maintainer's job to make sure the comments aren't tidied up,
>> whose is it?
>>
>> I'm not the only admin cleaning up comments.
>>
> It's not entirely clear to me why old comments need to be deleted.

Without having looked at the pages in question, I can say that often
when reading through the AppDB, the comments are often (months/years)
old, with outdated information, e.g.,: "to get foobar running in wine,
install riched20, gdiplus, dcom98, riched30, msxml3, comctl32, and
vcrun6 with winetricks," even though the only thing _actually_ needed
is vcrun6.

For popular applications, there's also a lot of 'me too' comments
crowding the page, howto's that should be at the top, bug reports that
should be in bugzilla, etc.

-- 
-Austin



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