AppDB entries are being delete without contacting maintainer by Rozanne

[Austin English]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/8 Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:46 PM, James McKenzie
>> <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Codeweavers supports Wine and provides a lot of assistance with fixing
>>> bugs.  I have not seen a Cedega provide a patch in a long time.
>>>
>>> James McKenzie
>>
>> Yes, they do, but it's NOT wine. If someone mentions an app works well
>> in Cedega/Crossover/PlayonLinux, fine. If they submit a howto/test
>> data for Cedega/Crossover/PlayonLinux, it should be deleted.
>>
>> Crossover is not special in that regard.
>
> Austin, did you see James's earlier post? I've quoted it for you:

I did, just clarifying my view.

> 2009/3/8 James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>:
>> Ben Klein wrote:
>>> [cut to conserve space and to get to the point]
>>> appdb.winehq.org is for Wine application test data. If a user submits
>>> test data that says "Garbage" in Wine, with an additional comment that
>>> says "I was able to get this working in Crossover Office", I don't
>>> have a problem. However, if the test data is entirely for Crossover,
>>> or RecatOS, Cedega or WineX for that matter, it does not belong on
>>> AppDB.
>>>
>> I agree with the use of the Wine Applications Database with these
>> restrictions.  I don't want to see products listed that do not conform
>> to the same standards as Wine.
>
> James and I are on agreement on this point.
>
>>> "Rating: Garbage
>>> What works: Installer
>>> What doesn't work: Starting the game
>>> What wasn't tested: N/A
>>> Additional comments: This works in Crossover Games, but not in Wine"
>>> ^^ I don't have a problem with this. (If it mentioned Cedega/WineX or
>>> ReactOS, I'd probably remove the additional comment, but leave the
>>> test data intact. CodeWeavers products are a special case :) )
>>>
>> I think this is the point.  Crossover, yes.  The rest of the stuff, no.
>> And this is exactly what I was talking about.  If it does not work in
>> Wine, rating: Garbage, not Plat, Gold or Bronze.
>>
>> James McKenzie
>
> I believe we can allow Crossover to be a special case if a user opts
> to mention it in the "Additional comments" section. "It works better
> in Crossover Office" is perfectly acceptable to me, given the amount
> of work Codeweavers put in to Wine, but I won't say the same for other
> Wine project forks (Cedega, ReactOS) that are a world apart and don't
> contribute back to upstream.
>

Yes, they do. But their product isn't Wine, and shouldn't be treated
special IMHO. They have ads on Winehq, as well as thank you's in a few
other places. To a user that just wants their app to work, it makes no
difference if Wine is broken but Cedega and Crossover aren't. They
just want it to work. There's no reason to allow those applications
working in Crossover to get that information, but not Cedega.

-- 
-Austin