as i said before, it was an uninformed decision, and yes, not enough time was left for feedback from the maintainers.<br>we thought that appdb WOULD save all the data when moving, not only tests. it serves as example for us for the future, unfortunatly with problems to the EQ2 users. as i said before, sorry for that. at least it serves to not repeat the mistake, we hope you understand.<br>
<br>a super maintainer would not be able to move the data to the new application, only appdb admins have that power.<br><br>votes cannot be restored automatically, people will have to vote on the new page.<br>bug links are manually recoverable, searching bugzilla and linking should be easy, i can do that if you feel you don't have time to.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/18 John Beaulieu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.beaulieu@comcast.net">john.beaulieu@comcast.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">Ben Klein <shacklein <at> <a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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><br>
> I just noticed that the entry for "Everquest II", the sequel to<br>
> "Everquest", is listed as version 2 under "Everquest" in AppDB. This<br>
> is incorrect, as the sequel is not a new version of the original game,<br>
> it is a new game. Can someone help me fix it? I'd delete the version<br>
> but there's quite a bit of test data there.<br>
><br>
> I've CC'd the version maintainers.<br>
><br>
><br>
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<br>
</div></div>I understand why this was fixed, but the method and timing were bad. When<br>
EverQuest II was removed as a version of EverQuest and moved to it's own appdb<br>
entry in response to this message the only thing preserved was the test data.<br>
The votes for the application, the comments (with much needed info), maintainer<br>
notes (including howtos), and even the maintainers were removed. None of the<br>
bugs reported for Everquest 2 that were linked to the app are linked anymore and<br>
do not appear on the new appdb page. After being forced to re-apply to be a<br>
maintainer once again and doing a lot of searching through cached google pages I<br>
was able to restore some of the lost info. Is there a way to link the bugs to<br>
the appdb entry or not? Can the votes for the application be restored? Why wasnt<br>
this left to a super maintainer to correct instead? Why wasnt enough time<br>
allowed for input before an arbitrary change was made?<br>
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