Application Database RFC

[Andreas Mohr]

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 02:15:25PM -0500, Jeremy Newman wrote:
> I also saw Andriy's comments about removing discussions. I oppose this
> strongly. But, we can put in an option to hide them for those that do
> not wish to read them. For us that like the comments, I think the
> comments needs a sort toggle. I like to see the comments sorted by
> newest first. Right now, oldest messages are at the top of the list.
Yep, same here, I also oppose to this strongly.
The comments are the stuff that *really* matters.
There are a LOT of useful hints in there that would *never* get written
in the AppDB if it weren't for the fact that you can simply babble something
in a comment instead of telling someone to maybe add this info for you in
3 weeks or so.
Now if only you could actually combine the content of comments back into
the main entry and then *delete* those now useless comments,
that'd be the only thing missing here in order to be able to create
a really good HOWTO for an app.
That would be the job of a maintainer for a specific app, of course.

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