Removing active maintainers

Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel at kievinfo.com
Thu Jun 25 19:43:32 CDT 2009


Ken Sharp wrote:
> Because the AppDB isn't supposed to be a forum.
Who said that? It was _the_ only "official forum" long before
forum.winehq.org came to be.

> I can see no useful reason for keeping old comments
I can name several reasons:
1. Apps that don't change much and old problems still exit (years later)
2. Historical records of what got eventually fixed or worked around. Useful
if anyone wants to test old Wine version. Or do the same bad things.
3. Problems that still apply to lots of other applications. Or all games run
under Steam.
4. Lots of new problems are well forgotten old problems.
5. Knowledge never gets old.

What are the reasons to remove old comments, other then being too slow to
refresh page?

> I would also like to point out that comments being deleted has been
> standard since long before I'd even heard of Wine.
I've only heard of few such cases, mostly with hot games like WoW or
programs like IE. Former had too much noise and same problems over and over
again. Later had too much of invalid / obsolete information. Neither is the
case with Steam.

> Nobody said anything when I raised this:
> http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18287
All the bug talks about is how painful it is to remove comments. Now why
they should be removed, where that information is published for _everyone_
to see, comment, discuss.


Vitaliy



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