Removing active maintainers

Ken Sharp kennybobs at o2.co.uk
Thu Jun 25 19:52:58 CDT 2009



Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> 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?

You've just described what notes are for.

> 
>> 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.

Because it's bloody obvious or THEY WOULDN'T BE REMOVED LONG BEFORE I 
STARTED DOING IT.

> 
> 
> Vitaliy
> 




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