AppDB entries are being delete without contacting maintainer by Rozanne

[Austin English]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Klaus Layer <klaus.layer at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since several months a user Rozanne is changing AppDB entries without
> contacting the maintainers. Most of the changes so far were minor changes.
> But today I was informed that Rozanne just deleted an entry which was
> maintained by me. According to the email I received, there were duplicated
> entries for the programm Mapsource. I regard deleting entries from Appdb
> without giving the maintainer a chance to backup what they maintained a
> *very* unfriendly act. I would have merged the two entries under one to save
> the valuable information users added to AppDB. Just deleting entries from
> AppDB, deletes information the wine community collected to support using
> wine. Users spent a lot of time and just deleting their work is *not*
> acceptable.
>
> Can someone of the adminstrators of AppDB please make sure that Rozanne stops
> deleting entries from AppDB without informing the maintainers before. I would
> expect to be informed about such an action before and that I as a maintainer
> have the right to discuss was is being delete and what not.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Klaus
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: AppDB <appdb-noreply at winehq.org>
> To: appdb-noreply at winehq.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:42:12 -0600
> Subject: [AppDB] Submitter screenshots deleted
>
> Submitter screenshots deleted
> -------------------------------------------------------
> The screenshots you submitted for MapSource 6.13.7 have been deleted because MapSource 6.13.7 was deleted.
> The action was performed by Rosanne
> Reasons given
> The parent entry was deleted. The reason given for that deletion was:
> Duplicate entry
>
> Best regards.
> The AppDB team
> http://appdb.winehq.org/
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Well, Rozanne _is_ an AppDB administrator, hence the permission to
delete those entries.

That said, yes, notice should be given.

-- 
-Austin