AppDB entries are being delete without contacting maintainer by Rozanne

[Ben Klein]

2009/3/8 Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 5:46 PM, James McKenzie
> <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Codeweavers supports Wine and provides a lot of assistance with fixing
>> bugs.  I have not seen a Cedega provide a patch in a long time.
>>
>> James McKenzie
>
> Yes, they do, but it's NOT wine. If someone mentions an app works well
> in Cedega/Crossover/PlayonLinux, fine. If they submit a howto/test
> data for Cedega/Crossover/PlayonLinux, it should be deleted.
>
> Crossover is not special in that regard.

Austin, did you see James's earlier post? I've quoted it for you:

2009/3/8 James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>:
> Ben Klein wrote:
>> [cut to conserve space and to get to the point]
>> appdb.winehq.org is for Wine application test data. If a user submits
>> test data that says "Garbage" in Wine, with an additional comment that
>> says "I was able to get this working in Crossover Office", I don't
>> have a problem. However, if the test data is entirely for Crossover,
>> or RecatOS, Cedega or WineX for that matter, it does not belong on
>> AppDB.
>>
> I agree with the use of the Wine Applications Database with these
> restrictions.  I don't want to see products listed that do not conform
> to the same standards as Wine.

James and I are on agreement on this point.

>> "Rating: Garbage
>> What works: Installer
>> What doesn't work: Starting the game
>> What wasn't tested: N/A
>> Additional comments: This works in Crossover Games, but not in Wine"
>> ^^ I don't have a problem with this. (If it mentioned Cedega/WineX or
>> ReactOS, I'd probably remove the additional comment, but leave the
>> test data intact. CodeWeavers products are a special case :) )
>>
> I think this is the point.  Crossover, yes.  The rest of the stuff, no.
> And this is exactly what I was talking about.  If it does not work in
> Wine, rating: Garbage, not Plat, Gold or Bronze.
>
> James McKenzie

I believe we can allow Crossover to be a special case if a user opts
to mention it in the "Additional comments" section. "It works better
in Crossover Office" is perfectly acceptable to me, given the amount
of work Codeweavers put in to Wine, but I won't say the same for other
Wine project forks (Cedega, ReactOS) that are a world apart and don't
contribute back to upstream.