[Wine] The pros and cons of a wiki AppDB

[James Mckenzie]

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 8, 2009 6:59 AM
>To: wine-devel at winehq.org
>Cc: Wine <wine-users at winehq.org>
>Subject: Re: [Wine] The pros and cons of a wiki AppDB
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>2009/3/7 IneedAname <wineappdb at googlemail.com>:
>> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 20:10:13 +0000
>> David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Yep. That's why a wiki is nice. If you open it up to everyone to
>>> contribute, you'll get bad stuff but you'll get good stuff you just
>>> wouldn't get otherwise. It's a great format to capture that.
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>> We would use the same system for edit rights that we use now.
>> Make appDB account then ask to be a maintainer then you can edit the wiki page for that app.
>> The wiki is only for application notes.
>> Anyone can read the wiki history.
>> Con:
>> It would be very hard to set up.
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>Con: Becoming a maintainer is a pain in the backside. You won't get
>useful drive-by contributions, and a lot of this stuff is drive-by.
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Example?  I've been a maintainer for over a year now.  I've received two postings for the program.  I don't think a lot of Linux and Mac users are using the program, or they are not experiencing problems.  I will update the entry, now that you have reminded me to do so.
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>> Do not cross post or you may up set people with power.
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>So when we're talking about a service to users, you're saying "God
>forbid we ask the users"?
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We are discussing what is a development issue.  We really don't need to confuse users with this.  Besides, I don't think most users really care if we are using a Wiki or a Web Application to record what is hsppening with Applications and their ability to run on Wine.

James McKenzie

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>- d.
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