http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19377
Summary: Calculation of overall rating is misleading to users Product: WineHQ Apps Database Version: unspecified Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: appdb-unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dimesio@earthlink.net
AFAICT, the overall rating for an app is calculated as an average of the ratings submitted in tests for the most recent version. This leads to overall ratings that do not match any of the submitted tests for that version.
The Microsoft Office 2007 installer is a good example:
Tests submitted on July 6 and 9 rated it platinum for 1.1.25, and the overall rating was (correctly) platinum.
A test submitted on July 14 rated it garbage for 1.1.25, and the overall rating dropped to gold.
A test submitted on July 16 rated it garbage for 1.1.25, and the overall rating dropped to silver.
This is misleading. The gold rating tells users they need one or more tweaks to get the app working, the silver rating tells them that basic functions work but some advanced ones don't; in the Office 2007 example, neither rating reflected the data that was actually submitted for that version.