On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Henri Verbeethverbeet@gmail.com wrote:
2009/6/25 Ken Sharp kennybobs@o2.co.uk:
To give a scale of the problem: There are approx. 7700 program in the appdb. There are approx 21,730 comments going back to 2004. If it's not the maintainer's job to make sure the comments aren't tidied up, whose is it?
I'm not the only admin cleaning up comments.
It's not entirely clear to me why old comments need to be deleted.
Without having looked at the pages in question, I can say that often when reading through the AppDB, the comments are often (months/years) old, with outdated information, e.g.,: "to get foobar running in wine, install riched20, gdiplus, dcom98, riched30, msxml3, comctl32, and vcrun6 with winetricks," even though the only thing _actually_ needed is vcrun6.
For popular applications, there's also a lot of 'me too' comments crowding the page, howto's that should be at the top, bug reports that should be in bugzilla, etc.