Hi,
Tony Lambregts wrote:
In the interm I believe the AppDB has helped a lot. I think that the work that we have put into it has paid off fairly well to a point. So far we have added:
- Applications Maintantainers that can modify application entries on
an App by App basis.
- Notification emails so that people (Administrators, Maintainers and
Monitors) kept up to date on changes to applications.
Bug links to track bugs affecting an application.
Test results to track how well an application runs on a Wine
version. and help spot regressions
- Lots of small improvements.
Lots of thanks to Chris Morgan and Johnathan Ernst and everyone else that submited patches to get it to its current state.
However there are a number of things that are needed still.
We need a general search page.
It would be nice to have the ability for people to have classes of
rights so that they can add/change/delete certain fields IE: "Application Description" without having to become a maintainer or administrator.
There is a todo list here as well. http://wiki.winehq.org/AppdbInfo
If anyone has experience with PHP or wants to gain some, there is a real need for your help.
- A newsgroup set up that works the same as bugs so that anyone can
see the notifications generated by the AppDB.
I asked Jeremy Newman for this before but I don't think that I explained the need for it very well. (trying again)
The AppDB is a great idea, but why is it so poorly integrated in the main page? The same question goes to the Bugtracker and the Wiki where the situation is even worse. On most web pages you have a navigation bar which remains the same as long as you are on the same page. But if you enter the AppDB or the Bugtracker you have the feeling that you are on an entirely new page which only have a link back to the main page and a similar design. If you enter one of the wiki pages the situation is even worse because it does not even have a link to the main page in the navigation bar. Is this a design decision or is it just the lack of time which prevents IMHO proper integration?
Another thing I'd like to be changed is the "Paid Support" Link. Now it leads you direct to the codeweavers homepage. Well I'd not expect such a behaviour from a menu link. I would propose it to change it so that it opens a new window with the codeweavers page (ok I know that some people don't like that) or to make a new page under "Paid support" which contains the link to codeweavers (and perhaps others, if existent)
I'm a PHP and C/C++ coder and I thought about working on the todo list but I don't like the idea of starting to work on something which won't satisfy me in the end. I don't even care what you think about me or my ideas. There are other projects which needs to be worked on, too. Don't get me wrong, wine is a super project and I use it daily to run my favorite instant messenger, but I think the climate is a bit cold for my taste. I thought a while whether to send the email here or to /dev/null, but I thought I should inform you what I don't like ;)
Greetings KGJ