Am Donnerstag, 27. Januar 2005 10:30 schrieb Jonathan Ernst: <big snip>
So these 'supported' applications are no different from any other application and the medals mean nothing more than the old rating system. They just have 4 levels instead of 6.
I think having more than 3-4 levels is too much by the way; it's much too hard to rate an application in such small quality steps.
maybe it is a good idea to seperate the installation rating from how well the program runs. I often had problems to install apps that run perfectly if you get past the installer ;-). just my 2 cents ...
As for application that could regress from gold to another rating, I think that's not a problem as when a maintainer rates an application he states what version of Wine he was using (next drop down box after the maintainer rating).
I even started to track an history of application ratings for the apps I maintain: each time I retest an application I update the application rating AND the history table so that someone can figure out that an application was working better with an older wine release.
See here for examples: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=1533&versionId=2230 http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=2&versionId=764
that's a very good idea and i think the rating system in general should be linked to a wine version otherwise it's relatively useless. I always read the comments to figure out wether the (hopefully good ;-) rating of an app maybe is based on a wine version from 2001.
cu,
Stefan