2008/12/15 M.Kiesel wine-devel@continuity.cjb.net:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Austin English wrote:
If I had a nickel for every times I've seen platinum and gold ratings for apps that had dozens of native dlls or complicated scripts to work around wine bugs, I'd be a much richer man.
What about clarifying the wording on http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?sTopic=maintainer_ratings ?
My suggestion for "Platinum": "Application installs and runs flawlessly completely/at highest settings 'out of the box'. No changes required in winecfg." (add "completely/at highest settings")
I think it's fine as is. Some games won't run at highest settings on Windows, due to crappy video card, etc.
For "Gold": "Application works completely/at highest settings flawlessly in the latest Wine development release (no patches needed), possibly with DLL overrides, other settings, or third party software." (add same as above; add "latest Wine development release"; remove "*some* DLL overrides)
The ratings are done on a per version basis, so no need to stipulate the latest release. The patches and DLL comments I agree with.
I feel that games that are playable only at low settings shouldn't get Gold or Platinum ratings at all. Other opinions?
Depends on how they run in Windows on the same hardware ;-).
Austin: I think for apps that run completely with tweaks a Gold rating is okay regardless of the number of tweaks involved; for the user it doesn't matter really whether one or ten DLLs have to be overridden. I wouldn't go as far as allowing patched Wine versions though.
I don't disagree with that, though I see it quite a bit when approving programs in the AppDB (though I'm not the one usually doing it, I only go through the queue when I'm on the AppDB for other reasons). The main problem is when it get a _platinum_ rating.
I also suggest to hyperlink every mention of "Rating" in the browser with that page. Otherwise it isn't completely clear (without searching) what the individual ratings mean really.
Agreed.
Who has the rights to change AppDB on that level?
I'll send a patch tomorrow. If you don't see a change within a few days, remind me.