On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 06:19:37 +1100 Ben Klein shacklein@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/8 IneedAname wineappdb@googlemail.com:
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 00:10:59 +1100 Ben Klein shacklein@gmail.com wrote:
A wiki is likely to be highly unsuccessful for AppDB when the focus is on test data.
I'm thing about the notes made by the app maintainers. Not the whole AppDB.
Then it's just wasted effort. There is no benefit in turning the Notes/HOWTO system into a wiki.
I can think of one possible benefit. There are a lot of apps without maintainers, and there might be users of those apps who would be willing take a few minutes to post bits of useful information in a wiki, but don't want the responsibility of being a maintainer. Sure, they could just post info in a comment, but user comments are buried at the bottom of the page and not in a useful order for finding information quickly. The same goes for comments in test reports--I've found information on needed tweaks buried several reports down from the most recent.