Francois Gouget wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 tony_lambregts@telusplanet.net wrote: [...]
How is that really different than this.
http://appdb.winehq.org/help/?topic=maintainer_ratings
The Maintainer rating system is meant for "supported" applications.
That's the thing. There is no such thing as a 'supported application' in Wine, at least the way I understand 'supported':
- there is no garantee a 'supported' application will continue to work
in the next version of Wine. That's because Alexandre does not try each 'supported' application to make sure it still works before making a release.
- there's no Wine hacker to fix a 'supported' application if it breaks.
Having an application maintainer for each 'supported' application is important and a first step towards making sure it will continue to work. But it's not sufficient. If it breaks it will need a Wine developer to look into it and debug it and I don't see any one proposing to do it or able to garantee this.
- There's no garantee that a Gold application will not regress to
Silver, Bronze or even lower.
- And finally I don't see any Wine hacker proposing any specific
'support' for the 'supported' applications.
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.
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
Maybe we could add a feature that'll keep track of maintainer rating automatically and produce an history table like the one I'm adding to the application version descriptions automatically.
Le jeudi 27 janvier 2005 à 00:00 +0100, Francois Gouget a écrit :
If it was up to me I would eliminate the the user rating. (But thats me.)
I would not be strongly opposed to this.
I would eliminate this rating too (both with/without windows).