On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:47:25 -0400
Christopher Cope <ccope3@utk.edu> wrote:

> I understand the premise, but I disagree. A lot of apps that I use don't have maintainers. However, the comments are typically helpful. I believe this should be approached differently.
>

So volunteer to be a maintainer.

Say a program had a volunteer working on it, and there were some comments explaining how to make it work (e.g. winetricks, ...), or work better

So now, if the maintainer leaves, all the comments will be lost/invisible?

That seems a bit harsh: you probably can't expect users to follow workarounds scattered across associated bugs, can you?

Furthermore, there's already a comment telling sthg along the lines of "this program wasn't tested with a recent wine version".

Isn't that sufficient already?

Frédéric