Splitting the appdb Top 25 list

[Jeff Davis]

I'm not a developer, but I joined to make a humble suggestion in a place
where someone might actually have the power to act on it.

Does anyone think it would be a good idea to split the Top 25 into two
lists, one for games, and one for applications/other?

By my count, every item of the top 10 is a game.  22 out of the Top 25 are
games or game-related.

I don't think it's necessarily true that more people are interested in
running The Sims than iTunes, or that The Sims is or should be a higher
priority
than having iTunes working.

I think it gives the wrong impression of wine and its priorities, and makes
a person feel a bit hopeless voting for an application no matter how many
millions of
people are users of that application on Windows.  I think people would be
more interested in voting for applications if they could get feedback on
WineHQ.

Thoughts?

[Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes]

On Saturday 18 October 2008 00:18:24 Jeff Davis wrote:
> I'm not a developer, but I joined to make a humble suggestion in a place
> where someone might actually have the power to act on it.
>
> Does anyone think it would be a good idea to split the Top 25 into two
> lists, one for games, and one for applications/other?
>
> By my count, every item of the top 10 is a game.  22 out of the Top 25 are
> games or game-related.
>
> I don't think it's necessarily true that more people are interested in
> running The Sims than iTunes, or that The Sims is or should be a higher
> priority
> than having iTunes working.
>
> I think it gives the wrong impression of wine and its priorities, and makes
> a person feel a bit hopeless voting for an application no matter how many
> millions of
> people are users of that application on Windows.  I think people would be
> more interested in voting for applications if they could get feedback on
> WineHQ.
>
> Thoughts?

I wonder if we should perhaps just remove the AppDB voting system alltogether. 
As you said, it doesn't seem to be giving a good representation of users' 
interests.

Alexander N. Sørnes

[Jeff Davis]

Do developers set priorities based on what's on the voting list anyway?  I
mean, does any developer ever really say 'Wow, Bioshock has
42 votes, maybe I should work on that tomorrow'?  That's almost certainly
not the case.

For the longest time as a user I had the impression that wine developers
spend half of their time writing hacks to make this week's new game
work.  Probably inaccurate, but that's the impression I Ithink part of that
perception came from seeing what apps were being voted on.

I know for a fact the list is at least somewhat distorted.  Magic The
Gathering: Online is #3 on the list, and I was basically the one that helped
get
it to that position by asking people on other sites to vote if they wanted
to see it working under Linux.  About 100 people voted for it within 72
hours.
Despite that, it's not a very popular app.  It's something I think Linux
gamers might be interested in, in general, but even on Windows it probably
has less
than 50,000 active accounts.

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> I wonder if we should perhaps just remove the AppDB voting system
> alltogether.
> As you said, it doesn't seem to be giving a good representation of users'
> interests.
>
> Alexander N. Sørnes

[ricardo filipe]

i think that list could prove useful, although i agree it could be split on to apps and games, makes all sense.
even if devs don't look at it right now maybe someone does and wants to hack on top voters.

the MTGO 3 example is interesting, i'm the maintainer of the game, and that surge in the forums of wizards made many windows users vote for it in wine. although it's not a good measure for the importance of the game in the linux comunity it would be interesting to see if it is the pushing app to make secur32 and schannel work on wine or something else.

Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:58:27 -0400From: [e-mail]: [e-mail]; [e-mail]: Re: Splitting the appdb Top 25 list
Do developers set priorities based on what's on the voting list anyway?  I mean, does any developer ever really say 'Wow, Bioshock has42 votes, maybe I should work on that tomorrow'?  That's almost certainly not the case.
I know for a fact the list is at least somewhat distorted.  Magic The Gathering: Online is #3 on the list, and I was basically the one that helped getit to that position by asking people on other sites to vote if they wanted to see it working under Linux.  About 100 people voted for it within 72 hours.Despite that, it's not a very popular app.  It's something I think Linux gamers might be interested in, in general, but even on Windows it probably has lessthan 50,000 active accounts.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes  wrote:

I wonder if we should perhaps just remove the AppDB voting system alltogether.As you said, it doesn't seem to be giving a good representation of users'interests.Alexander N. Sørnes

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