wine users - Apr 2008 - Suggestions for AppDB

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place for this suggestion but
I'd like to get some discussion on the subject.

I feel that AppDB does not provide enough information about the particulars of
the system and user to be of a lot of value in deciding what works, what
doesn't and why.  I'd like to suggest that AppDB capture some additional
information:
1. User experience: e.g. Noob, Moderate, Hacker, Guru
2. System RAM
3. GPU: (e.g. geForce, ATI, etc)
4. Tweeks and additional packages installed.
5. ???

There already is a comments field where people can put any of the information
you've listed. I would like to see more detailed information on special
settings/dll overrides needed, and adding a field  specifically for that might
remind more people to include that information. (I'm guilty of forgetting to
mention it myself sometimes.)

I believe the system requirements for programs under Wine are supposed to be the
same as under Windows, so I don't really see the need for this info. (I
could be wrong about that, of course.)

As for user experience, well, that would be self-reported, and I've learned
to take such self-assessments with a lot of grains of salt.  :)

[quote]1. User experience: e.g. Noob, Moderate, Hacker, Guru[/quote]
This is somehow a name change for the current ranking system :
Noob -> Platinium / Gold
Moderate -> Silver
Hacker/Guru -> Bronze
Nobody -> Garbage

[quote]2. System RAM
3. GPU: (e.g. geForce, ATI, etc)[/quote]
Wine implementation is under heavy development so optimisations and
compatibility changes are really fast. Such informations will become deprecated
to fast to be of any use (sadly the appdb is not so often updated by the users
even when they have problems)
So it will tend to be the same as written on the box, one day, maybe.

[quote]4. Tweeks and additional packages installed.[/quote]
This one is dependent on the distribution your are using and so if the report is
not done carefully it might easily give wrong informations to the users.