In looking forward to the release of wine 1.0 I have a question about
"Browse Applications by Rating"
http://appdb.winehq.org/browse_by_rating.php
When adding test data you can only add reports on what looks like the last 6
releases? Eg wine versions 0.956 / 0.957 /0.958 /0.959 /0.960
/0.961
Do these stat's on "Browse Applications by Rating" report this?
If not what does this actually report? Older versions if so how old? Can we have
Change the reporting breakdown the ratings into something
more clearer, to aid people on the project? And have a truer snapshot of wine
and the apps in the appdb?
It still allows you to keep the history of previous ratings for each
eg:
Rating Description No. Apps
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Platinum Applications that install and run out of the box 1410
Version Release Description Breakdown of test results
1.000 Stable (2008-06-06) 507
0.961 Developer Beta (2008-05-02) 500
0.960 Developer Alpha (2008-??-??) 300
0.959 Developer Alpha (2008-??-??) 100
0.958 Developer Alpha (2008-??-??) 100
0.957 Developer Alpha (2008-??-??) 100
Older Retesting of these applications against a recent version of
wine is need (eg:preferably the most current ) 100
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Gold Applications that work flawlessly with some DLL overrides, other settings
or third party software. 1707
<etc..>
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Silver Applications that work excellently for 'normal use' 1164
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Bronze Applications that work but have some issues, even for 'normal
use' 1042
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Garbage Applications that don't work as intended, there should be at least
one bug report if an app gets this rating 2441
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I see it listing only the say the last two to four developer releases of wine
(the oldest being rolled up in to the "Older"summary) and each
stable release of wine staying on the list?
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Question:
In each Application, if the previous rating say platinum in wine 0.960 then
Bronze in wine 0.961 then shouldn't bronze be the status for the
most current developer version of wine for the program? What happens when the
stable release of wine comes out, will users only be expecting
the application rating to reflect how it works with the stable release?
"should'n't the current test only be shown"?
based first on the version of wine then the date of the submission
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I am aware that currently the appdb database test for old version's of wine
already and label the application with "Old test results" box
eg:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=8683
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See:
http://wiki.winehq.org/AppdbInfo
http://wiki.winehq.org/appdbratingpage
Also:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12956
Roderick Colenbrander comment's "A while ago there was a discussion at
wine-devel about redoing the appdb rating
(I also posted a lot of bullets to the appdb rating page at the wiki).
Basically there is nu uniform rating method and apps I would rate lets say
silver would be rated platinum by others because they consider native dlls and
cracks fine. So far nothing has been done about it and personally I would
change this bug to redo the whole rating mechanism."
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Just some food for thought.
Going forward the website needs to be easier to maintain without going thru
hoops to remove stale pages, by directing to wiki so it can be
maintained?
See:
12900 enh P2 othe wine-bugs at winehq.org UNCO Update links in
"development" section to point to wiki if possible
12901 enh P2 othe wine-bugs at winehq.org UNCO Update links in
"about" section to point to wiki if possible
12903 enh P2 othe wine-bugs at winehq.org UNCO Update links in
"Support" section to point to wiki if possible
13003 enh P2 othe wine-bugs at winehq.org UNCO Update to "Add Test
Data" page remove reference to csv
12899 enh P5 othe wine-bugs at winehq.org UNCO Add link to "WineHQ
Menu" to "Wine Forums"
Sorry for the Brain dump,
Regards
Nathan