Hi folks, how does this look? http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt I hope to publicise this once wine-1.0.0-rc1 is released. Let me know if the instructions are hard to follow. Thanks, Dan
The explanations are good I think, just a few points (mainly personal opinion) : "even for people who don't know a commandline from a kumquat" Insulting people even for fun and in a funny way isn't a good idea if you want many inexperienced users to discover wine the "good" way. Adding a friendly page on "How to fill a test report" and maybe good examples can be helpful to lower the quantity of bad reports. In the past, test reports was taking a really long time to be accepted, I hope there will be enough people ready to read them for the hunt. And is there a way to see the platinium rating software without test reports on a specific version of wine ? Might be useful to limit the quantity of platinium software not going through the test.
One other thing to think about including in the instructions is if applications are tested and they crash, rather than paste the crash data in the application database which doesn't work very well, maybe that information should be managed somewhere else? Maybe along with the follow-up post to the forum?
First, make sure your machine runs glxgears properly (if it crashes, you may need to update your graphics drivers) A question: I am not playing games on my computer but my graphic card supports 3D. How can I test this?
a better description for the 3d part is needed (as in 3d running with mesa or with accelerated driver - glxinfo with examples of the used driver would be good) we shouldn't tell the users to nuke their .wine directory renaming or teaching how to use WINEPREFIX would be better
Also using WINEPREFIX is great as long as you know how to set environment variables and not double click on the exe file in a file manager. It might be hard for the users the guide is designed for. You may add some advanced user tips at the end or on another page but keep it simple and short or nobody will read it past the title.