> Perhaps we could have two ways of entering keywords,
> a drop down list of trusted keywords, and an optional
> free form entry of keywords. If it's easy to skip the
> optional section, most people would, and then we wouldn't
> get too much garbage in.
For me it would have been better to have a 'muli-selection' list rather than
a drop down... So you could have put an application is more than one 'genre'.
> Sorry; I mean that each application would have it's
> own Wine web page. Thus, there would be a ./juno.html,
> a ./monkeyisland3.html, and so on. The idea is that,
> just as SourceForge created a home for many projects
> floating around out there, I think the apps database
> could create a home for all of the Wine info floating
> around out there.
OK, I understand now. This is the page I spoke in my original mail that
would be maintained by the person responsible for the app (the 'app
maintainer').
> Hmm. I disagree, but only mildly. I suspect
> that this is the sort of thing that will evolve as needed,
> and your proposed structure does solve the problem nicely.
> My key concern is that because we can see all of the
> complex exceptions (e.g. Quake III), we're going to
> have an interface that handles all of the exceptions,
> instead of being brutally simple for the majority
> of non exceptions.
I know I have always the tendency to do complicated things first trying to
plan for the most complicated situations :-)
> I'm easily persuaded on this one. My only concern was
> for people who were getting Wine that came with a distro,
> and so wasn't readily identified, but I think you're right.
Well, doing a 'wine --version' and pasting the numerical string (and doing
'checks' that it is really a released Wine version) would be really easy to
do both on the user side and on the database side.
> However, perhaps we could add a weight as part of
> the score. That is, we could ask how often the user uses the app.
> Everyday, occassionally, or 'I just brought it up to
> see how Wine works and then rebooted to Windows, but it
> rocks, man!'.
Yes, good idea... Now we would only need to find some description of the
different level of usage :-)
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