On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Henri Verbeet<hverb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/6/25 Ken Sharp <kennyb...@o2.co.uk>: >> To give a scale of the problem: >> There are approx. 7700 program in the appdb. >> There are approx 21,730 comments going back to 2004. >> If it's not the maintainer's job to make sure the comments aren't tidied up, >> whose is it? >> >> I'm not the only admin cleaning up comments. >> > It's not entirely clear to me why old comments need to be deleted.
Without having looked at the pages in question, I can say that often when reading through the AppDB, the comments are often (months/years) old, with outdated information, e.g.,: "to get foobar running in wine, install riched20, gdiplus, dcom98, riched30, msxml3, comctl32, and vcrun6 with winetricks," even though the only thing _actually_ needed is vcrun6. For popular applications, there's also a lot of 'me too' comments crowding the page, howto's that should be at the top, bug reports that should be in bugzilla, etc. -- -Austin
