On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Klaus Layer <klaus.la...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > since several months a user Rozanne is changing AppDB entries without > contacting the maintainers. Most of the changes so far were minor changes. > But today I was informed that Rozanne just deleted an entry which was > maintained by me. According to the email I received, there were duplicated > entries for the programm Mapsource. I regard deleting entries from Appdb > without giving the maintainer a chance to backup what they maintained a > *very* unfriendly act. I would have merged the two entries under one to save > the valuable information users added to AppDB. Just deleting entries from > AppDB, deletes information the wine community collected to support using > wine. Users spent a lot of time and just deleting their work is *not* > acceptable. > > Can someone of the adminstrators of AppDB please make sure that Rozanne stops > deleting entries from AppDB without informing the maintainers before. I would > expect to be informed about such an action before and that I as a maintainer > have the right to discuss was is being delete and what not. > > Thanks, > > Klaus > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: AppDB <appdb-nore...@winehq.org> > To: appdb-nore...@winehq.org > Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:42:12 -0600 > Subject: [AppDB] Submitter screenshots deleted > > Submitter screenshots deleted > ------------------------------------------------------- > The screenshots you submitted for MapSource 6.13.7 have been deleted because > MapSource 6.13.7 was deleted. > The action was performed by Rosanne > Reasons given > The parent entry was deleted. The reason given for that deletion was: > Duplicate entry > > Best regards. > The AppDB team > http://appdb.winehq.org/ > > > If you don't want to receive any other e-mail, please change your preferences: > http://appdb.winehq.org/preferences.php > > > >
Well, Rozanne _is_ an AppDB administrator, hence the permission to delete those entries. That said, yes, notice should be given. -- -Austin