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== Status / News == | |||
Now that James has merged the preview and splash screen changes, he wants to start a concerted effort to improve the metadata of all the aircraft in FGaddon. This means: | |||
* ensuring there’s a suitable ‘long' description | |||
* adding / updating ratings | |||
* ensuring variant / primary info is correct | |||
* ideally adapting to the new preview/splash system, (but not required) | |||
* adding metadata tags, for better searching/usability the future | |||
All of these are intended to help users browsing the aircraft, via the launcher or other methods. James's proposal is to post about this on the forum, and ask for volunteers to pick aircraft, and submit patches / updates to myself and some other willing reviewers (Stuart has also volunteered as reviewer, more people are welcome). Aside form ensuring high quality, we also need to ensure that aircraft maintainers are given the opportunity to update their own aircraft. Any co-volunteers to manage the process, and especially suggestions on how to manage this in a way that is friendly towards aircraft maintainers, but also gives a reasonable chance, that 90% of aircraft in FGaddon have up-to-date metatdata by the next release, are welcome. I’m sure we will have the usual debate on subjectivity of ratings, but, that’s another thing the reviewers will have to deal with. (James Turner suggested there’s some criteria on the wiki from the last time we did this?) (There’s a task on me to link the tagging system into the aircraft search, so that searching on ‘fighter’ or ‘glass-cockpit’ brings up appropriate matches. This tends to work out anyway when aircraft have a long-description text, but it’s still very beneficial to the launcher to have some meta-data about how aircraft are used)<ref>{{cite web | |||
|url = https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/35688820/ | |||
|title = <nowiki> [Flightgear-devel] Improving FGaddon aircraft meta-data </nowiki> | |||
|author = <nowiki> James Turner </nowiki> | |||
|date = Feb 26th, 2017 | |||
|added = Feb 26th, 2017 | |||
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