Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-29 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Ge van Geldorp wrote: Actually, that's not how I intended things to work. The automatic removal from the queue would only happen if the patch had a RFC status, i.e. if action is expected from the patch submitter. If the patch is unopposed and just waiting in the queue, it should stay there. It's

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-29 Thread Jakob Eriksson
Mike McCormack wrote: Ge van Geldorp wrote: My objective is to improve Wine by maximizing the number of patches of acceptable quality. In my opinion, this can be done by: 1) assuring no patches get lost 2) assuring an author gets informed about why his patch is not acceptable in its current

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-28 Thread Ge van Geldorp
From: Vitaliy Margolen [EMAIL PROTECTED] So in a sense you will require some one to respond for any incoming e-mail to wine-patches. And if no one does, Alexandre don't get to see the status? Not sure I understand what you mean. If no-one responds to the patch on wine-devel the patch

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-28 Thread Frans Kool
Ge van Geldorp ge at gse.nl writes: From: Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel at kievinfo.com So in a sense you will require some one to respond for any incoming e-mail to wine-patches. And if no one does, Alexandre don't get to see the status? Not sure I understand what you mean. If

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-28 Thread Troy Rollo
On Thursday 28 September 2006 05:49, Mike McCormack wrote: Seems like that is a system that doesn't scale well at all, as it requires Alexandre to specifically respond to each and every patch. He still has to take an action to review each patch now, and presumably some action to remove it

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-28 Thread Mike McCormack
Ge van Geldorp wrote: My objective is to improve Wine by maximizing the number of patches of acceptable quality. In my opinion, this can be done by: 1) assuring no patches get lost 2) assuring an author gets informed about why his patch is not acceptable in its current form so he can improve

RE: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-28 Thread Ge van Geldorp
Hello Mike, From: Mike McCormack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That sounds good, but it's not reasonable to put the responsibility on Alexandre, as he has enough work already. Unless you can read Alexandres mind, he's really the only one who can tell what he didn't like about a certain

RE: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-28 Thread Ge van Geldorp
From: Jakob Eriksson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been watching this thread with keen interest. Alexandre does not HAVE to respond to that patch, he can silently ignore it just like he can now. The only difference with Patchwork would be that after a certain time with no

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 22:09, Alexandre Julliard wrote: Robert Lunnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well thats at least a reasoned response, even if I don't agree with the reasoning. But again you simply miss the point. I don't care that Alexandre doesn't move my patches (because its not

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-27 Thread Ge van Geldorp
From: Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you expect anything to happen, you'll need to make much more concrete suggestions, and provide examples to make us understand how what you are suggesting would work in practice Fair enough. Some disclaimers upfront: I'm basically thinking

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-27 Thread Mike McCormack
Ge van Geldorp wrote: It would make sure the author always receives some kind of feedback (either from the bot, other developers or yourself) and would make sure patches don't get lost (patches are automatically entered into the system and only leave the system when the author withdraws them

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-27 Thread James Hawkins
On 9/27/06, Mike McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Responding to each and every patch seems like it would be a waste of Alexandre's time. We should encourage more people to participate in the patch review process, so that we have more reviewers and a more scalable process. +1 -- James

RE: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-27 Thread Ge van Geldorp
From: Mike McCormack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems like that is a system that doesn't scale well at all, as it requires Alexandre to specifically respond to each and every patch. No, it doesn't require that. It requires *someone* to respond, that could be a fellow developer on

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-27 Thread Troy Rollo
On Thursday 28 September 2006 05:49, Mike McCormack wrote: Seems like that is a system that doesn't scale well at all, as it requires Alexandre to specifically respond to each and every patch. He still has to take an action to review each patch now, and presumably some action to remove it

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-27 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Ge van Geldorp wrote: From: Mike McCormack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems like that is a system that doesn't scale well at all, as it requires Alexandre to specifically respond to each and every patch. No, it doesn't require that. It requires *someone* to respond, that could be a

Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-26 Thread Troy Rollo
As I speculated, the reason the PPC64 Patchwork example was so out of date was that the PPC64 list had been folded into the vanilla PPC list, however the big problem right now is that Patchwork is extra work for maintainers, so right now they don't want to use it. It ought to go without saying

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-26 Thread Mike McCormack
Since you know better, how about maintaining your own Wine tree and showing us how it's done? Self evidently thats what I have to do until some core functionality patches find their way into WineHQ wine. It's not particularly hard, but it is time consuming to manage merge conflicts. It's

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-26 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 19:35, Mike McCormack wrote: Since you know better, how about maintaining your own Wine tree and showing us how it's done? Self evidently thats what I have to do until some core functionality patches find their way into WineHQ wine. It's not particularly hard,

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-26 Thread Jeremy White
Troy Rollo wrote: As I speculated, the reason the PPC64 Patchwork example was so out of date was that the PPC64 list had been folded into the vanilla PPC list, however the big problem right now is that Patchwork is extra work for maintainers, so right now they don't want to use it. Ouch.

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-26 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Robert Lunnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well thats at least a reasoned response, even if I don't agree with the reasoning. But again you simply miss the point. I don't care that Alexandre doesn't move my patches (because its not true that he doesn't) and since I now have a patch

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-26 Thread Jeremy White
I didn't respond to Alexandre's point earlier, but wanted to now: To the private email issues, Alexandre replied: There are a fair number of such cases, yes. Not so much the bad patches but the corrupted/mangled/doesn't apply patches; I don't want to fill wine-devel with this patch is

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-26 Thread Mike McCormack
Accepted patches will appear in the wine-cvs mailing list. Patches with obvious problems may receive a response on wine-devel. Some patches may not receive any response. In this case, your patch maybe considered 'Not Obviously Correct', and you can: * check the patch over yourself, and

Re: Patchwork (was Re: Governance revisited)

2006-09-26 Thread Troy Rollo
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 22:55, Jeremy White wrote: 1. We can write a utility that lets us compare a winehq commit message to a wine-patches email and see if there is a 'match'. 100% isn't required, but some nice non zero number is. A key requirement is that

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Ge van Geldorp
From: Steven Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which is why we want to have the ambassadors project to help new people in to wine. The thinking goes that if we have some people to help hold the hands of new developers and the developers that are defacto maintainers of a certain section of code

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread Kai Blin
On Sunday 24 September 2006 12:08, Ge van Geldorp wrote: Like I said before, I have a lot of respect for Alexandres technical abilities. But when I read comments in the Wineconf report about git: Developers might not like it, but Alexandre does so it's a success (did I mention I dislike git

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Dimi Paun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bottom line, I don't know. At most I can say that sometimes I wish Alexandre would be a bit more impulsive, and just let (a selected few) things in that people want. Maybe this way we generate more excitement, and the tiny bit of quality drop we pay with would

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Monday 25 September 2006 04:36, Robert Shearman wrote: Robert Lunnon wrote: 2. Adapt the patch acceptance process to create a right of appeal where a patch can be proven to be within the Patch Acceptance policy. Appeal should be independent of and binding on Alexandre - this eliminates

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Sunday 24 September 2006 00:36, Rolf Kalbermatter wrote: Robert Lunnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On community, the wine project doesn't represent a community in the sense that Wine has an altruistic purpose to provide value to that community - It doesn't do that because the wine developer

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Saturday 23 September 2006 16:36, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: Jim White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Steven cited the business at Wineconf of Alexandre never being proved wrong on a technical matter. Another straw man. The part of Alexandre's patch process that is the root of this

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread Ge van Geldorp
From: Kai Blin Now, getting back to the patch submission process, you're talking about a patch management system. How would that look like, in your opinion. We were discussing a couple of ideas, but in the end figured that most of those would slow down the submission speed of patches that

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Sunday 24 September 2006 01:06, Rolf Kalbermatter wrote: Jim White wrote: CodeWeavers Wine version is full of patches that Alexandre won't accept for WineHQ. Obvious proof that the Alexandre's policy isn't the only way to make a Wine that people value. In fact it proves that the

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Saturday 23 September 2006 16:42, Mike McCormack wrote: The current process is crippling this project, limiting the developer base and reducing community value. Without some healthy dissent it will never change and get better. I am a friend of change, a true believer in the process

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread n0dalus
On 9/25/06, Ge van Geldorp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is genuine interest to make this work I could put up a few mock webpages to get a better idea of how it would work. See also my similar post regarding a patch system:

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Monday 25 September 2006 20:08, Ge van Geldorp wrote: From: Steven Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which is why we want to have the ambassadors project to help new people in to wine. The thinking goes that if we have some people to help hold the hands of new developers and the developers

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Dimi Paun
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 19:47 +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: Dimi, I thought you were aware of it, and Alexandre at least at previous WineConf stated that he accepts dubious code in cases, when he sees that nobody works on some component: that components were OLE/COM, DDraw/D3D, BiDi at some

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread Peter Beutner
Hi Ge van Geldorp wrote: If there is genuine interest to make this work I could put up a few mock webpages to get a better idea of how it would work. maybe it is worth looking at patchwork? --- PatchWork is a web-based patch tracking system designed to facilitate the

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread Jeremy White
maybe it is worth looking at patchwork? --- PatchWork is a web-based patch tracking system designed to facilitate the contribution and management of contributions to an open-source project. Patches that have been sent to a mailing list are 'caught' by the system, and

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Dimi Paun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, I must say that the most fun I had with Wine was when Alexandre let me run with listview a few year back. He clearly committed patches that weren't perfect, but I appreciated that because that's how I work: I like to do several iterations, maybe redo

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Troy Rollo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I say I've been coding since I was 14 (in those days home computers had less than 1% penetration in Australia), in assembly language since shortly after that and raw machine code not long after, having memorised the instruction set, then was widely

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread n0dalus
On 9/25/06, Jeremy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. Now I'm worried; I've long thought this would be a Good Idea (TM), and yet if you look at the 'live' project site (presumably the project this was built for): http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc64/ It's pretty clear that it's not

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread Troy Rollo
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 00:16, Jeremy White wrote: Hmm. Now I'm worried; I've long thought this would be a Good Idea (TM), and yet if you look at the 'live' project site (presumably the project this was built for): http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc64/ It's pretty clear that it's

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread jimtabor
Hi, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: How many projects have you ever participated in? Every developers' mailing list of an open source I personally participated in *doesn't guarantee* not only patch acceptance, but even a reply with explanations why the patch has been silently dropped, and it

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Troy Rollo
On Monday 25 September 2006 23:05, Robert Lunnon wrote: On Saturday 23 September 2006 16:42, Mike McCormack wrote: Since you know better, how about maintaining your own Wine tree and showing us how it's done? Self evidently thats what I have to do until some core functionality patches find

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread James Hawkins
On 9/25/06, jimtabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every Wine developer needs to read this, http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ and http://www.codeweavers.com/services/wine . I'm a Wine developer, and I don't work for codeweavers. Why should I read that? It is your job to provide support for

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread jimtabor
James Hawkins wrote: On 9/25/06, jimtabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every Wine developer needs to read this, http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ and http://www.codeweavers.com/services/wine . I'm a Wine developer, and I don't work for codeweavers. Why should I read that? You don't

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread James Hawkins
On 9/25/06, jimtabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Hawkins wrote: On 9/25/06, jimtabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every Wine developer needs to read this, http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ and http://www.codeweavers.com/services/wine . I'm a Wine developer, and I don't work

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread jimtabor
Wow, just like that! James Hawkins wrote: It is shocking to most FOSS code writers that maybe this is a real, truly, paid for project. No! It can not be! I contribute to someones profit? NOO~~~!. The above is a famous quote I read from Linux Journal magazine. I am well aware that

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
jimtabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First, he doesn't represent Codeweavers on the wine-devel mailing list. Second, there's nothing unprofessional about his actions. Missed my point! If his address has [EMAIL PROTECTED], than yes, that person does represent that organization. Then check

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-25 Thread Tom Wickline
On 9/25/06, jimtabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every Wine developer needs to read this, http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ and http://www.codeweavers.com/services/wine . What do these two pages have to do with Wine's Governance ? It is your job to provide support for this product, I spend

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-25 Thread Vincent Povirk
I don't have any real reason to have a say in this (as someone who hasn't successfully made any changes to the wine tree, for which I blame my inability to contribute anything that belongs there rather than any problems with the current system), but I was just thinking that Patch management

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-24 Thread Ge van Geldorp
From: Kai Blin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:32, Scott Ritchie wrote: Frankly, all we really need is for Alexandre to write a 10-second reply to wine-devel for each patch he rejects. On WineConf, we decided against this. That would still slow down the overall

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-24 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Hiji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Mike McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: wine-devel@winehq.org; Marcus Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:42:36 PM Subject: Re: Governance revisited The current process

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-24 Thread Jeff Latimer
Vitaliy Margolen wrote: The next question is how long does someone wait till resorting to Bugzilla. Depending on the criteria it could generate a fair bit of -several days :) As in if some one wants to fix something, they should either provide a test (best choice) or open bug and

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-24 Thread Tony Lambregts
Andreas Mohr wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:52:45PM -0600, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: Dr J A Gow wrote: How to capture these 'lost' contributions is a difficult issue. Maybe a centralized repository for patches could be maintained separate from the main Wine tree and with a very

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-24 Thread Jeff Latimer
Scott Ritchie wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 11:24 +0200, Kai Blin wrote: On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:32, Scott Ritchie wrote: Frankly, all we really need is for Alexandre to write a 10-second reply to wine-devel for each patch he rejects. On WineConf, we decided against

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-24 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
From: Kai Blin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:32, Scott Ritchie wrote: Frankly, all we really need is for Alexandre to write a 10-second reply to wine-devel for each patch he rejects. On WineConf, we decided against this. That would still slow down the overall patch

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-24 Thread Kai Blin
On Saturday 23 September 2006 18:10, Hiji wrote: I think Bob, Jim and co. were very diplomatic in their recommendations, and I firmly believe that they symbolize the opinions of a much larger group of people. I don't think they've overstepped their boundaries at all, have complained or

RE: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-24 Thread Rolf Kalbermatter
Robert Lunnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On community, the wine project doesn't represent a community in the sense that Wine has an altruistic purpose to provide value to that community - It doesn't do that because the wine developer base doesn't measure important to Wine users and set

RE: Governance revisited

2006-09-24 Thread Rolf Kalbermatter
Jim White wrote: CodeWeavers Wine version is full of patches that Alexandre won't accept for WineHQ. Obvious proof that the Alexandre's policy isn't the only way to make a Wine that people value. In fact it proves that the WineHQ's patch process is not good enough to make Wine that people

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-24 Thread Robert Shearman
Jim White wrote: The whole quality and hack language is a red herring. To see that it is selective and subjective, just look at the code, try xrender.c for example. The difference is that presumably the person who submitted that code demonstrated that they understood the problem that they

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-24 Thread Robert Shearman
Robert Lunnon wrote: 2. Adapt the patch acceptance process to create a right of appeal where a patch can be proven to be within the Patch Acceptance policy. Appeal should be independent of and binding on Alexandre - this eliminates one-to-one arguments about patch acceptability while still

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-24 Thread Troy Rollo
On Saturday 23 September 2006 11:39, Steven Edwards wrote: As it stands right now the only reason technically good patches have been rejected is due to concerns over reverse engineering in another project. I don't see the difference between rejection and I won't put this in yet because I

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-24 Thread Troy Rollo
On Saturday 23 September 2006 19:24, Kai Blin wrote: On WineConf, we decided against this. That would still slow down the overall patch submission speed. Consider you have a patch that's just fine, but before you sent that, I sent in ten patches with C++ style comments. Alexandre would now

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-24 Thread Dimi Paun
On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 12:36 +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: Everyone who complaints about problems with patch acceptance policy seem to claim that, but my impression is that complaints are going from technically incompetent people, who just feels that the process can be improved, but can't

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-24 Thread Troy Rollo
On Monday 25 September 2006 13:16, Dimi Paun wrote: On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 12:36 +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: Everyone who complaints about problems with patch acceptance policy seem to claim that, but my impression is that complaints are going from technically incompetent people, who just

Governance revisited

2006-09-24 Thread Steven Edwards
-- Forwarded message --From: Steven Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Sep 25, 2006 1:27 AM Subject: Re: Governance revisitedTo: Troy Rollo [EMAIL PROTECTED]On 9/25/06, Troy Rollo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The present system turns people off even before you've had time to learnwhether

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-24 Thread Troy Rollo
On Monday 25 September 2006 15:27, Steven Edwards wrote: Which is why we want to have the ambassadors project to help new people in to wine. ... if... the developers that are defacto maintainers of a certain section of code will respond to patches as they seem them... the experts in that area

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-23 Thread Jim White
Steven Edwards wrote: What you and others are asking for is the right to add broken hacks for the sake of user experience. ... I didn't ask for anything and I said I don't think WineHQ is even able to change this process. Misconstruing the words, intent, and plain meaning expressed by

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-23 Thread Mike McCormack
The current process is crippling this project, limiting the developer base and reducing community value. Without some healthy dissent it will never change and get better. I am a friend of change, a true believer in the process of continuous improvement. I believe one day, the WIne project

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-23 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Jim White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your efforts don't add value to it either. All you trying to do, is create another poor quality software that whole world just can't get rid of. If you so much like to have bad quality patches, why don't you start your own repository, and grant patch

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 15:26 +0930, n0dalus wrote: A good patch handling system might: - Watch the wine-patches list, automatically adding patches and comments (replies) - Provide a way to categorise/tag patches - Have a way of creating patch sets, which can be downloaded as a single diff

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-23 Thread Kai Blin
On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:32, Scott Ritchie wrote: Frankly, all we really need is for Alexandre to write a 10-second reply to wine-devel for each patch he rejects. On WineConf, we decided against this. That would still slow down the overall patch submission speed. Consider you have a

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-23 Thread Scott Ritchie
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 11:24 +0200, Kai Blin wrote: On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:32, Scott Ritchie wrote: Frankly, all we really need is for Alexandre to write a 10-second reply to wine-devel for each patch he rejects. On WineConf, we decided against this. That would still slow down the

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-23 Thread Hiji
- Original Message From: Mike McCormack [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: wine-devel@winehq.org; Marcus Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 11:42:36 PM Subject: Re: Governance revisited The current process is crippling this project, limiting

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Thursday 21 September 2006 03:48, Jeremy White wrote: Wine works fine as-is in my opinion ;) Which you are entitled to, but my opinion happens to differ. Whether the wine core source has all the patches, (Which it doesn't - many, but not all) isn't relevant, it's the process that they

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Thursday 21 September 2006 04:25, Mike McCormack wrote: Robert Lunnon wrote: Which you are entitled to, but my opinion happens to differ. Whether the wine core source has all the patches, (Which it doesn't - many, but not all) isn't relevant, it's the process that they go through that I

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-22 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Thursday 21 September 2006 07:09, Dr J A Gow wrote: After having followed this thread for some time, I feel that there is an aspect that is often missed in the debate. As I see it, it would appear that Wine contributors fall into essentially two camps. There are those who develop Wine for

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-22 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Jeff Latimer wrote: And exactly this information should probably be stated in the wine-patches subscription welcome mail. If for some reason the Wine patches you submit fail to get applied, then we'd appreciate you taking the effort of submitting your current patch as a new item at bugzilla

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-22 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Robert Lunnon wrote: Getting feedback isn't always easy, so listen when you get it. If you don't want to go to the effort required to get your patches into Alexandre's tree, they're not going to get in themselves. Mike Rubbish, The current process is crippling this project,

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-22 Thread Steven Edwards
Hello Robert,I am an employee of CodeWeavers and one of the former project coordinators of the ReactOS Project though my views do not represent either the position of my employer or the ReactOS Project of which I am no longer actively affiliated. This thread was part of the reason I wanted to

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-22 Thread Jim White
Vitaliy Margolen wrote: Robert Lunnon wrote: Getting feedback isn't always easy, so listen when you get it. If you don't want to go to the effort required to get your patches into Alexandre's tree, they're not going to get in themselves. Mike Rubbish, The current process is crippling

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-22 Thread Steven Edwards
Hi Jim,On 9/22/06, Jim White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven cited the business at Wineconf of Alexandre never being provedwrong on a technical matter.Another straw man.The part ofAlexandre's patch process that is the root of this conflict between Wine development-focused developers vs. Wine

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-22 Thread n0dalus
On 9/23/06, Robert Lunnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Publish the patch acceptance policy - Make sure this is the acceptance policy and not the patch acceptance process. The Patch acceptance policy should be developed by community process and be subject to change (and change control). Perhaps a

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-21 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:52:45PM -0600, Vitaliy Margolen wrote: Dr J A Gow wrote: How to capture these 'lost' contributions is a difficult issue. Maybe a centralized repository for patches could be maintained separate from the main Wine tree and with a very loose method of

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-21 Thread Dr J A Gow
Andreas Mohr wrote: And exactly this information should probably be stated in the wine-patches subscription welcome mail. If for some reason the Wine patches you submit fail to get applied, then we'd appreciate you taking the effort of submitting your current patch as a new item at

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-21 Thread Jeff Latimer
Andreas Mohr wrote: Why reinvent the wheel? If such people can spend their time chasing down the problem and developing a fix for it, they sure can open a bug in bugzilla, describe theproblem and attach a patch they made. How more simple can it be? No patches lost, no extra places to look

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-20 Thread Robert Lunnon
On Sunday 17 September 2006 21:48, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 08:09:24AM +1000, Robert Lunnon wrote: I note the recent flamefest, where some of this list seared yet another contributor (Roland Kaeser) Since this particular very old, very shrivelled chestnut. is one of

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-20 Thread Jeremy White
Wine works fine as-is in my opinion ;) Which you are entitled to, but my opinion happens to differ. Whether the wine core source has all the patches, (Which it doesn't - many, but not all) isn't relevant, it's the process that they go through that I believe could improve. For the

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-20 Thread Mike McCormack
Robert Lunnon wrote: Which you are entitled to, but my opinion happens to differ. Whether the wine core source has all the patches, (Which it doesn't - many, but not all) isn't relevant, it's the process that they go through that I believe could improve. The way to get your changes in is

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-20 Thread Vijay Kiran Kamuju
Some kinda patch management system would help. I think like bugzilla. On 9/20/06, Jeremy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wine works fine as-is in my opinion ;) Which you are entitled to, but my opinion happens to differ. Whether the wine core source has all the patches, (Which it doesn't -

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-20 Thread Brian Vincent
On 9/20/06, Vijay Kiran Kamuju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some kinda patch management system would help. I think like bugzilla. It'd better have an emacs interface ;) -Brian

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-20 Thread Dr J A Gow
After having followed this thread for some time, I feel that there is an aspect that is often missed in the debate. As I see it, it would appear that Wine contributors fall into essentially two camps. There are those who develop Wine for Wine's sake. This category includes the core developers,

Re: Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

2006-09-20 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Dr J A Gow wrote: How to capture these 'lost' contributions is a difficult issue. Maybe a centralized repository for patches could be maintained separate from the main Wine tree and with a very loose method of acceptance (maybe just ensure that it is clearly indicated what the patch is for

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-17 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 08:09:24AM +1000, Robert Lunnon wrote: I note the recent flamefest, where some of this list seared yet another contributor (Roland Kaeser) Since this particular very old, very shrivelled chestnut. is one of my personal favourites (thanks to Colin Wright for the

Governance revisited

2006-09-16 Thread Robert Lunnon
I note the recent flamefest, where some of this list seared yet another contributor (Roland Kaeser) Since this particular very old, very shrivelled chestnut. is one of my personal favourites (thanks to Colin Wright for the chestnut thing...). I'd like to repeat my observations about this. Feel

Re: Governance revisited

2006-09-16 Thread Kai Blin
On Sunday 17 September 2006 00:09, you wrote: I note the recent flamefest, where some of this list seared yet another contributor (Roland Kaeser) You might have noticed that none of the core contributers commented on this, because they're all at WineConf right now. Just chill, I think there'll