Re: When do regressions become high priority for developers?

2009-08-16 Thread Scott Ritchie
Rein Klazes wrote: > On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:46:19 -0700, you wrote: > >> 14 months seems to be more than reasonable to repair a regression. I'm >> worried about having to forever maintain a separate installation of >> Wine just to use this program. I'll be happy to test further if >> someone is go

Re: When do regressions become high priority for developers?

2009-08-16 Thread Rein Klazes
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:46:19 -0700, you wrote: > >14 months seems to be more than reasonable to repair a regression. I'm >worried about having to forever maintain a separate installation of >Wine just to use this program. I'll be happy to test further if >someone is going to work on this bug but r

Re: When do regressions become high priority for developers?

2009-08-15 Thread Stefan Dösinger
My personal priority are similar to Vincent's. If I cause a regression, I try to fix it *) If its an easy fix, useful hints in the bug report etc, and my time permits *) Or if the fix is important to the one who pays my electricity bills(CodeWeavers) *) If the regression is a real regression bec

Re: When do regressions become high priority for developers?

2009-08-15 Thread Vincent Povirk
I can't speak for the rest of developers, but for me bugs become a priority if: * They are regressions caused by a patch that I wrote. * They are in an area that I know well (gdiplus, windowscodecs, explorer/appbar.c). * CodeWeavers, my employer, decides that they should. There are only a few area

RE: When do regressions become high priority for developers?

2009-08-15 Thread Nicklas Börjesson
>That's a tough question. Note that Photoshop CS3 >installer has been busted for months Yep, the same problem busts the CS4 installer as well, so both CS3 and CS4 has gone from working(with tricks, practically flawless in CS4s case) to non-installable. >From what I have understood, this is not re

re: When do regressions become high priority for developers?

2009-08-15 Thread Dan Kegel
Matt Perry wrote: > When do regressions become high priority for developers? > [SecureCRT broke with wine-0.9.54, > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13583 ] > 14 months seems to be more than reasonable to repair a regression. That's a tough question.Note that Photoshop

When do regressions become high priority for developers?

2009-08-15 Thread Matt Perry
When do regressions become high priority for developers? I ask because I opened bug 13583 over 14 months ago, provided all the information requested, as did other people, and nothing has happened. The program worked with Wine 0.9.53 but has been broken since then. I have continued to test the