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 for. And all the information
describing the
problem. Everything in one place.
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 to help us track your work properly until it's
fully applied."
The next question is how long does someone wait till resorting to
Bugzilla. Depending on the criteria it could generate a fair bit of
noise in the database with a lot of patches that would normally be
accepted after a couple of goes. Who is responsible for clearing the
bug report after acceptance? Unless you are actually actively pushing
the patch for acceptance, the submitter of a patch to Bugzilla would
probably be unaware that it had been accepted.
Jeff Latimer
