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, but > > it is time consuming to manage merge conflicts. > > It's very easy to say Alexandre should do this or Alexandre shouldn't do > that when you haven't put yourself in his shoes, and tried to do what > he's doing. > > Fact is, it's a difficult and time consuming job. By reviewing your > patches, Alexandre is doing you and everybody else in the Wine community > a service. > > Secondly, patches that get no response are not "rejected". You should > consider them as "not obviously correct" rather than incorrect. The > problem may be simply that they're too complex to review and reply to in > a short amount of time. > > I don't think a web based patch tracking system will work for reasons > pointed out by Jeremy in another mail, and that it would be very > difficult to integrate it with Alexandre's work flow without wasting > more of his time. > > So I have some possible ways to enhance the current procedures: > > 1) When somebody has sent a patch to wine-patches that hasn't been > applied for a few days, write to wine-devel and request that others > review it. > > 2) Enter into bugzilla the *problem* that your patch addresses (not the > patch itself), and attach the patch to the bug. > > These may not be to your liking, but if they're not, fork Wine and > maintain your own public Wine tree, as Alexandre's tree is maintained > using Alexandre's methods. > > Mike
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 management capability which allows me to manage my local tree and keep in sync with wineHQ. But wine is my/our toy now as well as Alexandre's and I for one want to make it better. In that Alexandre and I should be in agreement and perhaps he should consider some of the positive measures I have suggested. Bob
