Hi Dan, most of that advice was good, but I'll comment on one thing you said:
> Lastly, once the patch is clean and you can send it correctly (test on > yourself and compare with patches sent that get accepted), send it to > the correct list for patches, which is wine-patches, not wine-devel. It's fairly normal to invite comment on a patch on wine-devel before sending it to wine-patches. I think that's fine, especially as he's just starting out. --Juan