Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > "Damjan Jovanovic" <damjan....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Think Wine doesn't accept patches easily, and it's hard to get >> feedback? Think again. > > I think it's not worth an effort to take seriously one post of > apparently clueless anonymous user and a forward to wine-devel > of another anonymous user. We've been through this "maintenance/ > governance" subject before, no need to iterate. >
I'd rather have the opposite problem. We should be inundated with praise for how easy and fun it is to become a Wine developer. Instead of worries about silently dropped patches, contributors should be complaining about how they got too much help. First the patchwatcher tool told them their first patch broke the test suite on a platform they didn't think of. Then their second patch, which passed, was put on a landing page where another developer could click a button and send a review. Then their third patch sat in the queue for two weeks because Alexandre was on vacation, so patchwatcher again sent them an email suggesting they check in on IRC to see if there were other issues. It's only a vision now, but that's the kind of problem with sending patches I'd like us to be dismissing as nonsense. I'll be working on getting patchwatcher back online this week and Luke (the author of that article) already has a prototype of the patch tracking system he mentions. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
