First of all that me address your subject:
I really doubt Apple will ever help Wine, regardless what happens on our
bugzilla. Apple have pretty specific predisposition to open source and they
sure won't change it because of one unsuccessful bug report.
On 03/10/2012 09:33 PM, Charles Davis wrote:
In your defense, I realize that Vitaliy's behavior is not representative
of Wine developers as a whole, and that Jeremy's behavior wasn't exactly
golden, either. I also realize that there really is no build breakage
resulting from the bug, because we don't include any Objective-C headers. He
was convinced that there could have been breakage, however. You--AJ, I'm
talking to you in particular--did not adequately explain to him why this
didn't break the build. Instead, you--Vitaliy in particular--practically
yelled at him--for trying to help! By this point, he's likely told his
colleagues at Apple about his experience. With guys like Vitaliy developing
Wine, is it any wonder Apple doesn't want to help? Are we, the developers,
the real reason Apple isn't contributing? For that matter, are we the real
reason more people *in general* aren't contributing?
Can you show me exactly where did I yell at him? Or where I wasn't polite
enough in explaining that his behavior on _our_ bugzilla is not appropriate
and he either sticks to it, or don't report bugs to us anymore?
When everyone, including AJ telling the person "what you reporting is not an
error from our POV, unless you can come up with a broken application, a test
program/code, or any other proof on a contrary we deem such bugs invalid."
This was the rule of our bugzilla for years. I hope this does not require
yet another explanation why.
And one last thing, all I did is to stop an endless reopening of that bug.
If you think there is/was another way to make Jeremy understand why that bug
was invalid lets hear it.
Vitaliy.
