https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44406
--- Comment #18 from Zebediah Figura z.figura12@gmail.com --- (In reply to Sveinar Søpler from comment #16)
(In reply to Zebediah Figura from comment #14)
The suggestion was made, and some people (mostly Vincent, more recently also Alistair among others) have been trying to do so. That said, none of the Staging people attended the last conference (and indeed they've been radio-silent since early November, before the conference began), so it's not really the case that the agreed-upon intent is now to get rid of Staging.
"They" (WineHQ and wine-staging) have a webpage. If this was the latest "Lets do it" agreed upon, they should post it.
Having a "we talked about this at WineConf, and if you were not there you are left in the dark" sense to it is kinda.. well.. not what everyone else would deem "customer friendly".
The point I'm trying to make is that there was no "official decision" here; it was more like Vincent said during a discussion on the state of staging that he'd been trying to move staging patches into upstream and that everyone else should too.
Not informing anyone about anything AT ALL makes for shit relationship with users. If noone bothers using your software, scrap it. If ppl use it cos its the only viable alternative, it still does not make it "ok" to be a asshat :) (Yeah, that was meant to WineHQ devs and wine-staging devs).
Extended radio silence from the Staging folks is not ideal, of course, but it's understandable, especially if they were in some degree of uncertainty themselves as to whether they could continue maintaining the project.