http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11674
--- Comment #188 from Alexey Loukianov mooroon2@mail.ru 2012-06-13 19:34:30 CDT --- paolinidiego, I'm not sure it I've got your message right (no surprise, English ins't a native language for most of us here), but if you're about "do not blindly close, improve the patch and include it upstream" - I'm totally agree that having something that makes APPs behave better under Wine is a good thing, but if you would look around bugzilla or wine-patches mailing list you would be surprised about amount of patches that are refused for reasons that might seem obscure at a first glance. In-proc wineserver, PA, pipes - there are a lot of them hanging around, producing a lot of flame in related discussions and having almost no chances to be included in upstream tree with currently used patch accept policies.
From what I've seen over the years I follow Wine project, for rgl patch to be
included it should (a) be a generic solution that works with every app, (b) closely mirrors GL lib behaviour as observed from native code side (i.e. it should behave the same way this API behaves on native, and produce the same measurable results), (c) do not cause extra maintenance burden (having tweak patch each time to maintain per-app compatibility is not a way to go) - core Wine devteam manpower is a limited thing, and (d) patch should be splitted into series of small ones well structured changes that would look convincingly good for AJ and core devs of that part of the Wine that are affected.
I would be happy to be wrong on this, but as far as I can see this patch can't be redone in a way that would comply with above points (and patch author confirms it by telling "суть патча в том - что он требует ручной настройки практически на каждую новую программу" - translation is "main point of the patch is that it requires manual tweaking [to work] for almost every new application") and that means that at best it would be left as it is - as an out of tree patch helping some apps to work better. Looking at the other bugzilla reports then end up being used as a chat + OOT patch hosting, general tendency for them to being mostly ignored and/or closed as WONTFIX or NOTABUG. Nothing more, nothing less. It's not my personal rant against this patch, it's just the general tendency I had spotted over the years I've been using this bugzilla.
Well, it looks like enough flood for me, and so far I had written way more than I wanted to write here initially, thus I simply shut up and hope for the best.