https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44406
--- Comment #16 from Sveinar Søpler cybermax@dexter.no --- (In reply to Zebediah Figura from comment #14)
(In reply to Luke Short from comment #13)
It was expressed a few months ago at WineConf 2017 that, moving forward, the idea is to work on cleaning up the hacky patches from Wine-Staging and get them into the official Wine project faster. If you keep track of the wine-devel mailing list you will already notice that a lot of patches have already been cleaned up and integrated. With the Wine 3.0 release, Alexandre even gave the greenlight to integrate the long-awaited command stream multi-threading (CSMT) patches.
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".
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).