http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495
--- Comment #376 from Jerome Leclanche adys.wh@gmail.com 2012-10-13 04:52:06 CDT --- (In reply to comment #375) Not to go into politics, but code freeze or not this comment is still inappropriate, and sounds more like "Not a chance in hell this will ever see the light of day" than "What are you thinking, submitting this now".
Regardless of the official position of Wine as a project, there are Wine developers who are simply against pulse and this is reflected in the attitude displayed towards the efforts put into the winepulse driver.
Take it like this: If pulse frustrates you, think how frustrating it must be to write a driver for it.