While it seems Theodore didn't do his homework and didn't know about that source distribution, one of his point remains: it's not a database, git, or something easily readable, just a blob
Oh man, i didn't plan to jump into that "flamewar"...
Sadly, we don't have that internally. We don't rebase all our hacks onto Wine every few weeks and get a "clean" set of patches, Alexandre just does merges. There are pros and cons to this system, but I doubt Alexandre will be willing to change it.
We file bugs in our internal tracker documenting and explaining each hack, but there are still diffs left over from before we adopted that system, which we don't have documented, and may not understand.
Those old diffs can be more of a liability for us, as they're not being tested by the wider community, and just because they helped some application 10 years ago doesn't mean they're not hurting things now.
Simply don't push them out of bugzilla, but sure, we also don't want a flood of new bugs which might not be correctly reported by users...
A "staging" keyword in bugzilla would be a strong indication that wine-staging bugs are desired, but we want to know if there's a difference in behavior between staging and winehq.