Andreas Mohr wrote:
And exactly this information should probably be stated in the wine-patches subscription welcome mail.
"If for some reason the Wine patches you submit fail to get applied, then we'd appreciate you taking the effort of submitting your current patch as a new item at bugzilla to help us track your work properly until it's fully applied."
Or, for improved visibility, even state this in the footer of every wine-patches mail sent (probably bad idea, though).
Oh, and a DNS alias (or preferrably forwarder) bugzilla.winehq.org might be useful (after all it's quite common to have that site name, see e.g. bugzilla.kernel.org or bugzilla.mozilla.org etc.).
This would be an excellent idea - it would simply highlight the fact that there is an alternative route to providing visibility for patches that are not accepted. I must admit I had always thought of bugzilla as a bug-reporting mechanism and I hadn't thought of using it in this manner: to open a bug specifically in order to present your own fix!
John.