Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com writes:
At the same time, I agree of course that just the contributor's desire to work on something is enough to consider submitted work. For this patch what kind of feedback would you expect?
I think the feedback/review, in general, has been fair/valid. I am disagreeing in how explicit Wine is being, as a project, for testing patches before submitting upstream.
The issue is not testing the patch, it's demonstrating that there's a need for it in the first place.
That has been the policy forever, we only implement things that are actually used by a real application. There are tons of things in the Windows API that are used only internally, or no longer relevant, or simply never used at all. Adding them only increases our workload for no benefit.