On Monday 25 September 2006 15:27, Steven Edwards wrote:
Which is why we want to have the ambassadors project to help new people in to wine. ... if... the developers that are defacto maintainers of a certain section of code will respond to patches as they seem them... the experts in that area should take a step up and monitor wine-patches and say what patch X.Y.Zsucks and julliard most likely will not merge it.this will free julliard from having to answer every single patch with a reply.
So when it comes to code, everything must be done exactly the "right" way, but when it comes to process defects, we're happy to hack around them? :-)
Presumably nobody who's gratuitously abusive would be counted among those experts since it's not helpful to get "feedback" from somebody who's in a truckload of filters.
Now in the case of Ge where he was patching core functions of ntdll,kernel32,wineserver,etc I guess it would still fall to julliard to reply personally but in the case of other modules
It's also remains a haphazard process where things can (and so will) fall through the cracks.