On 5/14/07, Stefan Dösinger stefandoesinger@gmx.at wrote:
Hi Tom! I am afraid you have come accross an unmaintained part of wine. There is maybe nobody who can competently help you. Nobody minds helping you, but nobody can help you.
What happens then is that you write a mail and get no answers. You get frustrated(not your fault), write a mail in which you complain nobody has answered. 3 persons who do no know the part of wine you're modifying reply 3 different answers. Discussions start, and then AJ stops applying patches until the discussions have come to a conclusion.
Ok, thank you very much. That was exactly what I needed to hear.
Thats just what I think has happened, but I don't know the uninstaller eiter. So count this as a 4th answer to "why does nobody answer me" :-)
It wasnt so much a question of why does nobody answer me.. I have been getting responses, it's just that I was not getting anywhere with the responses I was getting. I have all of the information I need I think to be able to finally get this handled now..
As for finding out what aj disliked about your patches my experience is that it is best to ask him on irc(#winehackers on freenode). But I also know that aj stops looking at patches if there is way too much dispute about them. In this case you should send single patches to wine-patches starting that you want to start the process over. Of course the patches should have the suggestions implemented that were made before, or if not a good reason why you have chosen to do otherwise(Not all suggestions are good).
My last question is this: What is an acceptable amount of time I should wait before asking AJ what is wrong with a patch? I see that patches get submitted and then the next day they are committed oftentimes. However I would like I am pressuring him if I submit a patch, it didnt get committed the next day, and then I shortly after ask him what was wrong. So, should I wait until day 2 or so? Unfortunately my company firewall blocks all of the IRC ports, so I can't get onto freenode from work, and by the time I get home, most times #winehackers (well #winehq anyways) is dead. I'll check in winehackers next time..
Thank you very much for putting my fears to rest. Now for the arduous task of starting over heheh.