I was about to reply to your previous mail on this matter, suggesting myself as the component owner for BiDi. The reason I didn't do it was because I promised IBM, who have actually made some progress on the matter, I would wait a while longer for a decision to come whether they are able to relase their WINE BiDi support. This "while" is not over yet.
If they manage to relese their code, I think it is best someone from there take ownership of these things (of course, I would love to do so, but as I am doing this *off* hours, and they are doing it *on* hours, plus they have the code to back it up, I think it only makes sense. Don't want to take credit where it's not due).
If IBM come back with a negative answer, or don't come back with an answer at all within a reasonable time, I will start working on things myself. I would apretiate help from anyone who wishes to offer it, especially if they can read and write Arabic (it's been a long long while since I last tried, and I could never get the vocabulary).
If you are looking for an immediate scape-goat, use "winebugzilla at sun consumer org il" as my email. This is a complicated anti-spam riddle that you are expected to solve in order to get to the real email used here. Say no more and live longer ;-).
Shachar
Andriy Palamarchuk wrote:
Please, take a minute to review the list of component owners and give me a feedback privately or throught the mailing list.
We need to define component owners to assign bugs to. These people do not necessarily have to fix the bugs forwarded to them, but will have more detailed knowlege about the status of the component, overview progress in bugs fixing.
The component owners will receive bugs after they will be processed by the first line of bugs handling, confirmed, probably already researched, with detailed information. Goal of the whole process is to reduce load on you more experienced developers. You won't have to tell "update your Wine distribution" in 100'th time. A few contributors are already doing this for you ;-)
So far only a few people took ownership over separate components:
- Guy L. Albetelli - common controls
- Dustin Navea - wine tools
- Andriy Palamarchuk - wine applications
List of candidates:
- Alexandre Julliard - wineserver, kernel, IPC
- Andreas Mohr - documentation, X11 driver
- Dimitrie O. Paun - GUI
- Laurent Pinchart - copy protection
- Hidenori TAKESHIMA - quartz, DirectShow (is the
scope too narrow?), DirectX (?)
- Dmitry Timoshkov - NLS, Unicode, keyboard I/O
- Francois Gouget - COM, OLE
- Martin Wick - sockets
- Huw Davies - TrueType support, printing
Available components:
- DOS support
- multimedia
- console
- files
- gdi
- loader
- net
Let me know what you would like to work on, if you agree or not agree to own the component, change scope, know good candidates.
I don't want to send bug reports to "black hole", assigning them to a person which is not going to work on them.
Look forward for your responses. Andriy Palamarchuk