Andreas Mohr wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:52:45PM -0600, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
Dr J A Gow wrote:
How to capture these 'lost' contributions is a difficult issue. Maybe a centralized repository for patches could be maintained separate from the main Wine tree and with a very loose method of acceptance (maybe just ensure that it is clearly indicated what the patch is for and what version it can be applied to). This way it would be very easy for a contributor to place a patch somewhere where it is easily accessed by the community. A developer with more time who is interested in it may pick it up and clean it up for inclusion in the tree, but at least the patch is available for others to use, saving re-invention of the wheel.
Why reinvent the wheel? If such people can spend their time chasing down the problem and developing a fix for it, they sure can open a bug in bugzilla, describe theproblem and attach a patch they made. How more simple can it be?
No patches lost, no extra places to look for. And all the information describing the problem. Everything in one place.
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."
As alternative to bugzilla we have this section in the wiki.
http://wiki.winehq.org/InterestingPatches
This has several hac^H^H^Hpatches that I found uesfull and have used over time. I particularly like the "Mouse Hack" patch http://wiki.winehq.org/PatchMouseHack
The thing is that if a patch is useful it will have a life of its own and I am glad that I have an easy way of getting to them when I want to try them.
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.).
Yes please..
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Tony Lambregts