On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:24:53 +0200, Jeroen Janssen wrote:
I'm wondering when is a patch 'good enough' to be included? (both from an 'enduser', an author's point of view and from Alexandre's view (who eventually commits the patch)?
Well, it really depends on the individual patch. Obviously the code itself has to be visibly free of bugs, that is mostly what peer review is about but equally a patch can be rejected if the technique it uses is too hacky, or the patch has some other problems.
Is there an official way to track that a patch submitted to wine-patches has been comitted? Also can I somehow find out which (interesting) patches have not been comitted yet?
Unfortunately there is no way to track this in an automated fashion. It has been talked about but nobody created a system yet. We just watch wine-cvs and see when it's been checked in.
Also, I noticed there is currently only one person with CVS write permissions for Wine? Has this always been the case? --- Jeroen
Yes. Before we had CVS it was like the kernel, people just mailed Alexandre patches and didn't know if they'd been merged until the next release (as far as I know, but that was long before my time, back then I thought Win98 was the bees knees ;)