Hi Alexandros,
On 12/10/21 20:56, Alexandros Frantzis wrote:
In the mailing list discussions earlier this year it was recommended that we go through wine-staging as a stepping stone towards upstream.
Do you recall which part of the prior discussion made such an impression? Staging used to be a testing ground for some patches, yes, but as far as I know no patchset was ever easier to get accepted upstream because of its presence in Staging. Nor that ever was a requirement for any patches to get upstream. So in this regard it would be probably more interesting to get some opinion if the direction the things are being implemented now is acceptable for upstream and Staging probably can't help with that.
I am not talking for the primary Staging maintainers now and they may decide differently, but I personally doubt having it Staging is feasible. It is a huge thing (I doubt there is a precedent of similarly sized and scoped patchset in Staging) and I doubt any of Staging maintainers is ready to routinely rebase it. Additionally, Wine is currently in process of huge display driver interfacing redesign, which means the patchset will be disabled most of the time.
On a separate note it is not obvious how the presence of the driver in Staging is universally useful. It can't yet be enabled by default apparently. So probably it will be still tested only by people who want to do it specifically but then they already can do that easily by dropping in the external driver.