--- Steven Edwards winehacker@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
On 9/6/05, Francois Gouget fgouget@free.fr wrote:
I'll grant you that we could possibly setup a TinderBox type of system but I feel that would be very overkill right now and even TinderBox can only detect problems after patches get committed.
I don't know if everyone follows wine-cvs everyday and examines every patch that goes through but we could suggest in our documentation that CC's of patches are sent to certain developers along with wine-patches. Basically the model would stay the same as it is now except we would be laying the ground work for the move to a maintainer model. If someone wants to be a maintainer then they would add themselves to the list and would agree to review patches people to send them.
If I was going to to do some DirectX hacking I would be more inclined to send my patch to Oliver first rather than sending it to Julliard because 1) I know Oliver is the defacto maintainer right now and 2) If he has uncommitted patches in his tree then my changes could result in conflict or duplication of work.
I know it has to be frustrating for new developers that join the project don't know who works on what. They spend X amount of time working on something only to see it be rejected or to be told "You did this wrong". Sure they should have asked on wine-devel but maybe if we had a list of people that were the point of contact for certain modules (And clearly document the submission process) it would encourage them to ask more questions directly.
If you send the patches in to wine-patches then I will help you get the patches applied, that may mean that they don't get committed initially and I have to work with you to get the patches to a good level of completeness. I initially had a lot of patched declined, hell it was annoying, and my work would have made it into winecvs a lot faster if they had been committed earlier, but I think breaking patches down into small, defined manageable chunks is far more important in the long run, especially if it causes regression.
Anyhow, I'm sure that all patches are very much appreciated by everyone, anyone who has any difficulty getting any patches committed should just ask for some help on wine-devel and I'm sure someone will be willing to help them out (If not just Email me and I'll give you a hand!).
Roles seem to change a lot, so I'm not sure that appointing anyone is a good idea (appart from the default maintainer of for categories of bugs), you can always look at the code or http://www.winehq.org/site/status and find whoever has submited the recient changes, it may be initially daunting but I'm sure everyone's glad someone lends a hand.
Oliver.
Thanks Steven
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