Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com writes:
I'm not sure we want to encourage wine-stating from Upstream (I'm not convinced either way), but in any case, the grammar seems wrong to me as a native speaker, how about: "The patch needs more work or wider testing. Please try to get into Wine-Staging."
I'm not going to use such a status, because I don't think getting patches into staging is going to make them more likely to be accepted.
On the contrary, if the iterations of the patch take place somewhere that I don't see, it will make it harder for me to assess the developer's ability (aka AJ rank), which is an essential part of the process. Particularly if you want to move on to more complicated things where I can't check every detail, it's essential to first earn my trust, or the trust of other veteran devs, and this has to happen right here.
I see the value of wine-staging in making patches more readily available to users, and I understand that the process of getting patches committed can be frustrating. But I don't think splitting the developers community is the answer.