Hi, Well, I'm a general lurker and small contributer in my own way. I'm looking at one bug and have requested help from wine-devel in the past. So, in a nutshell, I consider myself an outsider of the general crew.
Therefore, I'm going to be a bit more forthright about my response to this post.
The Wine developers know nothing about me and my experience. I have attempted to demonstrate that, although I lack much time, I am prepared to put some effort into helping where I can in my small way. There are many like me. In have tried to be cordial and respectful on wine-devel. In return I have had nothing but courtesy, helpful assistance and general goodwill in answer.
There is a right way of entering into these things and a wrong way. The Wine crew, as far as I know, know nothing of this supposed Apple developer. He has not demonstrated his experience or trustworthyness or knowledge of the Wine product to any level. Jeremy expects that as a stranger the Wine team should take his word at face value that he submitted a needed fix and that it sufficiently corrected the problem without doing even the *minimum* of effort to convince them. I have read the bug issue in question, and from the outset, he was disrespectful and downright combative and dismissive of all of the Wine teams procedures. Despite that, the responses on the bug tracker from the Wine team where measured and non-escalatory. A slightly different approach would have yielded a substantially different result. A humble request for assistance in knowing the proper channel and aid in getting the change properly submitted would, I feel, have had a far greater acceptance of what he was after.
I agree that sometimes the responses on the bug tracker can be curt to the point of rudeness, but mostly that is down to the impersonal nature of the medium.
Jeremy obviously thought that the change was important enough that he should take the time to submit it in the first place. A little bit of natural humility and expressing a more willing sentiment would have gone a long way to helping his cause.
Cheers, Ralph