Wow guys, I think everyone needs to turn it down a notch. I realize that everyone is frustrated with the decreasing relevance of Wine in the SteamOS era, but we are still members of a very important and interesting project that impacts a lot of users.
Nikolay is understandably upset that he feels that staging patches are not getting sent upstream fast enough, some of that is our fault (we’re volunteer, and I know I've been busy with work or out of town a lot lately) and some of that is the submission process (limit on number of "in flight" patches, for example). There are a variety of ways that we can resolve this kind of problem (merge windows, patch sign-offs, etc.) without upsetting each other. It’s also important to mention that a lot of our time gets spent in rebasing patches; the CSMT patches in particular take up a lot of Sebastian’s time.
Sebastian and Dmitry are clearly upset that Dmitry's work on the patch that started this thread was not mentioned in the upstreaming email. This kind of issue is always a hard needle to thread, it’s clearly important to get patches out to the community quickly but it’s also important to be respectful of all the sources of feedback on patches. I think we can all agree that the system Wine currently has in place for submitting, accepting, and commenting on patches isn't working for the community. Since that system results in frustration on both sides of the submission process, I think we should seriously consider discussing revisions to the system at this year’s WineConf.
I’ve been out of town for a while, so I’m not actually aware of what issues are concerning Henri. However, antagonizing each other is clearly not going to solve issues either way - we need to come together and discuss these things in the calmest manner we can manage so that everyone gets a chance to have their opinions heard and considered.
I realize that this email is getting a little long, but I think that it’s important to mention that wine-staging is not just a volunteer effort - we also have no financial interest in the project. We do not ask users for money, we have no advertising, and we pay for our server space and Ubuntu build time out of our own pockets. We have absolutely no incentive to do this except for the good of the Wine project by preparing patches for inclusion (both from newer contributors and for those with lower AJ ranks such as myself).
Best, Erich