On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 16:20 +0100, David Gümbel wrote:
- At the option of the respective software vendor whose product we'll be
analyzing for WINE compatibility, Application Database Entries will be maintained by us once a software product has been analyzed for its compatibility with WINE.
Excellent. AppDB seems to be almost ready, and some dedicated developer maintainers would be an amazing thing.
- Reports of successful porting or migration projects will be given back to
the community as success stories. My colleage is already working on merging some success stories supplied by third parties (see [6]).
- WRS has offered to help out in hosting the WINE developers conference
Wineconf in 2005 in the Stuttgart area[7].
I'd love to head out to Stuttgart if someone would be willing to fly me there. As it stands I can only really afford to go on long roadtrips about the United States. Either way, I'm probably not that important.
If there are any questions open, please feel free to ask.
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[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/wine-devel%40winehq.org/msg11549.html [2] WINEprobe means be something like WINEtasting in english an maybe "degustation de WINE" in french.
I'm going to echo the sentiment that WINEprobe is a horrible name in English. Frankly, when I think of probes I think of aliens or doctors doing nasty experiments on my body parts. At best, I think of a probing attack with troops on a battlefield.
A better name would be the alluded to WINEtasting mentioned here. It may be a tad cliche, but at least it doesn't drum up horrible images.
However, I think we have an opportunity to make a really crafty and invigorating name here. My personal favorite would be to combine the concept of a "port" for software with the class of dessert wine known as "port." It would be a really delicious pun, and it would drum up the right images.
So, yes, I support the PortWINE initiative. :)
Thanks, Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org