On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:09 AM, nnsaturn_systems@yahoo.com wrote:
Spotted on Reddit's frontpage
wine-patches the black hole of code?
http://kazade.livejournal.com/2451.html
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I used to think it was difficult to get a patch into Wine - until I started sending patches to some other open source projects.
It never took more than 2 days for a Wine patch I sent it to get accepted. By comparison, I submitted a modest OpenJDK patch (http://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100041) around May 2008, I've had to completely rewrite it once, it's on the 5th revision (excluding 2 more revisions from before their bugzilla was opened), and it's still not accepted. IRC is a dream compared to weeks/months of waiting for your patch sponsor to reply on bugzilla.
Think Wine doesn't accept patches easily, and it's hard to get feedback? Think again.
Damjan Jovanovic