On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Igor Izyumin wrote:
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 09:06 am, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
On September 11, 2002 09:49 am, Andriy Palamarchuk wrote:
Completely agree - the advocacy of the project is very needed. We should target not only Linux developers, but also Windows developers.
In fact, I think it's the Windows users that we need to worry about since: (1) 90% of Wine develeopment is done in Win32, and (2) they are the most likely to need Wine.
Is there a good HOWTO or FAQ about how to add functionality to Wine / how everything fits together? Does one need to be an experienced programmer to add stuff to Wine/fix bugs, or can a relative beginner do it? Where does one start?
One good place to start is over there: http://www.winehq.com/about/index.php?contrib
This lists items that you can help Wine with. For the development side it references 3 Bugzilla tasklists and in particular the Tasklets one which lists things that should be easy to get into for someone new to Wine.
So whether you need to be an experienced programmer to add stuff to Wine really depends on the problem you want to tackle. But you can contribute to Wine in very meaningful ways even if you are not an experienced programmer, or not a programmer at all. One of the things I'm doing is updating this page to provide better descriptions of these other tasks.
I think there should be a webpage answering at least some of these questions, _directly_.
There is: the above web page. Unfortunately it is really buried and non-obvious to find. Does anyone feel like reorganizing the web site so that this page is more prominent? I feel very much like it but I'm not familiar with PHP and don't have enough free time to start a big reorganization.
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