On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 2:42 PM Joshua Ashton joshua@froggi.es wrote:
I think WineConf could benefit from more talks that are discussing not "what was achieved"/news but rather how and in great depth.
I would absolutely love to see talks from either you or Gofman, or whoever doing deep dives into whatever crazy shit that I know nothing about, random crazy stuff games do, ancient stuff like dshow, all the weird red-herrings to fixing a bug.
I would also appreciate hearing a talk about how some difficult and inscrutable bug was diagnosed and fixed. Ideally the presenter would start with an old version of Wine and walk the audience through the debugging process step by step. Debugging closed-source applications is difficult for the best of us, and being far from the best myself, I could learn a lot by example. That's the sort of thing that I've gotten out of WineConf in the past by talking with people outside of the presentations, but there's no reason why the knowledge couldn't be shared in a presentation.
-Alex