On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Keith Matthews wrote: [...]
Stressing the number of calls in the MS API is another important point to make, thanks to Andreas for providing an updated figure.
For more API stats you can check out the following page (and disclaimer):
http://fgouget.free.fr/wine/winapi_stats-en.shtml
While I'm writing I will just mention some other links relevant to the 'Wine perception' aspect:
* Contributing to Wine Trying to present ways to get started helping Wine. More work is needed on this section and it needs to be made much more visible. http://www.winehq.com/about/index.php?contrib
* Why Wine is so important Many people have a primitive 'say no to Windows software' attitude because they do not understand why Wine is important. http://www.winehq.com/about/index.php?why
* Debunking Wine Myths These myths are quite common and detract to Wine's image http://www.winehq.com/about/index.php?myths
Here's my thoughts on getting more developpers: * I think step one is fixing Wine's perception issues by improving the Web site to make the above more visible, add screenshots and make it easier to navigate. * Step two is to add more resources geared towards new developpers to make it easier for them to get started (e.g. taslets bug list, finish the conformance testing guide, update the developer's guide, etc.). * Step three is to be more outgoing. Do a better job at describing the tasks that need to be done for instance. Let people know that we need help, that with done much with less than one tenth the number of developpers that the Linux kernel has. Someone suggested making Wine presentations at local LUGs. I think that's a goog idea too.
I have done some work on the above items (all committed) but I'm not a technical writer so it takes me a lot of time to write documentation and I'm rarely happy with the result. And free time is in very short supply currently. Plus I'm not familiar with PHP which would be required for some of the Web site changes (again a time issue). So please, if anyone feels like updating the web site or writing documentation, go ahead. Wine needs you!
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Francois Gouget