Dear Wine developers,
I am excited to announce that I have discovered a novel and accurate method to calculate a Wine developer's Julliard Rank! As we all know, the Julliard Rank is a measure of how much trust Wine's chief maintainer Alexandre Julliard has in a person, and consequently how easily their patches are accepted.[1] What no one seems to have realized until now is that a person's Julliard Rank has a perfect linear correlation with the number of outstanding bisected regressions caused by that person!
Alexandre himself is of course at the top with 21 outstanding regressions, followed of course by Zeb with 15. Henri and Jacek are not far behind with 11 each, Rémi and Zhiyi are somewhat lower with 6 each, and predictably I myself don't even make the cut. That means that 49% of the 142 regressions are held by the top 14% of the 44 people on the list.[2]
It is intolerable that so many regressions are concentrated in the hands of so few. There is only one rational course of action: We must rise up and act together to take the regressions that belong to those at the top away from them. When their source of power is gone, the vinous elite will be no different from τῶν πολλῶν. There is unfortunately no alternative but to forcefully abolish the classist system that divides developers into regression-haves and regression-have-nots, but after everyone is made into a regression-have-not, a new era of equality, peace, and alcoholism for all will begin.
Sincerely,
The Central Committee of the Workers' Wine Party (WWP)
[1] https://wiki.winehq.org/Developer_FAQ#I_sent_a_merge_request.2C_but_it_got_i... [2] https://source.winehq.org/regressions
On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 12:00 AM Alex Henrie alexhenrie24@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Wine developers,
I am excited to announce that I have discovered a novel and accurate method to calculate a Wine developer's Julliard Rank! As we all know, the Julliard Rank is a measure of how much trust Wine's chief maintainer Alexandre Julliard has in a person, and consequently how easily their patches are accepted.[1] What no one seems to have realized until now is that a person's Julliard Rank has a perfect linear correlation with the number of outstanding bisected regressions caused by that person!
Alexandre himself is of course at the top with 21 outstanding regressions, followed of course by Zeb with 15. Henri and Jacek are not far behind with 11 each, Rémi and Zhiyi are somewhat lower with 6 each, and predictably I myself don't even make the cut. That means that 49% of the 142 regressions are held by the top 14% of the 44 people on the list.[2]
It is intolerable that so many regressions are concentrated in the hands of so few. There is only one rational course of action: We must rise up and act together to take the regressions that belong to those at the top away from them. When their source of power is gone, the vinous elite will be no different from τῶν πολλῶν. There is unfortunately no alternative but to forcefully abolish the classist system that divides developers into regression-haves and regression-have-nots, but after everyone is made into a regression-have-not, a new era of equality, peace, and alcoholism for all will begin.
Sincerely,
The Central Committee of the Workers' Wine Party (WWP)
[1] https://wiki.winehq.org/Developer_FAQ#I_sent_a_merge_request.2C_but_it_got_i... [2] https://source.winehq.org/regressions
In case anyone didn't get it, the above was an April Fool's joke. Like a consummate politician, I started by conflating correlation and causation, quoted some statistics out of context, and concluded that no-compromise extremism is the only answer. The email as a whole was intentionally incoherent nonsense.
In fact, the primary reason why six people are responsible for half of the outstanding bisected regressions is not because they are inflating their Julliard Ranks but rather that those six people have been taking on hard refactoring tasks, and they deserve our thanks. There is, however, a grain of truth here: There are a lot of regressions right now, and it's going to take a group effort to resolve them.
-Alex
Hi Alex,
It was fairly obvious to me, but I still laughed, thanks for this!
Awesome stuff :)
On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 3:15 AM Gabriel Ivăncescu gabrielopcode@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Alex,
It was fairly obvious to me, but I still laughed, thanks for this!
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