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[Maik Wagner]

Hello everyone,

thanks to Jeremy White and Sebastian (who made me aware of this) I have 
received funding to hold a presentation on wine in Berlin.

The conference is called ubucon and is focussed on Ubuntu Linux which 
takes place from 23-25 October in Berlin at the premises of a privately 
owned higher education institution in Friedrichstraße.

There is a quite well-known forum at ubuntuusers.de where I give regular 
support concerning wine. It's mostly helping people getting their games 
to run and Microsoft Office issues also come up frequently.

I post a link to my presentation which will take about one hour. The 
time slot afterwards is still free and I am willing to take this longer 
if the room is still free and people are interested

http://ubucon.de/2015/programm#wine

I have attached the slides which I have developed so far and I can 
certainly change the master slides to match a more wine-centric 
"corporate identity" if there is any.

I will be leaving for Berlin next Friday and will be available during 
the whole conference if people are interested in talking to me. You can 
also ask me about "Crossover" as I am regularly submitting Beta-reports 
and made it to "Mythical" ranking. I am also maintaining some 
applications in AppDB (Fifa 2005 Demo, Crazy Taxi Demo, Nerf Arena Blast 
and Fotostation Pro)

I will be bringing my Slackware 14.1 laptop as wine always compiles fine 
on this machine. It is a fairly old laptop though and still on 32-bits 
and a fairly broken graphics stack but I think it should be alright to 
show people that there is a development version around. I will also test 
and present some demos and show people how to file reports in AppDB.

I will be reporting back on how the presentation went on this 
mailing-list as this is part of the sponsorship deal. Again, thanks to 
everyone who supported this.

Please feel free to write to me and share some ideas, comments etc.

Best regards,

Maik Wagner

[André Hentschel]

Am 14.10.2015 um 09:16 schrieb Maik Wagner:
> Hello everyone,
>
> thanks to Jeremy White and Sebastian (who made me aware of this) I have received funding to hold a presentation on wine in Berlin.
>
> The conference is called ubucon and is focussed on Ubuntu Linux which takes place from 23-25 October in Berlin at the premises of a privately owned higher education institution in Friedrichstraße.
>
> There is a quite well-known forum at ubuntuusers.de where I give regular support concerning wine. It's mostly helping people getting their games to run and Microsoft Office issues also come up frequently.
>
> I post a link to my presentation which will take about one hour. The time slot afterwards is still free and I am willing to take this longer if the room is still free and people are interested
>
> http://ubucon.de/2015/programm#wine
>
> I have attached the slides which I have developed so far and I can certainly change the master slides to match a more wine-centric "corporate identity" if there is any.
>
> I will be leaving for Berlin next Friday and will be available during the whole conference if people are interested in talking to me. You can also ask me about "Crossover" as I am regularly submitting Beta-reports and made it to "Mythical" ranking. I am also maintaining some applications in AppDB (Fifa 2005 Demo, Crazy Taxi Demo, Nerf Arena Blast and Fotostation Pro)
>
> I will be bringing my Slackware 14.1 laptop as wine always compiles fine on this machine. It is a fairly old laptop though and still on 32-bits and a fairly broken graphics stack but I think it should be alright to show people that there is a development version around. I will also test and present some demos and show people how to file reports in AppDB.
>
> I will be reporting back on how the presentation went on this mailing-list as this is part of the sponsorship deal. Again, thanks to everyone who supported this.
>
> Please feel free to write to me and share some ideas, comments etc.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Maik Wagner

Cool, thx for doing this!
I was reading through your slides and figured that it sounds like the development version gets replaced by staging, but that's not true.
"Entwicklerversion erschien alle zwei Wochen – jetzt wine-staging"
The development version will still be released biweekly and staging shortly after

[Maik Wagner]

Hello Andre,

Am 14.10.2015 um 17:26 schrieb André Hentschel:
> Cool, thx for doing this! I was reading through your slides and 
> figured that it sounds like the development version gets replaced by 
> staging, but that's not true. "Entwicklerversion erschien alle zwei 
> Wochen – jetzt wine-staging" The development version will still be 
> released biweekly and staging shortly after

yes, I forgot to correct this. Sebastian informed me on IRC yesterday 
what the time-based releases are about. Thanks for pointing this out.

Just let me get this right so that I don't give out false information:
- Development version (1.7.x) comes out every two weeks.
- Patches are staged, at least I have seen that you have a new field in 
Bugzilla
- 1.8 will be a time-based release with code freeze in fall

I have attached updated slides. The brand name "CrossOver" was also not 
spelt correctly before.

Regards,

Maik

[André Hentschel]

Am 14.10.2015 um 18:18 schrieb Maik Wagner:
> Hello Andre,
>
> Am 14.10.2015 um 17:26 schrieb André Hentschel:
> > Cool, thx for doing this! I was reading through your slides and figured that it sounds like the development version gets replaced by staging, but that's not true. "Entwicklerversion erschien alle zwei Wochen – jetzt wine-staging" The development version will still be released biweekly and staging shortly after
>
> yes, I forgot to correct this. Sebastian informed me on IRC yesterday what the time-based releases are about. Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> Just let me get this right so that I don't give out false information:
> - Development version (1.7.x) comes out every two weeks.
> - Patches are staged, at least I have seen that you have a new field in Bugzilla

Well we have stable, development and staging. Staging contains experimental patches which are not yet ready for upstream which is developed in the development branch.
That way you end up with 1.8.x (at some point in fall, right), 1.7.x and 1.7.x-staging