Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

[Jeff Latimer]

Andreas Mohr wrote:

>>Why reinvent the wheel? If such people can spend their time chasing down the problem
>>and developing a fix for it, they sure can open a bug in bugzilla, describe theproblem
>>and attach a patch they made. How more simple can it be?
>>
>>No patches lost, no extra places to look for. And all the information describing the
>>problem. Everything in one place.
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>
>And exactly this information should probably be stated in the wine-patches
>subscription welcome mail.
>
>"If for some reason the Wine patches you submit fail to get applied,
>then we'd appreciate you taking the effort of submitting your current patch
>as a new item at bugzilla to help us track your work properly until it's
>fully applied."
>
>  
>
The next question is how long does someone wait till resorting to 
Bugzilla.  Depending on the criteria it could generate a fair bit of 
noise in the database with a lot of patches that would normally be 
accepted after a couple of goes.  Who is responsible for clearing the 
bug report after acceptance?   Unless you are actually actively pushing 
the patch for acceptance, the submitter of a patch to Bugzilla would 
probably be unaware that it had been accepted.

Jeff Latimer