Governance revisited (Wineconf report)

[Kai Blin]

On Saturday 23 September 2006 10:32, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> Frankly, all we really need is for Alexandre to write a 10-second reply
> to wine-devel for each patch he rejects.

On WineConf, we decided against this. That would still slow down the overall 
patch submission speed. Consider you have a patch that's just fine, but 
before you sent that, I sent in ten patches with C++ style comments. 
Alexandre would now have to reply to ten patches with "No C++ style comments" 
before processing your patch. Everybody reading wine-patches could point out 
what was wrong with my patches.

Now, we agreed to try something different, two things actually. The first 
thing is the "ambassador" thing Steve and a couple of other people mentioned 
before. New contributors would be contacted by someone who would explain the 
way wine works to them. Secondly, we wanted to make a standard practice of 
what Mike's been doing for MSI patches. A developer proficient in a certain 
area of wine will reply to all the patches for his area, do a review and also 
makes sure they don't disappear into the void.

This should solve most of the problems people (including myself) were having 
when getting started with wine development.

Cheers,
Kai

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