Governance revisited
Robert Shearman
rob at codeweavers.com
Sun Sep 24 13:27:55 CDT 2006
Jim White wrote:
> The whole "quality" and "hack" language is a red herring. To see that
> it is selective and subjective, just look at the code, try xrender.c for
> example.
>
The difference is that presumably the person who submitted that code
demonstrated that they understood the problem that they were trying to
solve and convinced Alexandre that fixing it without hacks would lead to
other problems or take months to code.
At least one person has mentioned that there is no "right of appeal",
but there is - you can reply to Alexandre's rejection comment by doing
the above.
Another way of demonstrating that you understand the problem is to
demonstrate that you understand the code by submitting patches to it,
fixing smaller and easier to solve bugs.
> Steven cited the business at Wineconf of Alexandre never being "proved
> wrong on a technical matter". Another straw man. The part of
> Alexandre's patch process that is the root of this conflict between Wine
> development-focused developers vs. Wine user-focused developers is that
> which consists of style and aesthetic considerations.
>
> CodeWeavers Wine version is full of patches that Alexandre won't accept
> for WineHQ. Obvious proof that the Alexandre's policy isn't the only
> way to make a Wine that people value. In fact it proves that the
> WineHQ's patch process is not good enough to make Wine that people will
> pay for, while CodeWeavers' is.
>
I'm not sure I understand what point you are trying to make here. We at
CodeWeavers have to retest each hack before each release to make sure
that it still works and whether it is still necessary. We have a set of
applications that we guarantee to support for each release, whereas
there are no such requirements for a WineHQ release. This happens
because we want to reduce the number of conflicts when we merge from
WineHQ, but people probably wouldn't do this in Wine, since we generally
only hear from users of certain applications when the applications don't
work.
--
Rob Shearman
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