<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Dan Hipschman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dsh@linux.ucla.edu">dsh@linux.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 06:30:17PM -0600, Erich Hoover wrote:<br>
> Honestly, I believe that this problem illustrates the need for these kind of<br>
> bugs - if I had found a bug for WinHttp in bugzilla assigned to Zac then I<br>
> could easily contact him. I do not have time to monitor wine-devel in order<br>
> keep track of what everyone is working on so that I can keep from stepping<br>
> on people's toes. Wine is not my full time job, and I think it is<br>
> unreasonable to expect people to keep track of this kind of off-the-tree<br>
> activity without some sort of database like bugzilla to keep track of who is<br>
> doing what. As I'm sure other people do, I only have time to do work on<br>
> Wine when I'm on my vacation.<br>
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</div>I agree with others in that bugs saying such and such DLL need to be<br>
implemented are redundant. Wine development is very app-driven in that<br>
we focus on fixing particular apps instead of willy-nilly deciding to<br>
work on DLL X today. It gives priority to bugs which will help the most<br>
people (depending on the popularity of the app), and makes it easier to<br>
chart progess (M apps run well is a better metric than N DLLs are<br>
implemented).<br>
</blockquote><div>I agree that the title of the bug indicated as such, I was not aware that being generic like this was against some sort of unwritten policy. However, the comment specifically targeted the Red Alert 3 Beta as much as possible, since it failed immediately after WinHttpOpen.<br>
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There are already some bugs in the tracker for winhttp (eg, 14381). To<br>
help out the most, please add bugs for the other apps you've mentioned<br>
that fail to run (assuming they aren't already in bugzilla, I didn't<br>
check). You could also write test cases for winhttp. This is a good<br>
way to get people started on implementing it. To see who is currently<br>
active in a particular area, you can search the mailing lists, or look<br>
at the git logs for the files, or check if there's a recent copyright on<br>
any of them. Bugs often don't get assigned to anybody. Wine is<br>
developed by a lot of otherwise unrelated people, so bugs usually just<br>
get fixed by whoever happens to be interested in them.<br>
</blockquote></div>The copyright on the winhttp "main.c" is in 2007 and is just stubs, otherwise i would have more actively checked the mailing lists. The other bugs in bugzilla did not appear to necessarilly be relevant, so I made a new one. Since I'm now aware that there's someone already interested in WinHttp, I plan on doing what I can to help them get things working for RA3 so it will work by the time it comes out.<br>
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