[Wine]Does a user need to join wine-devel?

[James Hawkins]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:55:55 +0000, Mike Hearn <mike at navi.cx> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:42:49 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >    I have run across a number of bugs with programs under Wine. I am a
> > user and not a develope so to do my part I've been trying to be a
> > faithful reporter and enter bugs I find in WineHQ's Bugzzilla and then
> > wait for some sort of interaction from Wine developers. This works for
> > Gentoo bugs, Ardour bugs, Alsa bugs, Xine bugs, etc., where I seem to
> > get a response from a developer (in most cases) within about a day. So
> > far I've had no interaction from Wine developers for anything I've
> > entered. I do get a faithful response from Tony (I think) when I add a
> > new application to the database and I am appreciative of that.
> > (Actually I'm quite appreciative of Wine too, but it's just not as
> > useful to me as I wished it would be.)
> 
> Yeah. The Wine community doesn't use Bugzilla much. IMHO it's not really
> suited to this type of project.
> 
> >    Is this Bugzilla method the right way to move forward on getting
> > things I would like to have fixed addressed? Or is there an
> > expectation that I also have to join another list, like wine-devel, to
> > get some attention for these issues?
> 
> Posting to wine-devel will definitely help. We don't bite ;)
> 
> However, bear in mind simply listing bugs doesn't do much. We are quite
> capable of finding bugs in Wine ourselves, the main issue is who will fix
> them? Generally if you can show that a bug is caused by a regression and
> that it's caused by such-and-such a patch the developer of that patch will
> sit up and take notice, and try and fix it. Otherwise you're reliant on
> whoever happens to be around and have some spare time at that moment.
> 
> >    I found yet another example of an app that works in old wine
> > versions and is broken in new wine versions yesterday. I'd be quite
> > willing to trace down where it failed if that would lead to some
> > attention to fix it from someone with the talents, but with no
> > attention it starts to seem a bit pointless to document this stuff.
> 
> Posting regressions to wine-devel is definitely a good idea. Generally the
> more recent the patch which caused the regression the more likely it is to
> be fixed.
> 
> thanks -mike
> 
> 
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> >    I found yet another example of an app that works in old wine
> > versions and is broken in new wine versions yesterday. 

What is the app, and with what version of wine does it run successfully?

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James Hawkins