newbie wine developer question

[Dan Kegel]

Zimler Attila wrote:
> 2) I would like to fix some fixme (which I can reproduce), but I don't 
> understand a lot of thins. (I'm new to wine, but not new to C). Could 
> somebody help me to start involved in the development process?

The best way to get started is:
1. pick some repeatable bug
2. write a small C program that detects the bug
3. turn the C program into a standard wine testcase (pretty easy)
4. verify that the testcase passes on real windows and fails on Wine
5. submit the testcase as a patch

Optionally, you can go on:
6. fix the bug, and verify that the test passes
7. submit the fix as a patch

For instance, I noticed last year that the named pipe win32
api calls were busted, so I wrote a test case and submitted
it.  Even though I didn't go on to fix the bug, my work was
appreciated, and it helped the guy who did actually fix the
bug.

- Dan