[Bug 14810] WinHttp needs to be implemented

[Dan Hipschman]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 06:30:17PM -0600, Erich Hoover wrote:
> Honestly, I believe that this problem illustrates the need for these kind of
> bugs - if I had found a bug for WinHttp in bugzilla assigned to Zac then I
> could easily contact him.  I do not have time to monitor wine-devel in order
> keep track of what everyone is working on so that I can keep from stepping
> on people's toes.  Wine is not my full time job, and I think it is
> unreasonable to expect people to keep track of this kind of off-the-tree
> activity without some sort of database like bugzilla to keep track of who is
> doing what.  As I'm sure other people do, I only have time to do work on
> Wine when I'm on my vacation.

I agree with others in that bugs saying such and such DLL need to be
implemented are redundant.  Wine development is very app-driven in that
we focus on fixing particular apps instead of willy-nilly deciding to
work on DLL X today.  It gives priority to bugs which will help the most
people (depending on the popularity of the app), and makes it easier to
chart progess (M apps run well is a better metric than N DLLs are
implemented).

There are already some bugs in the tracker for winhttp (eg, 14381).  To
help out the most, please add bugs for the other apps you've mentioned
that fail to run (assuming they aren't already in bugzilla, I didn't
check).  You could also write test cases for winhttp.  This is a good
way to get people started on implementing it.  To see who is currently
active in a particular area, you can search the mailing lists, or look
at the git logs for the files, or check if there's a recent copyright on
any of them.  Bugs often don't get assigned to anybody.  Wine is
developed by a lot of otherwise unrelated people, so bugs usually just
get fixed by whoever happens to be interested in them.