Wine patch code review or what to do if patches get stuck?

Reece Dunn msclrhd at googlemail.com
Tue Apr 21 10:28:04 CDT 2009


2009/4/21 Paul Vriens <paul.vriens.wine at gmail.com>:
> Reece Dunn wrote:
>>
>> 2009/4/21 Jeremy White <jwhite at winehq.org>:
>>>>
>>>> Sometimes "no feedback" means that you just dont know - is there
>>>> something wrong? Or maybe your patch wos not understood correctly? Or
>>>> there are doubts that what you did is right? Or what? It would be
>>>> better to have feedback like "are you serious?" than nothing at all :)
>>>
>>> I've tried to update the 'why was my patch ignored' section in the Wiki:
>>>
>>>  http://wiki.winehq.org/DeveloperFaq#head-1e5a50563dbdb221702cbde246b23f5de08a75e9
>>> to reflect what I understand from Alexandre.
>>>
>>> Not sure if any of it applies in your case, but I thought it'd be good
>>> to have it in the mailing list archives.
>>
>> I found http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Coding_Hints:Part_1 that
>> may be useful as a checklist.
>>
>> I was trying to find the interview with Alexandre where he lists 10
>> things that cause a patch to be rejected (e.g. using C++ comments).
>> Does anyone know the link for this?
>>
>> - Reece
>>
>>
> Do you mean:
>
> http://winehq.org/wwn/353#News:%20WineConf%202008
>
> (It's not 10 reasons though).

Yes, that's what I meant.

- Reece



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