Spotted on Reddit's frontpage [ wine-patches the black hole of code? ]

[Damjan Jovanovic]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:09 AM, nn<saturn_systems at yahoo.com> wrote:
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I used to think it was difficult to get a patch into Wine - until I
started sending patches to some other open source projects.

It never took more than 2 days for a Wine patch I sent it to get
accepted. By comparison, I submitted a modest OpenJDK patch
(http://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100041) around May 2008,
I've had to completely rewrite it once, it's on the 5th revision
(excluding 2 more revisions from before their bugzilla was opened),
and it's still not accepted. IRC is a dream compared to weeks/months
of waiting for your patch sponsor to reply on bugzilla.

Think Wine doesn't accept patches easily, and it's hard to get
feedback? Think again.

Damjan Jovanovic