coordinating efforts wrt rejected patches

[Scott Ritchie]

Vincent Povirk wrote:
> Some people have expressed interest recently in finding patches that
> have been sent to wine-patches and have not yet been accepted into
> winehq. The hope is that we can put some effort into getting feedback
> to the authors of recent ones, and maybe the old abandoned patches
> will catch the interest of some wandering developers.
> 
> Sifting them out from the wine-patches archives is unfortunately not
> trivial. I'm way too lazy to try to create a bot for this, but I
> figure there may be enough interest to do it manually, going through
> the wine-patches messages and searching for similarly-named messages
> in wine-patches and wine-cvs. We just need to make sure we don't
> duplicate effort. If people end up using this information effectively,
> maybe someone will write a bot. If not, well, then it's good no one
> wasted time on it.

Fear not, Luke and I are working on a bot for this.  The goal is to
integrate it into a revived patchwatcher.

> 
> To this end, I have created this wiki page:
> http://wiki.winehq.org/RejectedPatches
> 
> I've gone through the submissions to wine-patches over one day and
> added the rejected entries to that page, sorted based on whether
> there's been a response.
> 
> Anyone is welcome to use/update this information as they see fit and
> to expand the range of checked messages (but not into the future, at
> least until we get another round of commits).
> 

Good stuff!

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie