Wine staging patches submission

[Zebediah Figura]

I guess our WineConf talk has been coöpted...

On 05/26/2018 12:39 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
 > Do you realize that you've essentially killed the project?

We haven't killed wine staging, nor do we intend for wine-staging to 
die. What we would like to do is move staging away from being a fork of 
the WineHQ project and towards a, well, staging branch, the way that 
most people seem to envision it. Sebastian and Michael (and you) may 
never have said or considered outright that Staging was a fork, but it 
has been quite effectively treated that way. There are plenty of 
good-quality patches there, especially yours, that have simply never 
been submitted upstream for reasons that are less than sanguine.

I understand that you've been frustrated with WineHQ's review process. 
I've been frustrated with it myself. I personally think there is value 
in having a place where new developers can get acquainted with Wine in a 
more friendly and helpful environment. To what degree I can help provide 
that environment is less than clear, of course, but regardless I think 
Staging should continue on to fill this void. However, I think that 
trying to achieve this by distancing Staging from the rest of the 
project is more detrimental than helpful to its overall goal.

As Rosanne says, getting rid of the Staging website is the best thing we 
can do to eliminate the idea that Staging is a fork. Therefore this is 
what we're trying to do. Since many patches are picked up from Bugzilla 
to solve bugs, and Bugzilla also has some degree of infrastructure for 
tracking Staging patches, we'd like to merge the staging patch tracker 
there. Similarly we'd like to, as Rosanne says, redirect the 
www.wine-staging.com website to a WineHQ wiki page.

I'm admittedly less than comfortable with the idea of "e-mail Alistair 
or me". I do agree with Pablo that such conversations should be public. 
Perhaps a good solution would be to CC one (or preferably both) of us on 
a bug, with a request to include the patch in Staging and some 
description of what the patch does. Another solution would perhaps be to 
try to use wine-devel for Staging submissions.

ἔρρωσθε,
Zeb