On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:55:55 +0000, Mike Hearn <mike@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:42:49 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > I have run across a number of bugs with programs under Wine. I am a > > user and not a develope so to do my part I've been trying to be a > > faithful reporter and enter bugs I find in WineHQ's Bugzzilla and then > > wait for some sort of interaction from Wine developers. This works for > > Gentoo bugs, Ardour bugs, Alsa bugs, Xine bugs, etc., where I seem to > > get a response from a developer (in most cases) within about a day. So > > far I've had no interaction from Wine developers for anything I've > > entered. I do get a faithful response from Tony (I think) when I add a > > new application to the database and I am appreciative of that. > > (Actually I'm quite appreciative of Wine too, but it's just not as > > useful to me as I wished it would be.) > > Yeah. The Wine community doesn't use Bugzilla much. IMHO it's not really > suited to this type of project. > > > Is this Bugzilla method the right way to move forward on getting > > things I would like to have fixed addressed? Or is there an > > expectation that I also have to join another list, like wine-devel, to > > get some attention for these issues? > > Posting to wine-devel will definitely help. We don't bite ;) > > However, bear in mind simply listing bugs doesn't do much. We are quite > capable of finding bugs in Wine ourselves, the main issue is who will fix > them? Generally if you can show that a bug is caused by a regression and > that it's caused by such-and-such a patch the developer of that patch will > sit up and take notice, and try and fix it. Otherwise you're reliant on > whoever happens to be around and have some spare time at that moment. > > > I found yet another example of an app that works in old wine > > versions and is broken in new wine versions yesterday. I'd be quite > > willing to trace down where it failed if that would lead to some > > attention to fix it from someone with the talents, but with no > > attention it starts to seem a bit pointless to document this stuff. > > Posting regressions to wine-devel is definitely a good idea. Generally the > more recent the patch which caused the regression the more likely it is to > be fixed. > > thanks -mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > > I found yet another example of an app that works in old wine > > versions and is broken in new wine versions yesterday. What is the app, and with what version of wine does it run successfully? -- James Hawkins _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
