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A comment on Wine Staging.

Re:Wine Staging by ianlevesque on Tuesday September 15, 2015 @07:50PM (#10223847)
Interesting project, it's almost like they searched through the WineHQ bug tracker for unmerged fixes and made a huge branch with all of them. There are certainly a lot of fixes that never make it to mainline Wine. The handful I've been watching have gone nearly 5 years without any meaningful progress past the initial patch. Occasionally someone will comment that the issue still affects them. I'm not sure what the solution is, it's an unpaid project.
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Re:Wine Staging by ZenoArrow on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @06:14AM (#10225615)
> "There are certainly a lot of fixes that never make it to mainline Wine."

Out of interest, why is that?

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Re:Wine Staging by IshKebab on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @08:12AM (#10225975)
Lack of manpower. Improving, merging and testing a fix isn't zero-effort.
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Re:Wine Staging by stuaxo on Thursday September 17, 2015 @12:41AM (#10231608)
Alexandre Juliarde keeps a very high quality threshold for patches, which makes sense as it's such a complicated project.

This can make the conversations quite interesting from the outside if you're into this sort of thing.

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