[ros-dev] Wine syncing process

[Kamil Hornícek]

Hi,
I like the idea Aleksey proposed and I'd also like to continue my directx 
syncing efforts (wined3d, d3dx, dinput, dsound etc.), so
once the wine sync team is established just sign me in and let me know who's 
the boss.

Regards,
Kamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aleksey Bragin" <aleksey at reactos.org>
To: "ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev at reactos.org>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 12:18 PM
Subject: [ros-dev] Wine syncing process


> Hello,
> I'd like to improve the existing situation we have with Wine syncing.
>
> Right now, we have a group of people, occasionally doing Wine syncs,
> and that group of people included me some time ago too. However, date
> was never really specified, and syncing happens "when someone wants
> to sync", "before releasing", or when something is fixed in Wine and
> we import that code.
>
> How it should happen (in my opinion). All non-forked DLLs, tools and
> programs must be synced after each Wine minor release. This is going
> to be manual process, so we need a person to organize this process,
> and a few people who could participate in doing actual work (syncers).
>
> What this "team" leader / responsible person should do:
> * Share the work (modules) between syncers.
> * Leave hard-to-sync modules to experienced developers and himself.
> * Ensure all syncers are instructed to do basic testing (running our
> "golden" list of apps - FireFox, AbiWord, mIRC, and testing ole32/
> rpcrt4/widl with a real app which uses OLE mechanism) before
> committing the work.
> * Be aware about syncing dependencies (e.g. when syncing widl, it
> makes sense to sync rpcrt4 simulteneously)
> * Be aware about problematic syncs (like icmp.dll sync, which
> possibly introduces memory corruption, and which is still not fixed
> in Wine).
> * Keep a log of what has been synced, what has not, keep a note of
> all problems.
>
> If that proves to work good, this team may be officially announced as
> "wine syncing team".
>
> There are already at least two successfully working teams this way:
> Bugzilla maintaining (with Amine being the maintainer, and my point
> of contact when I want to complain or ask about something), and
> Testing team (with Olaf being often my point of contact, and
> organizing and doing all the hard work of regress testing, testing
> apps, drivers, real hardware testing and getting results submitted).
> Also, I think those two teams cooperate the best.
>
> I wish we could expand this idea to the Wine syncing team, and get it
> to work that smoothly too, and that cooperative too.
>
>
> With the best regards,
> Aleksey Bragin.
>
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