[ros-dev] Wine syncing process

[Aleksey Bragin]

Yes indeed, relevant components should be tested with relevant apps  
using them - e.g. ole32/rpc/widl is best tested with Office 2003  
installer or WordViewer, for example.

Now we need someone to volunteer as a responsible person, who could  
organize this, and keep a list of who is doing what, who has time,  
what was synced, where are problems, etc.

On Mar 30, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Colin Finck wrote:

> Agreed.
> I might sync wininet.dll as long as I have time.
>
> And well, I guess people don't need to do that testing with our  
> golden app
> list for standalone stuff like WordPad or Winhlp32, which has no  
> effects on
> other software.
> I believe that's obvious, but it should be said once ;-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Colin
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org
>> [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] On Behalf Of Aleksey Bragin
>> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 12:18 PM
>> To: ReactOS Development List
>> 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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