[ros-dev] Wine syncing process

[Aleksey Bragin]

Temporary regression is not a reason to drop an app we used to  
support for years.

On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Cameron Gutman wrote:

> mIRC can't be considered a "golden app" again until the input textbox
> is fixed.
>
> On Mar 30, 2009, at 6:18 AM, Aleksey Bragin <aleksey at reactos.org>  
> wrote:
>
>>    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.