On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Dan Hipschman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 06:30:17PM -0600, Erich Hoover wrote: > > Honestly, I believe that this problem illustrates the need for these kind > of > > bugs - if I had found a bug for WinHttp in bugzilla assigned to Zac then > I > > could easily contact him. I do not have time to monitor wine-devel in > order > > keep track of what everyone is working on so that I can keep from > stepping > > on people's toes. Wine is not my full time job, and I think it is > > unreasonable to expect people to keep track of this kind of off-the-tree > > activity without some sort of database like bugzilla to keep track of who > is > > doing what. As I'm sure other people do, I only have time to do work on > > Wine when I'm on my vacation. > > I agree with others in that bugs saying such and such DLL need to be > implemented are redundant. Wine development is very app-driven in that > we focus on fixing particular apps instead of willy-nilly deciding to > work on DLL X today. It gives priority to bugs which will help the most > people (depending on the popularity of the app), and makes it easier to > chart progess (M apps run well is a better metric than N DLLs are > implemented). > I agree that the title of the bug indicated as such, I was not aware that being generic like this was against some sort of unwritten policy. However, the comment specifically targeted the Red Alert 3 Beta as much as possible, since it failed immediately after WinHttpOpen. > > There are already some bugs in the tracker for winhttp (eg, 14381). To > help out the most, please add bugs for the other apps you've mentioned > that fail to run (assuming they aren't already in bugzilla, I didn't > check). You could also write test cases for winhttp. This is a good > way to get people started on implementing it. To see who is currently > active in a particular area, you can search the mailing lists, or look > at the git logs for the files, or check if there's a recent copyright on > any of them. Bugs often don't get assigned to anybody. Wine is > developed by a lot of otherwise unrelated people, so bugs usually just > get fixed by whoever happens to be interested in them. > The copyright on the winhttp "main.c" is in 2007 and is just stubs, otherwise i would have more actively checked the mailing lists. The other bugs in bugzilla did not appear to necessarilly be relevant, so I made a new one. Since I'm now aware that there's someone already interested in WinHttp, I plan on doing what I can to help them get things working for RA3 so it will work by the time it comes out.
