Re: coordinating efforts wrt rejected patches

I have just added two theming related patches which are bit-rotting.
The patches fix drawing issues but in both cases tests are needed to
prove that they are correct.

Roderick

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Vincent
Povirk<madewokherd+8cd9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some people have expressed interest recently in finding patches that
> have been sent to wine-patches and have not yet been accepted into
> winehq. The hope is that we can put some effort into getting feedback
> to the authors of recent ones, and maybe the old abandoned patches
> will catch the interest of some wandering developers.
>
> Sifting them out from the wine-patches archives is unfortunately not
> trivial. I'm way too lazy to try to create a bot for this, but I
> figure there may be enough interest to do it manually, going through
> the wine-patches messages and searching for similarly-named messages
> in wine-patches and wine-cvs. We just need to make sure we don't
> duplicate effort. If people end up using this information effectively,
> maybe someone will write a bot. If not, well, then it's good no one
> wasted time on it.
>
> To this end, I have created this wiki page:
> http://wiki.winehq.org/RejectedPatches
>
> I've gone through the submissions to wine-patches over one day and
> added the rejected entries to that page, sorted based on whether
> there's been a response.
>
> Anyone is welcome to use/update this information as they see fit and
> to expand the range of checked messages (but not into the future, at
> least until we get another round of commits).
>
> --
> Vincent Povirk
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