Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
David Gerard wrote: > Rosanne DiMesio wrote: > >> You should also take a look at the "Debunking Wine Myths" page, particularly >> Myth 6. Touting Office XP as an example of a "fairly new" application that >> works in Wine does not inspire confidence. > > > Sounds like that should be moved to t

Re: spam post on wine-users forum...

2009-07-27 Thread Vitaliy Margolen
Dan Kegel wrote: > What's the procedure for dealing with forum spam like > http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=5655 > ? Delete the post, that's all we can do. Can't ban any user (not like it will work anyway, most spam comes from disposable accounts). So far it hasn't been all that bad, few s

spam post on wine-users forum...

2009-07-27 Thread Dan Kegel
What's the procedure for dealing with forum spam like http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=5655 ?

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Jeremy Newman wrote: > Scott Ritchie wrote: >> I'm also trying to cleanup anything that suggests our website hasn't >> been updated in 5 years. That means, for instance, removing the link to >> the interviews that are all from 5 years ago ;) > > I do not think we should remove/hide the links to o

Re: [2/5] ntdll/tests: Implement tests for data execution prevention.

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Karcher
Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 13:28 +0900 schrieb Dmitry Timoshkov: > > The tests will be skipped on Wine until next patch, as the > > not-yet-implemented > > NtQueryInformationProcess(...,ProcessExecuteFlags,...,...) > > call is used to detect a DEP-capable platform. > These tests should added to ex

Re: [1/5] ntdll: Fix ProcessExecuteFlag logic

2009-07-27 Thread Michael Karcher
Am Montag, den 27.07.2009, 13:24 +0900 schrieb Dmitry Timoshkov: > "Michael Karcher" wrote: > > The meaning of "enable" is the same in Windows and Wine: it enables the > > execute permission, not the data execution prevention. > JFYI, I based my original patch on the information at > http://www.u

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Jeremy Newman
Scott Ritchie wrote: I'm also trying to cleanup anything that suggests our website hasn't been updated in 5 years. That means, for instance, removing the link to the interviews that are all from 5 years ago ;) I do not think we should remove/hide the links to old articles like our interviews.

Re: RFC XRender add support for dibsections in more color depths

2009-07-27 Thread Roderick Colenbrander
Hi, This version should hopefully fix your issues. I hope it also fixes other gc issues .. I'm not sure if the patch is correct yet though. Roderick On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Matej Spindler wrote: > Roderick Colenbrander wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> This is an updated version of my patch.

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread David Gerard
Rosanne DiMesio wrote: > You should also take a look at the "Debunking Wine Myths" page, particularly > Myth 6. Touting Office XP as an example of a "fairly new" application that > works in Wine does not inspire confidence. Sounds like that should be moved to the wiki. Documents probably belon

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Rosanne DiMesio wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:08:53 -0700 > Scott Ritchie wrote: > >> I'm also going to give the text on some of the content pages a focused >> rewrite. The About page and many of it's links are fairly wordy at the >> moment. I want to avoid losing any users who may potentiall

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Remco wrote: > Small suggestion from me: > > On the index page, change "Information" into "About". > > * About is a keyword used in many apps that means: "info about this program" > * The icon already tells you it's information. > * "Information" is very broad. Most of the site is information. >

Re: Spotted on Reddit's frontpage [ wine-patches the black hole of code? ]

2009-07-27 Thread Kai Blin
On Monday 27 July 2009 13:08:44 Scott Ritchie wrote: > First the patchwatcher tool told them their first patch broke the test > suite on a platform they didn't think of. Probably doable, once we get patchwatcher back up. > Then their second patch, > which passed, was put on a landing page where

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Austin English
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Scott Ritchie wrote: > 2) Remove the unmaintained porting status page: > http://www.winehq.org/status/porting  - I don't believe this data is > useful to anyone, and if it is it should be imported into the wiki so it > can actually be updated. Not sure if it's usef

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Rosanne DiMesio
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:08:53 -0700 Scott Ritchie wrote: > > I'm also going to give the text on some of the content pages a focused > rewrite. The About page and many of it's links are fairly wordy at the > moment. I want to avoid losing any users who may potentially dismiss us > as amateurish

Re: Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Remco
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Scott Ritchie wrote: > Lately I've been attempting to polish up the content on our website. > The visual design looks great since the revamp a while back, however a > lot of the actual words trouble me.  There's a lot of stuff from the > dark ages still lurking arou

Re: Help resources for wine-users mailing list

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Frédéric Delanoy wrote: > Over and over, I see help requests on wine-users with responses like > "installed latest wine", "read FAQ section x.y", ... > > Wouldn't it be useful to send a regular reminder (like every month, and on > subscription)? > This would contain: > - how to upgrade to latest

Re: Spotted on Reddit's frontpage [ wine-patches the black hole of code? ]

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > "Damjan Jovanovic" wrote: > >> Think Wine doesn't accept patches easily, and it's hard to get >> feedback? Think again. > > I think it's not worth an effort to take seriously one post of > apparently clueless anonymous user and a forward to wine-devel > of another anony

Re: Spotted on Reddit's frontpage [ wine-patches the black hole of code? ]

2009-07-27 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
"Damjan Jovanovic" wrote: Think Wine doesn't accept patches easily, and it's hard to get feedback? Think again. I think it's not worth an effort to take seriously one post of apparently clueless anonymous user and a forward to wine-devel of another anonymous user. We've been through this "mai

Re: RFC XRender add support for dibsections in more color depths

2009-07-27 Thread Matej Spindler
Roderick Colenbrander wrote: Hi all, This is an updated version of my patch. It should fix the XChangeGC crash but the text color issue in that japanese game is still around. I hope to receive some more feed back. Roderick Hi Roderick With this patch Room Arranger crashes with: X Error of

Re: Spotted on Reddit's frontpage [ wine-patches the black hole of code? ]

2009-07-27 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:09 AM, nn wrote: > > Spotted on Reddit's frontpage > > wine-patches the black hole of code? > > http://kazade.livejournal.com/2451.html > > >       > > Access Yahoo!7 Mail on your mobile.

Cleaning up the winehq.org website

2009-07-27 Thread Scott Ritchie
Lately I've been attempting to polish up the content on our website. The visual design looks great since the revamp a while back, however a lot of the actual words trouble me. There's a lot of stuff from the dark ages still lurking around that we don't actually want users to see. Accordingly, I'v