Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-04-10 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Marcus Meissner wrote: > Also Alexandre to some parts comments on bad patches these days. :) If by 'bad patches' you mean patches in the rejected state that's not the subject of this thread. -- Dmitry.

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-04-10 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 04:52:42PM +0900, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > Jeff Latimer wrote: > > > I agree a lot of developers would benefit from feedback, however that > > does not appear to be the Wine way of doing business. Maybe a halfway > > measure would be to automatically notify the developer

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-04-10 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Jeff Latimer wrote: > I agree a lot of developers would benefit from feedback, however that > does not appear to be the Wine way of doing business. Maybe a halfway > measure would be to automatically notify the developer that their patch > has been marked as pending and then the developer can as

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-04-09 Thread Jeff Latimer
On 09/04/12 16:50, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote: > It should be in the best ineterests of the project to provide as much > feedback as possible, and should improve not only amount of accepted > code (by encouraging developers provide more > comments/explanations/tests/etc. and more actively discuss possi

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-04-08 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Jerome Leclanche wrote: > I think the general feeling is that Pending should be renamed to "Decision > pending" and that more feedback is needed at least in the form of "this is > the wrong approach" or "this may be the right approach, explain yourself > better". But the general feeling is that "

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-03-30 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Alexandre Julliard wrote: > > WM_SHOWWINDOW at the start and at the end of every message sequence > > means that ShowWindow() should be used to hide and show the window > > during SetParent call processing. > > That's the sort of explanation you should have included in your > patch, instead of e

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-03-28 Thread Jerome Leclanche
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Michael Stefaniuc writes: > > >> The pending state is feedback. It means that the patch is not clearly > > yes, but the worst possible feedback. > > > > New people assume you or the area maintainer need to still make up their > > mind

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-03-28 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Michael Stefaniuc writes: >> The pending state is feedback. It means that the patch is not clearly > yes, but the worst possible feedback. > > New people assume you or the area maintainer need to still make up their > mind on the patch but that's not the case, it is a done deal. Not necessarily.

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-03-28 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Alexandre Julliard wrote: > > WM_SHOWWINDOW at the start and at the end of every message sequence > > means that ShowWindow() should be used to hide and show the window > > during SetParent call processing. > > That's the sort of explanation you should have included in your > patch, instead of e

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-03-28 Thread Michael Stefaniuc
atches >> in the pending state, especially if they already contain the tests and >> main developer in the area I'm changing is Alexandre :). >> >> Is it possible to get at least some feedback for pending patches? Pretty >> please? > > The pending state is f

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-03-28 Thread Alexandre Julliard
Dmitry Timoshkov writes: > I'm sorry, but that's not a feedback, and casual contributors may even > not be aware of that patch tracking page. And as I mentioned if the patch > already contains the tests it's not really obvious what should be added > in addition. In the light of recent discussions

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-03-28 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
Alexandre Julliard wrote: > The pending state is feedback. It means that the patch is not clearly > correct, but that it's complicated to articulate exactly why. Like it > says, you should try to make it more convincing, either by simplifying > the patch, or writing a test case. I'm sorry, but t

Re: 'Pending' patches state

2012-03-28 Thread Alexandre Julliard
eloper in the area I'm changing is Alexandre :). > > Is it possible to get at least some feedback for pending patches? Pretty > please? The pending state is feedback. It means that the patch is not clearly correct, but that it's complicated to articulate exactly why. Like it says, yo

'Pending' patches state

2012-03-27 Thread Dmitry Timoshkov
silent case of 'Reject', but without any obligation to explain why. I find myself on somewhat shaky ground when I see a bunch of my patches in the pending state, especially if they already contain the tests and main developer in the area I'm changing is Alexandre :). Is it pos

Pending patches

2004-07-07 Thread Ge van Geldorp
Last week I submitted the following patches: http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2004/06/0227.html (dlls/commdlg "old style" file dialogs - take 2) and http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-patches/2004/06/0276.html (dlls/shell32 RestartDialog and RestartDialogEx) Is there any particula