Am Donnerstag, den 01.06.2006, 11:45 +0200 schrieb Alexandre Julliard: > > During the Time, things changed and I get confused more and more times > > about "special Developers" and "other Developers", as well as "special > > Patches" and "other Patches". > > (It's also Possible, that i did not see the big differences before). > > There's no such thing as special developer vs. other developer, it's > more like a linear scale based on trust:
Just a different wording for the same thing. :-) It's the Only way, how it can work. Not only here for accepting Patches, but everywhere for everything in the World. > the more I trust a developer > the easiest it is for him to get his patches committed. The only way > to earn trust points is by submitting consistently good patches. IMHO, modify trust points according the recent coding Area from a Developer can improve the quality of the committed Patches a little bit. To pick up my last Message, Stefan does a great Job for ddraw/dx. The trust for him is so high, that he was hired by Codeweavers. The quoted Patch was IMHO an unusual Coding-Area for him, because it was his first Patch for the regression tests. Another Example is the Testcase for GetPrinter by Dmitry Timoshkov (14. April). I'm working on winspool about a Year now and the Patch from Dmitry was the first one from him in the Area of winspool and winspool/tests for that time. The first view was enough for me to know, that this Test will produce a lot of failures and was never tested on any win9x-system, but is was already in the tree. I asked Markus for renaming sane.gs to winesane.ds and gphoto.gs to winegphoto.ds as well as wine-devel, Emmanuel Millard, Robert Reif and Ken Thomases to use dlls/winmm/winecoreaudio.drv as a starting point for dlls/wineaudio.drv. Both Patches where resend a day after my questions, but without any changes in this area (Over 100k of code). During my re-reading of the winecoreaudio-Patch yesterday, I missed the Part for winecfg/audio.c to extend sAudioDrivers with "coreaudio", but Robert has already send a message about this topic. > That doesn't mean you can't get stuff in if you aren't trusted, but it > means it will require extra scrutiny, which is why it's very important > at the beginning to send small patches that are easy to review. Once > you have earned enough trust you can get away with being a bit more > sloppy (but not too much, or you'll lose trust points again ;-) Another statement that we can use for the wine-dev-guide. Thanks -- By By ... ... Detlef