Re: [ros-dev] Wine syncing process

[Colin Finck]

Agreed.
I might sync wininet.dll as long as I have time.
And well, I guess people don't need to do that testing with our golden app
list for standalone stuff like WordPad or Winhlp32, which has no effects on
other software.
I believe that's obvious, but it should be said once ;-)
Best regards,
Colin
>   -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org
>  [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Aleksey Bragin
>  Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 12:18 PM
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Subject: [ros-dev] Wine syncing process
>         Hello,
>  I'd like to improve the existing situation we have with Wine syncing.
>  Right now, we have a group of people, occasionally doing Wine syncs,
>  and that group of people included me some time ago too.
>  However, date
>  was never really specified, and syncing happens "when someone wants
>  to sync", "before releasing", or when something is fixed in Wine and
>  we import that code.
>  How it should happen (in my opinion). All non-forked DLLs, tools and
>  programs must be synced after each Wine minor release. This is going
>  to be manual process, so we need a person to organize this process,
>  and a few people who could participate in doing actual work (syncers).
>  What this "team" leader / responsible person should do:
>  * Share the work (modules) between syncers.
>  * Leave hard-to-sync modules to experienced developers and himself.
>  * Ensure all syncers are instructed to do basic testing (running our
>  "golden" list of apps - FireFox, AbiWord, mIRC, and testing ole32/
>  rpcrt4/widl with a real app which uses OLE mechanism) before
>  committing the work.
>  * Be aware about syncing dependencies (e.g. when syncing widl, it
>  makes sense to sync rpcrt4 simulteneously)
>  * Be aware about problematic syncs (like icmp.dll sync, which
>  possibly introduces memory corruption, and which is still not fixed
>  in Wine).
>  * Keep a log of what has been synced, what has not, keep a note of
>  all problems.
>  If that proves to work good, this team may be officially
>  announced as
>  "wine syncing team".
>  There are already at least two successfully working teams this way:
>  Bugzilla maintaining (with Amine being the maintainer, and my point
>  of contact when I want to complain or ask about something), and
>  Testing team (with Olaf being often my point of contact, and
>  organizing and doing all the hard work of regress testing, testing
>  apps, drivers, real hardware testing and getting results submitted).
>  Also, I think those two teams cooperate the best.
>  I wish we could expand this idea to the Wine syncing team,
>  and get it
>  to work that smoothly too, and that cooperative too.
>  With the best regards,
>  Aleksey Bragin.
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