Wine, as every other project, is free to set their own rules for
accepting patches.
If members of our development team can do anything to help Wine - we
are glad to. However, they seem to want to stick to only their own
devs' contribution (mainly).
With the best regards,
Aleksey Bragin.
On Aug 29, 2007, at 4:54 PM, theUser BL wrote:
   Personal
preference.
 Wine are nearing to a 1.0 product and are very careful about what
 code
 enters their repository.
 ReactOS does not currently meet their strict policy.
 If you want to get code into Wine, you must submit your patches
 with test
 cases and if required, relevant links to documentation. 
 I have also ask the question on the WINE-mailinglist.
 The answer at
 
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2007-August/058929.html
 looks like, that the test-suites are not the only reason.
 Greatings
 theuserbl