Re: GPL vs. sweatshops (was Re: Bias)

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
[...]
> Curiously, though several people suggested I should focus on contributing
> something to Wine instead of just "complaining" to this list, when I later
> suggested that I might be able to contribute with a little help to figure
> out what would be needed, NOBODY stepped up to help me.

Sorry about that. Your offer must have been lost in one of your long
emails or due to the flood of emails.

Finding a way to contribute to Wine was not easy in the past, mnd maybe
still is not that easy. But fortunately that is changing. We now have
multiple task lists in Wine's bugzilla and I am trying to find time to
make them more visible (though progress is slow):

 * Wine 0.9.0 tasklist
   http://bugs.winehq.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=35
 * Tasklist
   http://bugs.winehq.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=395
 * FIXMEs
   http://bugs.winehq.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=455
 * Tasklets
   http://bugs.winehq.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=406

Since you have stated that you are not familiar with the Windows API and
only have limited time, your best bet is to start with items from the
Tasklets list which is pretty much intended for people in your case,
i.e. who are starting with Wine. For instance, you should be able to
make short work of the following:

 * bug 320 - Use a real list for SetConsoleCtrlHandler
   http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=320
 * bug 321 - msvcrt.printf does not support %S & %C
   http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=321
 * bug 556 - Reconcile the Windows and Wine spec files
   http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=556

Do not dismiss out of hand the suggestions made on the How to Contribute
page:
http://www.winehq.com/about/index.php?contrib

It sure needs improvements but we could really use more application
maintainers and people who would like to improve and maintain the
documentation.


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