Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote:
I see the value of wine-staging in making patches more readily available to users, and I understand that the process of getting patches committed can be frustrating. But I don't think splitting the developers community is the answer.
Main difference between wine-staging and winehq is that staging maintainers are actually interested to get the patches in to fix the bugs, and they do a lot not only to improve the patches created by somebody else, but also actively communicate with the patch authors. winehq behaviour on that regard is plain simple: silently reject or mark the patch as pending without any communication effort. If you take onto account number of staging patches and that staging maintainers do their job in their free time without getting paid that tells quite a bit about motivation in improving wine on both sides.