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eek2121today at 12:30 AM2 repliesview on HN

While I agree that it is amazing work, I feel the need to call out the wine team because, as many likely know, a redditor (admittedly of unknown origin, to me at least) felt the need to go to Valve prior to the wine team. Valve, of course, kicked the PR back over to the wine team, which I actually think is fine. The issue, I think, "may possibly" be the wine team.

The PR was well documented, does not initially appear to be related to AI, and it makes a PITA installer work FFS. Further, my own PRs to wine were accepted for less decades ago and are still in use now.

Forgive the rant, however the redditor in question was scared to send the PR to Wine due to politics. That tells me there is definitely too much middle management in an open source project.


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Philpaxtoday at 6:38 AM

What? What does the behaviour of one random open-source contributor submitting to a downstream fork have to do with the Wine team?

Their post describing their troubles is all procedural, nothing social: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1qdgd73/comme...

skissanetoday at 12:58 AM

I am sure I am not the only person who has no idea what you are talking about. Do you have a link to the PR?

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