WWN Issue 377

This is the 377th issue of the World Wine News publication. Its main goal is to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code, but it can optionally use native system DLLs if they are available. You can find more info at www.winehq.org

This week, 131 posts consumed 310 K. There were 23 different contributors. 14 (60%) posted more than once. 11 (47%) posted last week too.

The top 5 posters of the week were:

9 posts in 21K by stefandoesinger at gmail.com (Stefan Dösinger)
6 posts in 6K by julliard at winehq.org (Alexandre Julliard)
6 posts in 8K by hverbeet at gmail.com (Henri Verbeet)
4 posts in 8K by mstefani at redhat.com (Michael Stefaniuc)
3 posts in 2K by nsivov at codeweavers.com (Nikolay Sivov)

Idea for a Wine staging tree	Archive
Michael Müller (known from the Pipelight project) wrote to wine-devel about a possible staging tree for Wine. There was much response on this controversal topic including some improvement suggestions.

Weekly AppDB/Bugzilla Status Changes

Archive

AppDB / Bugzilla Bugzilla Changes:

Category	Total Bugs Last Issue	Total Bugs This Issue	Net Change
UNCONFIRMED	3702	3682	-20
NEW	3665	3661	-4
ASSIGNED	15	15	0
REOPENED	118	117	-1
RESOLVED	203	228	+25
CLOSED	29620	29661	+41
TOTAL OPEN	7500	7475	-25
TOTAL	37323	37364	+41

AppDB Application Status Changes

*Disclaimer: These lists of changes are automatically generated by information entered into the AppDB. These results are subject to the opinions of the users submitting application reviews. The Wine community does not guarantee that even though an application may be upgraded to 'Gold' or 'Platinum' in this list, that you will have the same experience and would provide a similar rating.

Updates by App Maintainers

Application	Old Status/Version	New Status/Version	Change
Arcanum 1.0.74 + uap081229 + highres11a	Gold (1.7.22)	Platinum (1.7.28)	+1
Battlefield 1942 1.6x	Gold (1.7.22)	Platinum (1.7.28)	+1
Dead Island 1.3	Gold (1.7.22)	Platinum (1.7.28)	+1
Dead Island Riptide 1.4.0 (via Steam)	Gold (1.7.22)	Platinum (1.7.28)	+1
Dead Space 2 Retail & Digital from EA Store	Gold (1.7.22)	Platinum (1.7.28)	+1
StarCraft II Current	Garbage (1.7.27)	Platinum (1.7.28)	+4
Age of Empires II The Age of Kings: Demo	Silver (1.7.25)	Gold (1.7.26)	+1
Age of Empires II The Conquerors Expansion	Platinum (1.6.2)	Gold (1.7.26)	-1
Battle City Remake 2004 Competition	Platinum (1.7.14)	Gold (1.7.27)	-1
Total Change			+8

Updates by the Public

Application	Old Status/Version	New Status/Version	Change
Mirror's Edge 1.01	Gold (1.6.1)	Platinum (1.7.27)	+1
Torchlight II Steam version	Garbage (1.7.23)	Platinum (1.7.25)	+4
Battle.net App Stable	Gold (1.7.22)	Bronze (1.7.27)	-2
Guild Wars 2 Release Client	Silver (1.7.19)	Bronze (1.7.27)	-1
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Stable	Gold (1.6.2)	Garbage (1.7.28)	-3
StarCraft II Current	Platinum (1.7.22)	Garbage (1.7.27)	-4
Tomb Raider (2013) Steam	Silver (1.7.26)	Garbage (1.7.27)	-2
Total Change			-7