From bafd1bfc74fa36964fa2ef9134efcea72c2a25f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alistair Leslie-Hughes Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 14:06:53 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bf4f03c2..537c0149 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -79,4 +79,33 @@ Contributing For information on contributing to Wine-Staging, please see . Note that GitHub pull -requests are strongly dispreferred, especially for patches. \ No newline at end of file +requests are strongly dispreferred, especially for patches. + +Donations +--------- +As many of you may or may not know, wine-staging is a large set of experimental +patches which provide various improvements to WINE, but are not quite suitable for +upstreaming. This set of patches has been continuously managed for many years by +us, a small group of volunteers. The way this works is that we often review patches +attached to various bug reports found at https://bugs.winehq.org/ which may fix bugs, +but may not be quite suitable to be upstreamed due to needing some cleanup or more +proper implementation. In the event that this happens, we add the patches to wine-staging +instead, and keep them updated/maintained as well as attempt to clean them up to be upstreamed. +We also both write and verify patches which fix various bugs that may not have patches, +and in turn allow them run better using WINE. This includes testing on various hardware, +games, and applications. + +As this is a volunteer project which is separate from WINE and CodeWeavers, any expenses +for applications, games, or hardware which we do not own comes out of pocket. This is the +reason this patreon has been created. All of our work is provided publicly for free and can +be found at https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging. We do not expect to be paid for +any of the work provided, as mentioned this project is completely voluntary. However the +proceeds from Patreon are most definitely appreciated, and go towards helping us with +obtaining the various hardware and software mentioned. This in turn allows us to continue +to perform testing, provide fixes, and get them upstreamed, ultimately aiming to provide a +better experience for all WINE users. + + +For anyone interested, wine-staging Patreon can be found here: + +https://www.patreon.com/winestaging \ No newline at end of file