wine users - May 2006 - philosophy of cvs/git/wine-patch

Hi,

Since 4 weeks, I'm looking at the different ways to obtain the lastest 
wine. I want to test it and try to find problems with the poor few games 
i have, in order to help developers and wine development too :)

But I don't really understand the differences between cvs, git and 
wine-patches. I think that cvs and git are the same wine "version".
But
for wine-patches, i don't really understand. I know wine-bugs so it is 
naturally that some patches are submitted in wine-patches before going 
to cvs & git. But, when i look at this :
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-patches/2006-May/date.html
I see for example :
"[WINED3D 3/8] Created generate_base_shader() which will be shared 
between pixel and vertex shaders to generate the bulk of the shader string"
Why doesn't i see that modification in cvs or git ? You surely need some 
time to put it in, but is there a way, different that apply each patch 
one per one, to grab the latest tree ? And why it is not automatically 
submit into cvs/git ?
Note that i use archives to view(not download) the progression, not 
directly the mails, so i use for cvs :
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2006-May/date.html
and for git :
http://source.winehq.org/git/?p=wine.git;a=tree + shortlog


A last question : does it exist a system as debian : unstable, testing, 
stable ? Naturally, it may become "stable" when no bugs are submitted 
since some time; i know that we can't affirm that it's perfectly stable.
It is the general idea i want to submit you, i hope you understand me.

Thanks in advance for your reply and sorry for my english, i need more 
practice before i can explain me clearly.

Christophe

Short and easy answer: CVS has the latest tree. git is another way to
access the same tree. wine-patches is for the adventurous.

Longer answer:
CVS and git both give you access to the same source tree, which contains
the latest official wine sources.
If you write a patch for wine, you submit it to wine-patches. It then
may be accepted and merged into the official sources. Alexandre is the
person who decides what goes in and what not. Alexandre has also been on
vacation for more than a month and has just recently returned.
Naturally, he has quite some catching up to do.

Daniel