Whisky is not Dead (Yet), but needs your help
Edit: After talking with Isaacryu, I have decided to fork the project. Development has been pretty minimal in the last year. This post was not well received by Isaacryu and I sincerely meant the best for the project. Due to this I believe the best way forward for this community is to fork the project. When the time comes I'll announce the fork and what it means for the future of gaming on Macs. If this interests you whether you are interested in using the fork or helping out, please leave a comment or DM me. You can also join the discord for development and announcements discord. I'll leave the post below as an archive. Also I'm getting a lot of whack negativity. If you want to use crossovers, fine use it, but don't downvote anyone who thinks otherwise. I'm trying to build a community here and I don't appreciate all the hate I'm getting for it. Despite the critics, the future of free and open source Mac gaming is bright.
Isaacryu (the maintainer of Whisky) has announced that he is mostly stopping feature updates to Whisky. I'd like to see Whisky development continue and support more games, features, and Wine version 9. Also if Whisky meets your needs you can still use it. So no need to fret.
I talked to Isaacryu and PRs are still accepted. If you have experience and are qualified to be a maintainer I would encourage reaching out to isaacryu directly.
I am posting this to rally support for making PRs and tackling the backlog of GitHub issues. It makes me sad to see months old issues of users requesting support. We need people to help provide support. We also need people to improve the number of playable games and software. You can do this by testing, providing debug info, and if you are willing providing steam links to devs so they can test the game. And ofc you can help by contributing code.
Ultimately each of you that uses Whisky has technical knowledge, so please please help the community out when they encounter an error. Github Link
I am not in any way a maintainer of the project, but am just trying to rally more support for it. That being said I'm willing to take the initiative in organizing more support. DMs are open. I'm also on Whisky's official discord.
As we get development moving let us know in the comments what features or games you want to see run. I'd love to get Portal running if that's even possible. I'd also love to see an easier installation process.
Feel free to share this post in any relevant communities. If you know of any devs that would be interested in helping, please contact them.
