From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:62131 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752333Ab3F3SeK (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Jun 2013 14:34:10 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([10.1.76.34]) by mrigmx.server.lan (mrigmx002) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M7WSv-1U094Q19FP-00xO5M for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:34:09 +0200 Message-ID: <51D07A27.80509@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:34:15 +0200 From: "P. van Gaans" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: A few wiki ideas (please comment!) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, I have a few ideas for the wiki. They go a bit further than fixing a typo, so I'd first like to discuss the ideas before messing up wiki pages and doing lots of unwanted work. The first is to add a ==Users== section to each device, just above the external links section. For this I already made the following template to use (may need some tweaking, but it's a start): http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Template:Users_who_own_this_device The idea is primarily that whenever a patch is written for the device or another patch that might influence this device it's easier to find contact details for a few users who are willing to test the patch so they can be contacted directly. Most people don't read every message on the mailing list. --- The second idea is a bit more complicated and I'm not even sure the wiki is the right place to do it. While searching for support information for various devices, I noticed that I kept stumbling upon abandoned patches, mostly on the mailing list, for devices that are currently unsupported in v4l-dvb. If I really start to dig in, I'm afraid I'll find at least tens of them. Some of those devices are really attractive. That seems like a waste: we know how the device works, we actually have working code.. But for one reason or another, it's not getting pulled. Maybe the code needs a cleanup. Maybe somebody just forgot to file a pull request. Maybe the code wasn't signed off. AFAIK we currently have no overview of these patches. The idea is to make a wiki page (suggestions for a page title?) that lists the device, links to the available patch(es) or code and lists the reason why the patch hasn't been pulled yet. Best regards, P. van Gaans