From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Web forums... Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:59:05 -0500 Message-ID: <1139079546.2791.42.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org It was recently brought to my attention that users are finding and fixing (or at least working around) ALSA bugs in various web forums and completely leaving the ALSA developers out of the loop. One user basically implied that it was common knowledge that if you have $FOO mainboard, then $BAR patch from som random Nvidia forum is needed to get sound working. All news to me. I guess they assume we follow every web forum in existence and know about every ALSA bug ever posted anywhere on the Internet. It seems like a valuable resource (users willing to test this stuff on bleeding edge hardware) is going to waste because they don't even bother to give feedback to the developers. Of course ALSA development isn't moving to some lame web forum, and we obviously don't have the bandwidth to follow 1000 hardware-specific Linux user forums - can anything be done about this problem, other than educating users that web forums are lame? Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642