Re: [RFC patch] MAINTAINERS: encourage testers to volunteer

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:14:24PM -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> 
> Add a new entry-type into MAINTAINERS whereby folks with hardware can 
> volunteer to
> test patches to the driver.  It should encourage folks to put themselves 
> "on the hook"
> in trade for a little bit of notoriety.
> 
> Hopefully this will help improve:
> - support for rare hardware
> - QA on that hardware
> - connections between hackers & testers
> - would-be hackers can find new things to do, esp in less visited parts 
> of the dist.
> 
> Additions should be approved by maintainers etc, but thats no different 
> than is currently done.

There are currently 97 different saa7134 card types supported by the 
kernel. Do we need an entry for each of them (each card type has it's 
own specific support)?

And this information will become outdated much faster than updated
(even the maintainers entries are sometimes outdated).

> --- doc-touches/MAINTAINERS~	2006-09-14 11:50:03.000000000 -0600
> +++ doc-touches/MAINTAINERS	2006-09-14 12:19:13.000000000 -0600
> @@ -80,6 +80,12 @@
> 			it has been replaced by a better system and you
> 			should be using that.
> 
> +V: Validation/Test contact and hardware they can test.
> +
> +	Identifies folks who are willing to test driver patches, etc.
> +	Also can identify lack of hardware for otherwize maintained drivers
> +	by using 'none'
> +
> 3C359 NETWORK DRIVER
> P:	Mike Phillips
> M:	mikep@linuxtr.net

cu
Adrian

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