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Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> | Nobody is asking you to drop your job. However, what people are saying |
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> | is if you don't have hardware, then how can you properly maintain a |
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> | driver for it? If I didn't have any mips machines, how could I be a |
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> | member of the mips team? Instead of trying to maintain a bunch of |
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> | drivers that you can't test, why don't you recruit some more devs for |
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> | the dialup herd who do have such hardware? You can create a team that |
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> | coordinates through you to ensure good QA for these drivers. |
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> There is a fairly common case that a package exists that Gentoo _should_ |
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> have in the tree, but those people with the hardware are unable to |
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> become devs because of time commitments or other reasons. I see no |
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> reason a dev can't collaborate with a non-dev on testing packages. |
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Amen to that. |
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