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