Hi (Before anyone notices my email address and gets excited, I am posting here as me and not on behalf of Canonical!)
Daniel Skov Klejnstrup wrote: > > Since it's an ubuntu-project under the ubuntu.com domain, I guess it > > would be canonical... or am I wrong? Anything involving the main servers that currently host Ubuntu services, or a domain name with ubuntu in it (see the Ubuntu trademark policy) would indeed need to be organised with Canonical. > > Let's do something about that! > > And who can that be? - Mark Shuttleworth pointed me to the The official conduit between Canonical and the community is our Community Manager, Jono Bacon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > that the outcome will be used! - There's not much fun in putting 100's > > of hours into this, if it isn't going mainstream! Absolutely. One thing that immediately jumps out at me is that this is currently focussed on Laptop testing. Why? (other than because this is the laptop testing team) The same base could (and I would argue, should) be used to track all manner of hardware. I'm not thinking self-built computers, but off-the-shelf OEM systems. Having said that, before people write a huge amount of PHP or whatever, it would be worth investigating existing projects that this could be an extension of. The specific example which comes to mind is: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/increase-hwdb-participation Ubuntu already ships with a tool which can test various hardware functions (sound, graphics, network, etc) and submit the information without the user having to edit any wiki pages or submit any php forms. It plays a sound and asks "did you hear that?" and they can click Yes/No. Since it's also possible to determine if a machine is a laptop (with some degree of success) it would be possible for the hwdb client to offer additional tests such as suspend/resume, acpi completeness (e.g. a lot of laptops seem to have trouble with battery discharge rate information) I also notice that "laptop certification" is mentioned in the specification for: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/hwdb-overhaul Cheers, -- Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canonical.com -- laptop-testing-team mailing list laptop-testing-team@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
