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SubjectRe: [RFC patch] MAINTAINERS: encourage testers to volunteer
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 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)?

It's utterly sufficient to know about only one person, who have that piece of
hardware in most cases -- to test the core of the driver, not all specific
parts. Something like to test it at least roughly.

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 And this information will become outdated much faster than updated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 (even the maintainers entries are sometimes outdated).

When akpm proposed this, I agreed (but still have no contacts to post a patch),
because I needed somebody to test a driver I had rewritten a little bit, but
there was no place to take a look...
But his thoughts were a little bit different, he considered creating a separate
file named TESTERS and there have a list of these "qa people" (even for one
specific piece of hw if necessary). [I hope I did understand him correctly...]

>> --- 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 it has been replaced by a better system and you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

regards,
--
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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