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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 12:34:57 +0100
From: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org>
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On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 15:39:16 -0600
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> wrote:

> One of the reasons people volunteer in open source projects is to
> scratch their personal itch. When that itch develops into a festering,
> gangrenous limb it becomes time to amputate it. That is what I am
> doing with my involvement in x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers.

Sad, but understandable.

> As a result someone will need to work with spock and rej to figure

jer and xarthisius

> out what aspects they are able to maintain and then maintain the
> components they aren't able to. For example, different hardware has
> different series of drivers to support it.

I still happen to run all the hardware to test all of the major versions
currently supported upstream.


     jer