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.