From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2A1X8pK021265 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 01:33:08 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.41] helo=ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D9CY0-0005bM-2E for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 01:33:08 +0000 Received: from [192.168.9.101] (cpe-66-25-88-87.satx.res.rr.com [66.25.88.87]) by ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id j2A1X58H012341 for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:33:05 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <422F923C.2000303@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:18:04 -0600 From: Daniel Goller User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050304) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please follow keywording policy References: <20050308185536.58ecbe3c@enterprise.weeve.org> <422EA7E2.4040206@gentoo.org> <422EFCA6.2010607@gentoo.org> <422F0D2E.1040301@gentoo.org> <20050309162258.624316be@snowdrop> <422F3482.8020607@gentoo.org> <20050309183846.426af19a@snowdrop> <422F46F3.4030208@gentoo.org> <422F7F4B.4090406@gentoo.org> <422F8666.80400@gentoo.org> <422F99BD.8090509@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <422F99BD.8090509@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig9B9B581CB6DD1D01B7130C9A" X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 0ad0f8bd-4f5c-4c58-96ee-b868b44832c1 X-Archives-Hash: 7591d2014945dba1cf0d139ade7fb168 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig9B9B581CB6DD1D01B7130C9A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list Amen to that. --------------enig9B9B581CB6DD1D01B7130C9A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCL5JCUpKYMelfdYERAvA6AJ9F7h9xFGtJx6KOQuHGXrRRI4szLQCeMnTk XtSzMXTLildM74h16gwkE1k= =y8Gs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig9B9B581CB6DD1D01B7130C9A-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list