Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrite: lince and slmodem

[Chris Richards <gizmo@giz-works.com>]

On 02/04/2011 05:24 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> This said, I'd suggest users and developers alike to add themselves (or
> ask to be added) to the metadata.xml files for packages requiring
> specific hardware support, so that even if one maintainer ends up not
> being active, we have a list of people who can actually tell us whether
> a given package works or not.
>
> And don't simply avoid doing so because there is someone else on that
> list already; we don't have a limit of one, two or three people listed
> in metadata.xml. The more people we know are ready to test a given
> package on actual hardware, the better (and you can be listed as "just a
> tester" after all).
What's true of developers is also true of users; a user may add 
themselves to the list, forget they are on it, and a year from now be 
asked to test something they no longer have hardware for.

Not saying that this isn't worth doing, merely pointing out that we may 
discover that we don't have anyone to test even WITH the list of willing 
users.

Later,
Chris