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.
--- 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it has been replaced by a better system and you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: [email protected]
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