From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 12 09:26:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2D716A419 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:26:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8732313C461 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:26:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from homeKamikaze.norad (nat-wh-1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.72.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF17405C35 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:26:14 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <478887B4.9030906@bsdforen.de> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:26:12 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071203) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <478556AD.6090400@bsdforen.de> <20080110003524.GB5188@soaustin.net> <200801111935.50821.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> In-Reply-To: <200801111935.50821.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Improving the handling of PR:s X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:26:15 -0000 Peter Schuller wrote: > The second, possibly worse effect, is that the original submitter, I believe, > is less inclined to spend more time in the future contributing, if said > submitter feels the work is wasted because no one commits or even comments on > the PR. I can confirm this, one of our members started writing a new driver for the ES1370 sound chip (following the hardware docs), because the current driver has sampling rate and other issues (at least for this user) to this day. To see how commitments are received he sent a one-line patch for the existing driver kern/98167. It was never committed due to lack of further feedback from others and our member stopped developing the driver. Since he explained his patch with stating that the current implementation doesn't follow the HW-specs, I don't think that further testing would have been required to commit it to a developer branch like CURRENT or RELENG.