From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 12 15:23:10 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 53B7516A419 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:23:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com (relay02.kiev.sovam.com [62.64.120.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E022813C46A for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:23:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from [212.82.216.226] (helo=deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JDiCO-000HZT-D2 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:23:09 +0200 Received: from deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (kostik@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m0CFN37C057337; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:23:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: (from kostik@localhost) by deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m0CFN3cm057336; Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:23:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua: kostik set sender to kostikbel@gmail.com using -f Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:23:03 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov To: Dominic Fandrey Message-ID: <20080112152303.GV57756@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <478556AD.6090400@bsdforen.de> <20080110003524.GB5188@soaustin.net> <200801111935.50821.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> <478887B4.9030906@bsdforen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="5tYp7H6kQ0uP/7P1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <478887B4.9030906@bsdforen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Scanner-Signature: f2683d8df775da069012ccac6e6e6321 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: kostikbel@gmail.com X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1977 [Jan 11 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {TO: local part of email appears in body} X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: not dialup} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Method: Local Lists X-SpamTest-Rate: 9 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 15:23:10 -0000 --5tYp7H6kQ0uP/7P1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 10:26:12AM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Peter Schuller wrote: > > The second, possibly worse effect, is that the original submitter, I be= lieve,=20 > > is less inclined to spend more time in the future contributing, if said= =20 > > submitter feels the work is wasted because no one commits or even comme= nts on=20 > > the PR. >=20 > I can confirm this, one of our members started writing a new driver for t= he > ES1370 sound chip (following the hardware docs), because the current driv= er > 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. >=20 > 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 do= n't > think that further testing would have been required to commit it to a > developer branch like CURRENT or RELENG. Did you read the audit-trail ? I taken the patch, because I though that I have such card. After the truth revealed that I am not, I preferred to not broke support for somebody hardware. If there are other users of the same card, why do not they complain and test the patch ? --5tYp7H6kQ0uP/7P1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHiNtWC3+MBN1Mb4gRAklJAJ9BgrAtjG1FDsN2qu/GmcjUcr0nSQCg14rT v/yo+f84lbQJnfVkpYSLOEY= =plnE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5tYp7H6kQ0uP/7P1--