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On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 10:56:24PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> This PR brings up an issue that has been mentioned elsewhere in this
> thread: Even where a PR contains a patch, a committer may be unwilling
> to commit the change because they are unable to verify the patch
> themselves.

We need to generate some kind of way for people to volunteer to test
some of these patches.  e.g. "I am willing to test patches affecting
the USB subsystem, and I have the following list of parts: ..."

mcl