From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 2 8:35:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A86A37B401; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:35:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3921143E6A; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 08:35:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b196.otenet.gr [212.205.244.204]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g92FZJdY014531; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:35:49 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g92FYnmM001208; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:34:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g92FXVcx001154; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:33:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:33:31 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Nate Lawson Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Announce: informal quirk maintainer Message-ID: <20021002153331.GA734@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-10-01 13:08, Nate Lawson wrote: > I will be taking ownership of quirk maintenance to help clarify and > expedite things. The goal is to interoperate with as much hardware > as possible while keeping the table attributed and in > well-maintained order. > > Here are a few guidelines: > > 1. All quirks submissions must go through GNATS PR db. This is to > facilitate tracking and archival of discussion. Sounds a nice idea. > 2. A quirk is only needed if the device hangs or refuses to operate > without it. > 3. Please follow the quirk submission guidelines to help things proceed > quickly: > http://www.root.org/~nate/freebsd/quirks.html > 4. Please do not commit quirks directly. > 5. GNATS maintainers should assign quirk-related PRs to njl@ I am unfamiliar with the notion of "quirks", but as long as you or anyone else takes precautions to avoid creating a bottleneck, in case you have to go away for extended periods of time, that's a fine thing. This is all, IMHO, of course. Giorgos. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message