On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:20:57 -0400 > > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 23:38 +0300, Sergei Steshenko wrote: > >>> My logic is simple: > >>> > >>> * if you are saying that a feature is supported, this means you've > >>> tested it - otherwise you are simply irresponsible. > >> > >> You're assuming that ALSA developers have access to every sound card > >> that ALSA supports which is not the case. (And your tone is insulting > >> as always) > >> > >> Lee > > > > Lee, you taught me STFU - it took several seconds to guess what it was. > > English is not my native language. > > > > So, regarding the tone, you should feel as a talented student's proud > > teacher. > > > > You are deviating from the issues: > > > > Do you, the developers, test the card before announcing it as supported ? > > > > If yes, what the controls for each tested feature are not written down and > > published ? > > > > If no, should we, ALSA end users, consider you, the developers, to be > > responsible > > folks ? > > Oh, quit it. The developers do what they do well. That does NOT mean that > they are good doc writers. If you look at something like Microsoft, the > documentation writers are totally different from the developers. They have > different skills. To ask the developers to write the docs is using people > in their area of incompetence where they will waste huge amounts of time > accomplishng little, whereas they could have in that same time created a > new driver for yet another card. > > Offer to help. Developers are NOT the ones that should be writing the > documentation. They should talk to the doc writers but not be the ones to > do it. So offer to help. > I still don't understand, Can developers write down values of each control they used to test each tested feature ? If the can write 'alsamixer' and display on its window names of controls and their values, whay can't the write names of controls and their values in a text or HTML file. What special skills are need for except for being a little bit literate ? Which they are since writing i n"C" requires it anyway ? -- Visit my http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ open source project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
