On 02/04/2011 05:24 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
This said, I'd suggest users and developers alike to add themselves (or
ask to be added) to the metadata.xml files for packages requiring
specific hardware support, so that even if one maintainer ends up not
being active, we have a list of people who can actually tell us whether
a given package works or not.
And don't simply avoid doing so because there is someone else on that
list already; we don't have a limit of one, two or three people listed
in metadata.xml. The more people we know are ready to test a given
package on actual hardware, the better (and you can be listed as "just a
tester" after all).
What's true of developers is also true of users; a user may add
themselves to the list, forget they are on it, and a year from now be
asked to test something they no longer have hardware for.
Not saying that this isn't worth doing, merely pointing out that we may
discover that we don't have anyone to test even WITH the list of willing
users.
Later,
Chris
