From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 9 03:36:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA08035 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 03:36:16 -0800 Received: from inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA08028; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 03:36:11 -0800 Received: from tartufo.pcs.dec.com by inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (5.65/10Aug94) id AA13584; Thu, 9 Feb 95 03:34:04 -0800 Received: by tartufo.pcs.dec.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.16.1 #16.39) id ; Thu, 9 Feb 95 12:33 MET Message-Id: Date: Thu, 9 Feb 95 12:33 MET From: me@tartufo.pcs.dec.com (Michael Elbel) To: jkh@FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using seagate driver with Future Domain 950: :-( Newsgroups: pcs.freebsd.hackers References: <199502081930.UAA00740@yedi.iaf.nl> <17160.792289149@time.cdrom.com> Reply-To: me%dude.pcs.dec.com@inet-gw-2.pa.dec.com Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In pcs.freebsd.hackers you write: >so... *sigh*" Except maybe this time things break, and yet you still >don't know who out there actually HAS one of these things, and so it's >untested and doesn't get found out until 2 days before your release is >due to ship! :-) So, what's necessary isn't exactly an accountant but some sort of *accounting*, just like with the ports. Whoever imports a driver into the source tree should note who it is from and who tested it. If there are problems, that person would be contacted. Now we simply need a conveniant place to put such information, like the LINT config file or the actual driver sources. Michael -- Michael Elbel, Digital-PCS GmbH, Muenchen, Germany - me@FreeBSD.org Fermentation fault (coors dumped)