Author: Kohn, Rodolfo Date: To: Federico Heinz, Mailing list for the VIA dongle driver hackathon Subject: Re: [Kernel-hackathon] Cri... cri... cri...
I agree :)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Federico Heinz [mailto:fheinz@???]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:11 AM
>To: Mailing list for the VIA dongle driver hackathon
>Cc: Kohn, Rodolfo
>Subject: Re: [Kernel-hackathon] Cri... cri... cri...
>
>On 29/09/2009, Kohn, Rodolfo wrote:
>> I'll be able to take the next steps. My idea is to move to the last
>kernel
>> version (2.6.31.1) if everybody agrees.
>
>Hmmm... I think free software development doesn't really work that way.
>If
>developers were to wait for everybody to agree before they started
>working on
>something, nothing would ever get done. My perception is that people
>simply find something they'd like to do, and get on with it, maybe
>asking
>people to help, and certainly asking for feedback, but not *waiting* on
>consensus (please, Christoph, feel free to tell me I don't know what I'm
>talking about).
>
>But since you asked for feedback... what is the status of the driver?
>What is
>the list of pending features? Does it even work properly already? Of
>course, if
>the wireless API changes a lot in the last version, it may be wise to
>port the
>driver while it's small, so there won't be as much work later. But
>knowing the
>card works would be a great thing, too...
>
>How about creating a Status page in the blog, so people can find out?
>How about
>updating the To-Do list? Those are useful, and might even attract new
>developers...
>
> Fede
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