On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 8:49 PM Steve deRosier <derosier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 5:59 AM Krishna Chaitanya > <chaitanya.mgit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Either way looks like the website text needs an update, as customers > > just refers to that expect to match reality. > > > > "customers"? I'm sorry, but did you PAY money to use hostapd? To the > actual maintainers? > > There is a misconception that keeps happening; I saw it on the > linux-wireless list a couple of days ago. Often people who use > open-source software seem to think that just because they USE it means > that they can make DEMANDS on maintainers. Maintainers are volunteers. > The vast majority of which are not paid to do this work in any way. > Sometimes their paid job in the past included some work that was in > the area of what they maintain, but as often happens, they keep the > maintainership up long after it is nothing but an interest. And > demands make it an unpleasant thing to keep working on. This is how > we keep losing maintainers. Woah, where did this come from, I am not demanding anything from anyone. This response is completely misplaced, attention seeking and out of proportion "Customers" was used to give a context as to why the numbers are important. > > And furthermore, have you EVER seen documentation that actually > matches reality? In my experience, it's usually out-of-date within > moments of when it gets posted. Of course not, that is what I am trying to fix, as I cannot fix the website myself, started a discussion as we are supposed to. > > Please feel free to do the work to figure out the correct figures > (keeping in mind that of course it will be different on different > architectures, configurations, and even compilers) and submit a patch > against the website text. I'm sure the maintainers would be thrilled > to update it if someone did so. If you had taken the time to read my full e-mail, you can see I did the work and wanted to Share and confirm with the community. Patches aren't applicable to the website, they are for the sources. One would just start a thread in the forum and conclude before even attempting to do anything. _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
