On Sunday, January 09, 2011 19:23:01 CityK wrote: > vincent.mcintyre wrote: > > Thanks for clarifying this. Doesn't this justify a one-line NEWS item? > > I can understand not wanting to mention it while still experimental, but now... > > Last night (well, actually the wee wee hours of this morning), I took > the time to: > - add a news announcement regarding media_build on the front page of the > wiki > - update the > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers > article accordingly Thank you! > I suspect that what has precluded any earlier case of a widely visible > announcement being made, beyond those tidbits that have appeared on the > mailing list, is a combination of: > - the necessity for having someone actually find and take time to > perform such an administrative task > - and, amongst most, a case of general unfamiliarity with the new system > - and, a question of maintainership of the new system and whether or not > its status is still classified as experimental or has reached maturity True. > - and, access rights required to modify the Linuxtv proper website in > regards to these developments That's probably not the reason. The first reason is by far the most important one... > Speaking of time, I've now expended all of mine, and then some (as per > usual), which I can devote to this matter. Hopefully someone can take a > look and correct any mistakes I've made or add any points I've > overlooked on the wiki. As well, hopefully someone else can take care > of the other parts of the website that need to be updated. I hope so too. You don't have to be a developer in order to do wiki work, but it is very much appreciated. So anyone who wants to contribute that way is very welcome! BTW, I hope to be able to discover for which kernels the media_build actually works sometime this week. I'll update the wiki once I know. Adding it to the daily build will probably have to wait until after 2.6.38-rc1 is released. Regards, Hans -- Hans Verkuil - video4linux developer - sponsored by Cisco -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
