Hi,
I have a few ideas for the wiki. They go a bit further than fixing a
typo, so I'd first like to discuss the ideas before messing up wiki
pages and doing lots of unwanted work.
The first is to add a ==Users== section to each device, just above the
external links section. For this I already made the following template
to use (may need some tweaking, but it's a start):
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Template:Users_who_own_this_device
The idea is primarily that whenever a patch is written for the device or
another patch that might influence this device it's easier to find
contact details for a few users who are willing to test the patch so
they can be contacted directly. Most people don't read every message on
the mailing list.
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The second idea is a bit more complicated and I'm not even sure the wiki
is the right place to do it. While searching for support information for
various devices, I noticed that I kept stumbling upon abandoned patches,
mostly on the mailing list, for devices that are currently unsupported
in v4l-dvb. If I really start to dig in, I'm afraid I'll find at least
tens of them. Some of those devices are really attractive.
That seems like a waste: we know how the device works, we actually have
working code.. But for one reason or another, it's not getting pulled.
Maybe the code needs a cleanup. Maybe somebody just forgot to file a
pull request. Maybe the code wasn't signed off. AFAIK we currently have
no overview of these patches.
The idea is to make a wiki page (suggestions for a page title?) that
lists the device, links to the available patch(es) or code and lists the
reason why the patch hasn't been pulled yet.
Best regards,
P. van Gaans
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