In http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/06/10/people-behind-debian-philipp-kern/, Philipp wrote: > This kind of flag point release is thankfully no longer needed because > our marvellous kernel team now backports certain hardware drivers to > the kernel version in stable. They have some trouble soliciting test > feedback for them, though. It would be cool if more people using > stable could respond to their calls for testing. Reading the above, I've realized that I've seen one such call for testing only once, recently, on Ben's blog [1]. Maybe it's just me and you are already reaching out to users via debian-user or the like (I haven't checked). But I think it would be appropriate to use debian-news for such important calls. No matter how popular Planet is, it tends to be very volatile and not necessarily followed by the kind of public that might help here. If someone could draft a -news text out of [1], the -publicity team could then push it forward. For -publicity, that announcement could also be an occasion to let our users know the way new hw is supported in Debian, for those who have memories of the "and a half" thingie. (I, for one thing, get asked periodically about that.) Thanks for considering, Cheers. [1] http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog/testing-new-hardware-support-for-debian-602.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans everywhere ti resta John Fante -- V. Capossela .......| ..: |.......... -- C. Adams
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