From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: This comes from a discussion on memo-list on how to improve the efficiency of the Hardware Certification Program. While only an idea at this point, I am submitting this here for further effort. Given: 1. Hardware compatibility certification costs RH money, but 2. If markets exist, it is worth the effort to certify given hardware Idea: 1. Use RHN to poll the platform, driver, peripheral information profiles available. 2. When platforms are entered that contain uncertified elements, RHN can return 'warning: hardware XYZ is unsupported. Would you like to go to the hardware certification home page?' 3a. The hardware cert. home page contains lists of unsupported hardware that has come in from RHN. Once there, the submitter can view certified substitutes, known bugs, and 'stability' ratings (drawn from others with similar hardware) 3b. Users can also submit 'votes' for hardware that they would like to see certified. 3c. Red Hat gathers important information on which uncertified hardware is being registered, and can actively solicit 'votes' from those owners on which hardware is most important. This data is useful to both browbeat the hardware vendor to provide certification, or to justify RH's own hardware certification. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info:
Reassigning bugs from gdk (old RHN engineering Manager) to tsanders (current RHN engineering manager)