announcement: speakup is in staging

[Al Sten-Clanton]

Thank you for this news.  Thanks to you and the others whose hard work 
doubtless made this much progress possible and will keep the ball 
rolling.  There's a part of me that's saying, "Man, at long, long 
last!!", but that in no way detracts from the quality of your news.

Al

On 10/9/2010 2:52 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
>
> I am pleased to announce that speakup has been accepted into the staging
> portion of the kernel tree.  This means that, starting with linux
> 2.6.37-rc1, speakup should be included in the actual linux kernel, in
> the "staging" drivers.
>
> A staging driver is a driver which is not considered mainline quality,
> but is included in the linux kernel tree to give it more exposure and
> hopefully get it fixed so that it can become mainline.
>
> What this means is we will have the resources of the entire linux
> kernel development community to assist us with getting issues fixed.
>
> This is definitely a good thing, because it brings us closer to
> mainline.
>
> There will be more on this, because it does affect our development
> process and how we will be able to build external modules, etc.
>
> I will post an update once everything is figured out.
>
> William
>
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